Up until about a hundred years ago, it was typical for a college-bound student to have already received several years of education (at least 4 if not more) in Greek and Latin, and a modern foreign language or two. This education would continue into college, possibly adding another modern foreign language. This is in addition to history, sciences and other subjects.
Then things started to decline. Here we are today and Latin and Greek are mostly nowhere to be found. Many colleges require 4 years of a foreign language but even that has weakened.
Yes, today we need to put effort into computer science and modern subjects, but overall there seems be a much less complete education than years ago, even though Latin and Greek form such a broad foundation for the other subjects that we study.
This article written by a Columbia College sophomore, is proposing bringing back the requirement to learn Greek and Latin in college rather than (or possibly in addition to) a modern foreign language. He makes a number of great points.
I'm all for it. I regret not having studied Latin and Greek and now I feel like I have to go back and make up for lost time.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Thursday, December 04, 2008
A Few Pimsleur Updates
Here are just a few updates on Pimsleur. Simon and Schuster has been consistently expanding their product line. Hungarian I (Comprehensive), Romanian I (Comprehensive) and Greek II are all recent additions.
When they finally add a comprehensive level product for a language, they also add a Quick and Simple or Basic level product (the first 8 lessons of Comprehensive) and an Instant Conversation (the first 16 lessons of comprehensive). The Instant Conversation is usually for a pretty good price considering for about $50 you get half of the $200+ Comprehensive set. But, if you want that full 30 lessons, you have to pay for it. That's why I think Instant Conversation is a (relatively) cost-effective intro to the language and the Pimsleur method.
Upcoming Comprehensive products include Croatian (Jan 2009), Eastern Arabic III (May 2009) and Hebrew III (July 2009).Here is a link to another reviewers thought son Pimsleur Spanish : http://gearheart.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/learn-spanish-with-pimsleur-a-review/
When they finally add a comprehensive level product for a language, they also add a Quick and Simple or Basic level product (the first 8 lessons of Comprehensive) and an Instant Conversation (the first 16 lessons of comprehensive). The Instant Conversation is usually for a pretty good price considering for about $50 you get half of the $200+ Comprehensive set. But, if you want that full 30 lessons, you have to pay for it. That's why I think Instant Conversation is a (relatively) cost-effective intro to the language and the Pimsleur method.
Upcoming Comprehensive products include Croatian (Jan 2009), Eastern Arabic III (May 2009) and Hebrew III (July 2009).Here is a link to another reviewers thought son Pimsleur Spanish : http://gearheart.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/learn-spanish-with-pimsleur-a-review/
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