last year I had to take a foreign language exam in order to get my MA. [Don't ask. Everyone requires them, for no actual reason I can discern.]
Weird. Like, very weird. Maybe to prove that you're a student of the world? That you can understand multiple cultures?
I passed on the first try. This is not necessarily a show of my Spanish prowess; the test was terribly easy. They let you use a dictionary and everything.)
Despite the dictionary, I'm sure there were still people who failed. You've still got to remember tenses, implied meanings, phrases, etc. I haven't taken Latin since freshman year of high school (roughly the same amount of time for me as there was for you and Spanish), and there's no way I'd be able to translate an entire paragraph, dictionary or not.
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Date: 2010-06-01 10:40 pm (UTC)::grin:: Aww, too nice.
last year I had to take a foreign language exam in order to get my MA. [Don't ask. Everyone requires them, for no actual reason I can discern.]
Weird. Like, very weird. Maybe to prove that you're a student of the world? That you can understand multiple cultures?
I passed on the first try. This is not necessarily a show of my Spanish prowess; the test was terribly easy. They let you use a dictionary and everything.)
Despite the dictionary, I'm sure there were still people who failed. You've still got to remember tenses, implied meanings, phrases, etc. I haven't taken Latin since freshman year of high school (roughly the same amount of time for me as there was for you and Spanish), and there's no way I'd be able to translate an entire paragraph, dictionary or not.