I had two letters to the editor of the Daily Illini in the 5 1/2 years I was there, and they were both about the foreign language requirement. I hated it. Lately I got the Rosetta Stone course in Japanese, and I hated that, too. But if you like languages, you're lucky. I'm sure it's great for the brain.
Lastly, "By the mid-19th century, however, the increasing dominance of national languages over Latin was causing alarm to some readers" stuck out for me. Johannes Brahms wrote his breakthrough hit (as it were) with his German Requiem right about then. Prior to that, requiems were always in Latin. Having sung that, I'm really glad it's in German.
Lastly, "By the mid-19th century, however, the increasing dominance of national languages over Latin was causing alarm to some readers" stuck out for me. Johannes Brahms wrote his breakthrough hit (as it were) with his German Requiem right about then. Prior to that, requiems were always in Latin. Having sung that, I'm really glad it's in German.