Date: 07 Apr 2000 19:08:33 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Brad Knowles's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:50:57 %2B0200" References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]>
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Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> writes: > So I have to learn Latin before I can learn French? No, but knowing Latin (even just a little Latin) helps a lot. It also helps a lot for learning English, Spanish, Italian and, to a lesser degree, several other European languages. > I may be wrong, but I don't think they teach it that way in > schools in France, There's at least one year of compulsory "introduction to Latin and Greek", the aim of which is to teach the children the basis of etymology, language evolution etc., which is a great help for a) understanding words you've never heard before, b) figuring out how to spell them, c) figuring out how to use (decline etc.) them, and d) getting some of the more obscure jokes in Astérix :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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