Recommended reading for lovers of language

Learning Latin leads to success - Cedar Rapids Gazette (12/17)

The college board and foreign languages - Education Next (11/14)

The world beyond reach:  Why languages are indispensible - Chronicle of Higher Education (11/7)

Crisis of the humanities II - New York Times (10/18)

The crisis of the humanities officially arrives - New York Times (10/11)

Lost in Translation:  Does Language Influence Culture? - Wall Street Journal (6/23)

150 Years of Classics at LSU - Lecture 11/11/10

150 YEARS OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT LSU

Thursday, 11 November, 5:30 in Hodges 324

What do the late LSU Classics professor Robert Edgeworth and Union army
general William Tecumseh Sherman have in common?

Find out at Nathalie Roy's talk on the history of teaching Classical
Studies at LSU. 

 Nathalie Roy, an LSU graduate, teaches Classics at Episcopal High School
in Baton Rouge and is currently the vice president of the Louisiana
Classical Association.  Ms Roy describes her talk as part history
lesson, part trip down memory lane.  

This event is sponsored by Students for the Promotion of Antiquity, Eta
Sigma Phi, and the LSU Classics Colloquium.

FLXIV Interactive - When did you first realize knowing a foreign language was cool?

Can you understand Japanese in an anime film?

Do you know that Spanish won't get you anywhere in Brazil?
Can you read Plato in ancient Greek?
Do you know what the German motto of Volkswagen means?
Can you translate the motto of Hogwarts into English?

Can you read street signs in Russia?

Can you successfully order (or avoid) ossobuco in Italy?

Do you get more out the Lion King because you know Swahili?

Can you read the Old Testament in Hebrew?

When did you first realize that knowing a foreign language was cool?  Leave a note in the comments!