I'm reading a biography on Erasmus, and he lived in England, had pupils there, made friends and visited the archbishop of Canterbury and even the king, not spea

I'm reading a biography on Erasmus, and he lived in England, had pupils there, made friends and visited the archbishop of Canterbury and even the king, not speaking English. He taught his pupils in Latin. English, or Dutch for that matter, was not a proper language. So Latin wouldn't be really alive, but also not dead. It was still a second language to more than a few as late as the 16th century.