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Written by Gadiandi
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Sunday, 03 December 2006 |
Can you learn another language just by reading it? An article on Omniglot has an interesting of someone who did: "Today I came across another interesting language learning method on Language learning tips,
which was used by the 19th-century German archaeologist, Heinrich
Schliemann (1822-1890), who excavated Troy. In order to learn Greek he
read a Greek translation of one of his favourite books, and compared
the translation word by word and line by line with the original text.
This enabled him to learn a lot of vocabulary and grammar in context
without having to refer to dictionaries or grammar books all the time.
Here’s some more information about Schliemann’s language learning methods, which enabled him to acquire eighteen languages quite quickly and successfully."
Read more on Omniglot
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