On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:03:03AM -0400, Lewis, Raymond J. wrote:

> Stephen -
>
> Well done. Take any language course on the continent and you will
> be asked to write something down. Only in a few arcane languages do some
> seem to get the strange idea that translation is, alone, the key to
> learning.

Actually, there are all kinds of courses in what's called "reading knowledge"
of a language, and not just dead ones. I'm learning german that way, because
what I'm interested in is being able to read/translate academic articles.

--
Arlie

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