It Makes You Think

Well, this video makes ME think - which is what is often needed at my age. I hope some of your teachers were better than my French ones!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pimsleur
• modern
• languages
• teaching
• French
• Latin
• Greek
• Navaho
• Babylonian

[iCalintz]

The French teacher who had conversations with his mother creeps me out.

[tenneral]

@iCalintz You cab imagine the sinister and nauseating effect it had on us youngsters!

[RobNorthampton]

In the 1970's, aged 21, I plucked up the courage to go to my very first CHE meeting in a local pub in Boston. CHE stood for Campaign for Homosexual Equality, and they were the only organised group at the time who would hold discos, or just get-togethers. The very first man to speak to me was my old Grammar School French teacher! I reminded him that he'd confiscated/stolen a full pack of cigarettes form me when I was 16. He apologised and bought me a few pints of beer as compensation...

[tenneral]

@RobNorthampton Ah yes, my own conscience of past severities as a school teacher suggests that I might have to buy several pints if justice were done. But I hope your old French teacher is as happy as you are.

[EJConrad]

5:12 YES

[fc007]

Hey Tenneral I'm attempting to learn both Latin and Classical Greek. I would appreciate any recommendation on any books that I may learn from.

[that1weirdkid27]

I love Scottish Gaelic! It's so beautiful!

[BlizBob]

A few years ago my wife was picking weeds from a flowerbed at out summer cottage. She found this rock wich after washing it turned out to be a stone tool.

It was shaped like a chisel. The tip was slightly curved and sharpened while the other end was rough.

That thing is thousands of years old.

Stone age is concidered to have ended here about 3500 years ago.

I still have it.

Perhaps it's owner dropped it by accident?

That too makes you think.

[AncientAtheist]

I read Treasure Island about a year ago. Wonderful book. I too read it in a strange language - 18th century English. I was able to follow along surprisingly well. ;)

[RobNorthampton]

@tenneral A bit like me, he also smoked too much. He died of lung cancer at 58. By the same reckoning, that gives me about 5 years! :-(

[RobNorthampton]

Anyway, after that long and rambling essay, back to your video. Across the road from where I live in Northampton is a Country Park which holds the site of an iron age settlement. In the local museum are artifacts gleaned from there. I am always amazed at the craftsmanship that went into their tools and jewellery, made so long ago. For the same reason, I find your Babylonian script tablet amazing. When we imagine how many generations have come and gone since, it makes you think indeed!