Sentences with phrase «learn dead languages»

If one purpose of seminary is to help prepare students to «go into all the world and preach the gospel» it seems that learning the languages of «all the world» might better prepare us to do that then learning dead languages that nobody speaks any longer.

In the novel, only twelve people, including Margie, enroll in Simon Mellinkoff's Latin class because learning a dead language seems a bit like an exercise in futility to the average undergrad.

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In this conversation with those who being dead yet speak we learn the logic as well as the language of the community that centers in God.

Another reason for these dating services is the languagebarrier.For a very long time, Russia was a closed border countryand even when Russians learned English at school, withoutthe ability to practice the use of the language on a dailybasis, English was basically a dead language and these agencies also became translators.