I have a post-grad college education and substantial reading knowledge of the subject ( now ), and major portions of it are not understandable to me, still.
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The main influence behind the design of the exam was the grammar-translation teaching approach, which aims to establish reading knowledge ( rather than ability to communicate in the language ).
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A Latin and Greek scholar when he was a boy, he had a speaking or reading knowledge of perhaps 20 languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Uzbek.
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What is the best way to acquire a basic reading knowledge of ancient Greek ( or some other branch of historical or linguistic science ) ? " Wareh 18 : 10, 3 January 2007 ( UTC)
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His facility for languages was extraordinary : he spoke Russian, English, French, German, Czech and Spanish fluently, with a reading knowledge of five others, and a knowledge of Latin and classical Greek.
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He was also a linguist with few peers, possessing fluency in Spanish, German, Dutch, Latin, French, English, and ancient Greek, and a reading knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, and modern Greek.
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In the Prologue to his 2010 book, he notes ( 2010 : 3 ) that a request to have the thesis translated into English was unsuccessful and that this reduced access for those with a limited reading knowledge of Dutch.
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Even the " reading knowledge " required for a PhD degree is comparable only to what second-year language students read and only very few researchers who are native English speakers can read and assess information written in languages other than English.
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These technical passive reading knowledge courses are very different from general-purpose French or German language classes for undergraduates ( though I'm not sure if they're often called " applied " . . . ) . talk ) 22 : 51, 22 December 2007 ( UTC)
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:If you just want a passive reading knowledge of the standard written language only, then don't bother with " conversational " or audio courses-- most such courses teach a form of the language which is rather different from that which you'll find written in books, and learning Arabic is already difficult enough without spending time on skills which are not essential to you.
