Egregoros

One thing that “dead” language courses seem to do better than modern language courses is motivating the student by offering interesting material early on. Lesson two of Classical Chinese has me translating “孫子曰：兵者，國之大事，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也。” In Latin, I understand The Gallic War is traditionally given to students relatively early.

Imagine a German course skipping “Es regnet heute” and going right to “Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?”