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Meeting with Dan Alexe and his new volume, "Babel. In the beginning was the word". The author's dialogue partners at this book launch are Rodica Zafiu and Radu Paraschivescu. "The origin of language has always fascinated humanity, in all cultures. However, the mystery of that origin remains total, which does not prevent us from addressing it here, in this book which is nothing more than a playful initiation into the science of linguistics and in which we try to cleanse this mystery of the origin of human language and the classification of languages from the lush vegetation of popular myths and preconceived ideas. This is also a book that will teach you that, if you did so, you did wrong by abandoning, at a young age, the study of French (or Russian, German, etc.) or another language for which you felt you had a vocation, but were discouraged by rigid teachers, who in turn had been traumatized by their tyrannical and contemptuous predecessors and who only conveyed to you the belief that the endless and apparently useless diversity of languages is a punishment and a torment. You will also find out here what is the best method for learning a foreign language (or more, however many); why Romanian owes nothing to Russian; or what is the most satisfactory classification of the languages spoken on the planet, imaginable or possible.” — DAN ALEXE Find the book in bookstores and online. And on #Libhumanitas here: https://www.libhumanitas.ro/babel-la-...