+346 Any book you read in a foreign language class is pretty much guaranteed to sound like it was written for preschoolers. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know if this counts as a foreign language, but if it does, then this is another scenario where Latin is an anomaly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

latin isnt a foreign language, it's a dead language. while it may be important to learn for historys sake, no country uses it as a main language for communication

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't mean to argue semantics here, but seeing as the definition of foreign is "of, pertaining to, or derived from another country or nation", I'd say it's a foreign language.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

yeah i guess but latin isn't grouped in this because there are no books being written in latin nowadays. the books written back then were for the literate elite-not high school kids trying to learn the language

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just because they were written a long time ago means they're void? The post says "any book you read in a foreign language class", and I certainly read books in my Latin class.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Somethig can be foreign and dead. It's not just used for history's sake either. Many other languages have at least parts that are derived from Latin. while no country uses Latin as a main languages, Spanish, Purguguese, Romanian, Frence, and Italian are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just wondering where they speak purguguese.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Brazil and, I'm going to take a shot in the dark here, Portugal.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't they mostly speak portugese in portugal?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're the one who asked where they speak it. I have you an answer with just a little sarcasm.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I googled purguguese, it doesn't exist...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh, my bad! Where did that even come from? *Portuguese

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, I don't think Cicero, Catullus, Terence, Pliny the Younger, etc. is exactly childish reading.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We've read Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes in English class, and Jules Verne and Guy de Maupassant un French class. Doesn't seem like literature for preschoolers to me...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In French we read Le Petit Prince... it was specifically written for children! Haha but it was still actually pretty challenging. It forces you to learn the language the same way you learned your first language, if that makes sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's hilarious! That's the book I'm reading right now in my own French class. This post is actually about that book.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Que le monde est petit! :]

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bah oui, mais pas comme si petite comme la planète de le petit prince ;)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bien sur! haha! :]

by Anonymous 12 years ago