<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/23941718-c0bb-48bc-84a6-7c8f8956ded9/A436F548-0736-48EF-93BD-E5F7AADC7162/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Greek-To-Me.html?singleFile=true" href="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Greek-To-Me.html?singleFile=true" style="font-size: 11px;">www.parade.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Greek-To-Me.html?singleFile=true"><DIV id="CB4-AList-headerCont"> <DIV class="header"> <DIV> <A href="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/">ASK MARILYN</A> </DIV> <DIV> <A href="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/askmarilyn-archive.html">ASK MARILYN ARCHIVE</A> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Greek-To-Me.html?singleFile=true"><DIV class="question"> It’s All Greek To Me </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Greek-To-Me.html?singleFile=true"><DIV class="answer"><DIV> <EM>Richard Keenan of Bloomington, Indiana, writes:</EM> </DIV> <BR /><DIV>Marilyn: I've heard that if one wants to learn foreign languages, one should study Latin first. But what if one's sole objective is to learn French, for example? </DIV> <STRONG><DIV>Marilyn responds: </DIV> <BR /><DIV>Richard: In either case, I wouldn't study Latin first. To learn several languages, I'd study etymology, which focuses on the historical development of word forms as they're transmitted from one language to another. This targets the most useful aspects of studying Latin and covers other languages, such as Greek. Studying etymology helps one's understanding of English, too. </DIV> <BR />To learn only one language, I would study just that one.</STRONG> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A436F548-0736-48EF-93BD-E5F7AADC7162/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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