"So I think having technology as a door-opener I feel will actually help us to make more contact with people who speak other languages, simply because it is nice, it opens our world more and we start understanding each other more, and that's of course what it's all about."
The new Google Translate computer technology actually AROUSES interest in foreign languages that may have once seemed impenetrable to the young students or to adult students.
Compare this resource with a high school kid alone with an arid French, German , or Spanish textbook circa 1975 ?
I recall that those school textbook guides to pronunciation rival Greek itself in instant clarity . GOOGLE S-P-E-A-K is so much better ! And those popular foreign language travel phrase books come to vivid life .
Even Ancient Latin is less intimidating with the new language learning technology.
In the past tedious boredom discouraged language learning.
Digitized ancient manuscripts make it possible for one to study material available to privileged scholars only just a few decades ago. Can YOU , for example , access the Vatican Secret Archives - and study famous saints and sinners with PRIMARY sources ?
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