Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Barry H. <nebarry AT verizon.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randall Buth" <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
> To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> Cc: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] teaching communicatively
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>
>> This seems to suffer from an all-or-none fallacy. I was just
>> talking to someone yesterday who SPEAKS Latin. He even
>> uses a 'modern' pronunciation. He doesn't mind that it is not
>> exactly like Cicero (i.e. KIKERO to academics). What he has
>> noticed is that his reading and general feel is much better
>> than before he could speak, and that those who do not
>> speak Latin do not get into the language in the same way
>> and to the same depth. Maybe your mileage varies, but this
>> seemed pretty much on target. And I suspect that students
>> who could handle an oral Latin lecture 3-4 centuries ago
>> could read Latin literature much more comprehensively and
>> accurately and appreciatively than someone today who only
>> learns to painfully crank out compositions, if they even get
>> to that level.
>
> Cum quibus dixit?  Vivis hominibus quos tangat, aut in linea?

visitabat et Britannicae diximus. I don't speak Latin.
He wanted advice about how to go about doing in Hebrew
what he did in Latin. We had a nice conversation.

> mens curiosa...

sic cerno.


braxot
Randall


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