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Here are a few activities and methods you can use to teach your children foreign lnguages.
1. Watch TV and Movies:There are so many english cartoons dubbed in Spanish (eg. spongebob, dora the explorer, sesame street) 2.Games: Want your kids to enjoy learning a foreign language. Then purchase interactive computer games in a foreign language. 3.Read and Sing: Start with basic children’s books that are kindergarten to preschool level and work up. The earlier you start the better. |
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I hope this is useful to you. ¡Buena suerte! [Good luck!] |
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I studied 1 year of Latin. When I did it, it was "mandatory", so I had no purpose. Nowadays, I realize HOW USEFUL IT IS. Basically all Romance languages come from LATIN, so knowing Latin gives you such ability to understand in present time, that it is not even funny... There are TONs of English words with Latin derivation... In other words, "they" say Latin is a "dead tongue"... But not so, really. It is alive in the aforementioned languages, in scientific nomenclature and furthermore, the Asterix and Obelix comics are TRANSLATED into Latin... That should be enough motivation for anyone to start learning this vibrant, dynamic and humorous and dramatic... tonge... (I am joking a bit, but on the other hand I am serious.) Like my mother used to say, however, "Quan natura non dat, Salamanca non presta" (something to the effect that when you don't have a basic-natural intelligence, the University of Salamanca is not going to lend you some extra I.Q...) |
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In both cases they're necessarily for the commerce in the ambit labor, yes it could sound interesting in the investigation of the new cultures more here in south America for any discovery, but well it totally is the tasty of each person, in my point of view personal it's not necessary. But well your brother has the freedom of acquire any language of his preference. Don't you?
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Certainly learning Latin is not necessary, and I don't believe anyone wished to give that impression. It can be, however, quite useful in many situations. Most of our scientific nomenclature can be traced to Latin roots or is specifically Latin itself. As an example of what I mean (besides the chemistry elements example already posted), we can consider the taxonomy of the flora and fauna of our planet.
To start with, flora and fauna are both words of Latin origin (Flora being the goddess of flowers and Fauna being the sister of Faunus, the god of the woods). Certainly I did not need to know these origins to learn the meaning of flora (plant life) and fauna (animal life), but it is very useful to know. Now let us consider the common wolf. Laymen would refer to it as merely a "wolf". However, in scientific terms it is actually "canis lupus" which shows the genus and species of the animal. Without knowledge of Latin one would have to memorize this name and association. However, by knowing Latin the meaning becomes quite clear. Canis means dog, and lupus means wolf. We can therefore assume this creature is a wolf (which is a kind of dog). Our common dog is canis lupus familiaris, from which we can see that all modern pet dogs share a common ancestor with the gray wolf. I hope this post has helped you see how Latin can help people in scientific work and understanding of English terms. Disclaimer: I have taken only high school biology and know very limited amounts of Latin, so I apologize for any factual errors I may have made. |
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I agree with your term and your own way to think in the Latin use, and well I think that the Latin usages is important only for the people who really uses the language like as writers or reading of the old culture, also the scientific people who investigate the new species in the planet or world animal. Without those term I don't believe that today existing all the variety of the common names that exist currently. Well said everything.
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Puede ser importante para cualquier persona, no solo para científicos de profesión. Las cosas no tienen que rectificar las convenciones sociales (es decir, no tienen porqué ser útiles para la sociedad) para emprender su estudio o uso. Veamos, ¿es necesario vivir?
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Au - oro - áureo Ag - plata - argento, Argentina Fe - hierro - vía férrea, ferroso. etc. |
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Well, for that matter, English too, (even if 'poetic' or 'technical')
aurify - to cause to appear golden; gild: Dawn came, and sunlight aurified the lead-gray ocean. argentine - (note lower case) means "of or pertaining to silver". ferroelectric - pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field. |
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