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In the auditorium of the Departmental Archives, avenue Victor-Hugo in Rodez, around a hundred people gathered to try their hand at dictation in the Occitan language.
It has become a little Aveyron tradition. For more than 25 years now, many budding felibres have been getting together to try their hand at dictating in Occitan. “The opportunity to bring the language to life”rejoices the Institute of Occitan Studies (IEO) of Aveyron, which is organizing the event alongside the Department.
So, around a hundred participants went to the auditorium of the Departmental Archives, avenue Victor-Hugo in Rodez yesterday, to try their hand at the exercise. On the program, two different dictations, one for the schoolchildren, when the older ones were entitled to an extract fromStory of a wild boy by Aveyron author Serge Carles. Because many children populated the assembly when it was time to take their pens in hand. A reason for hope for Occitanists who wish to perpetuate the langue d'oc. “This is thanks to the implementation of bilingual French-Occitan learning in more and more schools”rejoices Christian Andrieu, member of the IEO and gentleman dictator of the day. The opportunity for him, a teacher, to highlight the importance of learning several languages from an early age. “Bilinguals have more skilled brains, which make it easier to learn languages”he summarizes, he who hopes with this to be heard by as many people as possible.
