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From: "Brennus Legranus" <brennus@legranus.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Language requirements
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:15:08 -0000
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Perhaps you should also have added, "and the people themselves", which
can only be achieved through a fluent knowledge of the language.

----- Original Message -----
From: Maire Lawry <moira@wcox.com>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: 24 March 2000 03:29
Subject: Re: Language requirements


> > I'm afraid that this definition of the objectives of language
study leaves
> > out at least one important objective, one that overarches the
others in
> > fact: the reason for "reading, writing, etc." in the language is
to learn
> > more intimately the culture of those who spoke/speak/write/wrote
the
> > language.
>
> Perhaps I should have added "inter alia"
>
>
> >  Let us not sell the study of
> > classical languages short
>
> I don't believe that pointing out one of the shortcomings of dead
languages vs modern
> languages qualifies as "selling the study of classical languages
short."   Many people
> who study Latin go on to become fluent in a modern language, but
nothing in Latin
> prepares you for struggling with immediate verbal responses, trying
to express complex
> thoughts, or straining to understand a native speaker in a language
you are still
> learning.  Few Americans have had this experience.
>
>

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