Posts Tagged ‘life of language learning’

How Latin Almost Ruined It (to be continued)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
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Walking into Miss Leslie’s Latin class on the first day of ninth grade was the culmination of a lifelong dream. I could actually hear Roman background music in my mind. I didn’tunderstand how the other students could be anything less than enthusiastic about the prospect of beginning Latin. Electricity coursed through me as I opened the Latin book Miss Leslie gave us. I was finally studying a foreign language! (more…)

A Life Of Language Learing

Friday, February 6th, 2009

A brief “language autobiography” may help readers whose language learning and language loving careers began only a few moments ago with the opening of these posts. My favourite word – in any language – is the English word foreign. I remember how it came to be my favourite word. At the age of four I attended a summer day camp. (more…)