Showing posts with label foreign languages (other). Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign languages (other). Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2024

Why are certain European languages so often spoken in Africa? (Answer: History)

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“A Declaration introducing into international relations certain uniform rules with reference to future occupations on the coast of the Afric...
Monday, September 5, 2022

A review of “Versailles” (French documentary)

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“ L’état, c’est moi. ” (“I am the State.”) – A line attributed to King Louis XIV of France – a line that he may or may not have actually sa...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

A few problems with Rousseau’s “The Social Contract”

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“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. H...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Some thoughts about foreign language education

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“What do you call someone who speaks three languages? (Trilingual.) What do you call someone who speaks two languages? (Bilingual.) What d...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Rousseau's “Discourse on Inequality” is long on detail, but short on evidence …

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“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine,' and found people simple eno...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Where do I find Latin and Greek works in the original?

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You might try the Loeb Classical Library , described at Wikipedia here and found at this website here . (The rest of this post is about h...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Reflections on studying the history of languages (and how they change over time)

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So I recently read a book called "Historical Linguistics" (3rd edition) , by Winfred P. Lehmann , which talks about the way that...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Why I want to read philosophy in other languages

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It is well-known among my friends that I am a foreign language buff. Some of my friends also know that I am a  philosophy  buff as well. ...