20 août 2018
Sara Brennan, « Occitan is not dead, macarel! A week of living in the language at the Escòla Occitana d’Estiu », Revitaliser l'occitan dans la nouvelle Occitanie, ID : 10670/1.3jrx9v
Last Sunday, after a plane, a train, and a bus, I arrived in Villeneuve-sur-Lot for the 44th annual Escòla Occitana d’Estiu (Occitan Summer School). Several people I met during fieldwork had highly recommended this weeklong residential programme so I enrolled in the intensive introductory language course in the Languedocien dialect, which promised a somewhat daunting six hours a day of Occitan classes to help jumpstart my language learning (more on the course in a later post). Not having any ...