medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:13:20 +0000, you wrote:
>In which vain - I mean vein, but let it stand - I wonder if our more
>opinionated members have views on the standards of Latinity being
>achieved nowadays? I ask because a man I am teaching Latin had said he
>would show me some exam papers in the subject, both GCSE and AS level.
>Yesterday he showed me a paper and I, thinking it was for GCSE, reacted
>at first quite positively. It wasn't all that much easier than the O
>Level I did all those hundreds of years ago. But a closer look revealed
>that it was in fact the AS paper. O dear.
Sadly, it's not just Latin. I recently did a Linguaphone course that
claimed to get users up to A-level to improve my French. The standard
seemed to be about the same as the O-level I did in 1979.
Gordon
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