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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6276 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 9 of 11 23 June 2016 at 9:07pm | IP Logged |
It is admittedly more common to see parallel texts, say Italian on the left page and the English translation on the right. Why interlinear fell out of favour is a little bit of a mystery to me.
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| Kees Nonaglot Newbie Canada learn-to-read-foreig Joined 5188 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: Dutch*, Swedish, French, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 10 of 11 24 June 2016 at 4:42pm | IP Logged |
I think because word-for-word interlinear translations are very hard to make, while
parallel texts and any other course forms (dump some artificial text together with a word
list and some grammar rules) are very easy to make. Plus these latter can be made again
and again and keep students busy (and paying) for ages. It's a whole industry :)
Also, the way they used to learn greek texts or latin texts before capitalism was
introduced in the education sector was reading through loads of these glossed interlinear
word-for-word translations, pretty efficient as you encounter far more vocabulary than
any current day course and are immersed in the language from day one instead of having to
go through tiny artificial texts and high freq word lists and little bits of grammar.
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| Rhian Moderator France Joined 6501 days ago 265 posts - 288 votes Speaks: English* Personal Language Map
| Message 11 of 11 03 July 2016 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
Heads up (or reminder, can't remember who knows)
it's worthwhile joining www.forum.language-
learners.org as most of us moved over there after
technical problems here. You can of course continue
to use this site but you might find fewer responses
to your posts.
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