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[Cadwalader]

Please excuse my terrible puns, but I came across something I had to share with you guys. In Germany, all children learn Latin in school if I'm not mistaken. Well, apparently someone decided that De Bello Gallico isn't cool enough anymore, and that the best way to teach the kids Classical Latin was through the power of Hip-Hop. The result is hilariously cringe-worthy.

http://www.audible.de/adde/store/pro..._LANG_000088DE Just click "Hörprobe" right below the album cover to learn irregular verbs "als coole Raps" .

[Kival]

In Germany, all children learn Latin in school if I'm not mistaken.

You're mistaken. It's wrong, latin can be learned in most schools in 7th grade but it's only a small minority which choose it.

Well, apparently someone decided that De Bello Gallico isn't cool enough anymore, and that the best way to teach the kids Classical Latin was through the power of Hip-Hop. The result is hilariously cringe-worthy.

http://www.audible.de/adde/store/pro..._LANG_000088DE Just click "Hörprobe" right below the album cover to learn irregular verbs "als coole Raps" .

Apparently I don't see any evidence for this replacing Bello Gallico in school.

[Cadwalader]

Okay, I lived with a German family for some time and all their children were taught latin. My German was sketchy, so I may have misunderstood something they said.

I was only making a joke here, don't take it so seriously.

[fomalhaut]

haha that's awful! why not just teach them catullus :P

sometimes its hard to make jokes on the EB forums, all stoics you see ;)

[XSamatan]

all stoics

I doubt that.

[Kival]

sometimes its hard to make jokes on the EB forums, all stoics you see ;)

It's difficult to differentiate between a joke and the showing of a fact which is considered funny, especially if you're in a forum and it's not in your own language ;-).

[fomalhaut]

halb dieses Forum sprecht Deutsch sowieso, wahr nicht?
hopefully ill find lots of german history buffs and eb fans when i go there in a few months :D

I wish Latin was even an option in high school here in amerikaaa :'(

[DaciaJC]

I wish Latin was even an option in high school here in amerikaaa :'(

It is sometimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Latin:_Vergil

[Mulceber]

It was in mine. For which I'm quite grateful. -M

[Lysimachos]

Okay, I lived with a German family for some time and all their children were taught latin. My German was sketchy, so I may have misunderstood something they said.

It depends on the Bundesland (State) and the school you are in. In some schools latin is mandatory, but in most you can choose.

[Cadwalader]

haha that's awful! why not just teach them catullus :P

That's a very good point! Catullus would no doubt keep them interested. Make them realize that the Romans could be pretty street themselves. Well, Catullus was equestrian, but still.

It depends on the Bundesland (State) and the school you are in. In some schools latin is mandatory, but in most you can choose.

That probably explains it. Thanks for clearing that up.

[GenosseGeneral]

That's a very good point! Catullus would no doubt keep them interested. Make them realize that the Romans could be pretty street themselves. Well, Catullus was equestrian, but still.

IIRC Catull is aprt of our literature for next year. However, this will the last year of latin in a high-level class (Germans in here: English term for Leistungskurs?) so it is nothing to keep the mass of students interested, who get rid of latin as soon as they can.

[athanaric]

However, this will the last year of latin in a high-level class (Germans in here: English term for Leistungskurs?) so it is nothing to keep the mass of students interested, who get rid of latin as soon as they can.

Which is a dumb move because Latin is mandatory for anyone who wants to study History or related sciences. If I had had Latin at school, my uni curriculum would have been considerably shorter.

[moonburn]

herm in my school i had to choose beteween learning latin and german ... as for the amerika i always heard that aslong as you vater can pay/pray you can learn anything from proper schools

[Kival]

It depends on the Bundesland (State) and the school you are in. In some schools latin is mandatory, but in most you can choose.

I don't know any Bundesland where latin is mandatory, for some special (private) schools it might be true but as far as I know it's not true for any state school.

Which is a dumb move because Latin is mandatory for anyone who wants to study History or related sciences. If I had had Latin at school, my uni curriculum would have been considerably shorter.

In germany there is at least one university with the possibility to study "modern" history where no "Latinum" is mandatory.

[athanaric]

In germany there is at least one university with the possibility to study "modern" history where no "Latinum" is mandatory.

Yeah... they're probably the ones responsible for all those retards who think that history started in 1789.

[Kival]

It's starting 1500:

http://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.d...ifg_ba_moderne