Re: teaching kids langs

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> I have every intention of teaching my young children Latin.  And, if they
> want to, Greek.
Do you have any young children yet?

You'll find that it's extremely hard; the best age to start teaching
a classical language (or indeed any language that you're not fluent
in) to a child is as soon as they can read adequately, say six, and
six-year-olds have minds like kittens. No attention span to speak of,
but they're interested in everything, that is, everything *else* as
well as what you're trying to teach them. I speak from experience.

   Irina

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