I have to be careful around the local ancient languages expert in my city. I don't want to offend him by saying "I just can't see investing time in dead languages like Sanskrit." because he is a great language resource.
Anyway, Prof. Arguelles thinks that the educated Westerner ought to know Latin & Greek, English and at least French, Spanish or German, Russian, and Persian or Arabic or Sanskrit or Hindi or Chinese.
What do you think? Do you fit his idea of an educated person?
A well-educated Middle-Easterner “should” know: a) Arabic, b) Persian, Turkish, & Hebrew, c) English & French, and d) Latin or Urdu or Japanese
A well-educated Indian “should” know: a) Sanskrit & Persian or Arabic, b) Hindi/Urdu & Bengali, Marathi or Gujarati or…, c) English, and d) Italian or Korean or Swahili
A well-educated Easterner “should” know: a) Classical Chinese, b) Mandarin, Japanese, & Korean, c) English, and d) Greek or Pali or Persian
I found this information on a few sites. If this is interesting to you, please go to the source and contact Prof. Arguelles and be VERY, very polite. He is rather strict about this, imo. No chit-chat, casual style!
Arguelles supposedly speaks 26 languages. That's kind of impressive. Actually after a person learns four languages, then they start to get much easier. I can't even tell you how easy they get, who would believe me!
Keeping them fit, keeping up the languages is another matter.
Anyway, Prof. Arguelles thinks that the educated Westerner ought to know Latin & Greek, English and at least French, Spanish or German, Russian, and Persian or Arabic or Sanskrit or Hindi or Chinese.
What do you think? Do you fit his idea of an educated person?
A well-educated Middle-Easterner “should” know: a) Arabic, b) Persian, Turkish, & Hebrew, c) English & French, and d) Latin or Urdu or Japanese
A well-educated Indian “should” know: a) Sanskrit & Persian or Arabic, b) Hindi/Urdu & Bengali, Marathi or Gujarati or…, c) English, and d) Italian or Korean or Swahili
A well-educated Easterner “should” know: a) Classical Chinese, b) Mandarin, Japanese, & Korean, c) English, and d) Greek or Pali or Persian
I found this information on a few sites. If this is interesting to you, please go to the source and contact Prof. Arguelles and be VERY, very polite. He is rather strict about this, imo. No chit-chat, casual style!
Arguelles supposedly speaks 26 languages. That's kind of impressive. Actually after a person learns four languages, then they start to get much easier. I can't even tell you how easy they get, who would believe me!
Keeping them fit, keeping up the languages is another matter.