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To: Rambi who wrote (73658)	2/2/2000 9:30:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Before you climb off the soapbox, here's a wild round of applause!!!!!!!

To: Rambi who wrote (73658)	2/2/2000 9:31:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 108807

You are correct. Indispensable for omnis oratio. And the SAT's. I remember words mainly, making me no garrula lingua.

To: Rambi who wrote (73658)	2/2/2000 9:38:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Latin is wonderful. I had four years in high school, I only wish I remembered it better. It helped me enormously on praticums- because I had an easier time remembering the scientific names for things. I only wish I had paid more attention. My Latin teacher was the most wonderful woman. Mrs. Cline. She led the Latin club- and had all the parties at her house. And we had a toga party every year (she made the togas and gave them to her students each year to wear). I was very sorry to learn (recently) that she had died. I hope there are more where she came from.

To: Rambi who wrote (73658)	2/2/2000 9:40:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

I took French in school (Latin was not available), and in college studied Greek and French. Periodically, I have taken up self- study with Latin, enough to have a reasonable beginner's knowledge, especially combined with my capacious English vocabulary, which gives me many cognates as clues..... There are several problems with the learning of languages in school. I discovered, for example, that I did much better with Racine than the Paris Match, for the simple reason that the Paris Match is full of idiomatic expressions, including current slang. I can read De Tocqueville with only occasional recourse to a dictionary or grammar, but I am not confident enough to engage in extended conversation, nor to write an essay. This is, at least in part, because they are not trying to teach conversational or contemporary French, but "academic French"....... I agree that education should aspire to more......

To: Rambi who wrote (73658)	2/2/2000 9:52:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Like you I studied Latin in high school. I was horrified that the college I attended didn't offer Latin, I had learned to enjoy reading works in the original so much. I did stick with the French though. Both were of enormous use in researching my master's thesis and I still enjoy reading Catullus on a cold night.