Latin used to be required coursework for those who were on an academic track (college bound) when I was in junior high school back in the early 60’s. Not sure what happened.
-William Gardner Hale, professor of Latin at Cornell many moons ago, put out a nice piece: The Art of Reading Latin. I have read it and it contains immense wisdom regarding the learning of another language.
How much of what he says is also applicable to Greek?
I agree with Lee: Why not “Let Them Learn Greek?”
The older approach was to start w/ Latin and thence to Greek, which is Latin w/funny letters.
Once one has Latin one has the structure of Latin one also has the structure of Greek.
Thank you for this post!
Robert W. McDowell,
Past President (1968-69), Indiana Junior Classical League.
I wish someone would have been interested in teaching me Latin.
Latin may be a dead language, but it is still used for some modern literature. I saw a Harry Potter book in Latin at a Barnes and Noble. I could understand enough to read that it said Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and not Sorcerer’s Stone.
Latin used to be required coursework for those who were on an academic track (college bound) when I was in junior high school back in the early 60’s. Not sure what happened.
-William Gardner Hale, professor of Latin at Cornell many moons ago, put out a nice piece: The Art of Reading Latin. I have read it and it contains immense wisdom regarding the learning of another language.
It’s here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=HB0BAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=William+gardner+Hale&ei=0fthSvT-M6eQyATgsby_DQ
How much of what he says is also applicable to Greek?
I agree with Lee: Why not “Let Them Learn Greek?”
The older approach was to start w/ Latin and thence to Greek, which is Latin w/funny letters.
Once one has Latin one has the structure of Latin one also has the structure of Greek.
Thank you for this post!
Robert W. McDowell,
Past President (1968-69), Indiana Junior Classical League.
I wish someone would have been interested in teaching me Latin.
Latin may be a dead language, but it is still used for some modern literature. I saw a Harry Potter book in Latin at a Barnes and Noble. I could understand enough to read that it said Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and not Sorcerer’s Stone.