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Huh. Didn't know this had died out; guess I'd never thought about it when I was learning German back in college. But, then.... > What is withheld is the inform
by pnathan 10y ago
Huh. Didn't know this had died out; guess I'd never thought about it when I was learning German back in college. But, then....
> What is withheld is the information on the meanings of words, phrases, and sentences the students are reading.
This is not how I learned German at Idaho State University in the 2002-2003 timeframe.
Anyway, a Hebrew / Green interlinear is a very standard Bible study tool. You can find a online example at Blue Letter Bible online. They have middling worth, in my opinion. You can get an idea of what the sentence is, but you lose substantial information, possibly even the key nuance of the sentence. It would be interesting to see what an interlinear would look like for a generally factual newspaper article, as opposed to the more symbolic religious texts.
If someone is interested, I can probably translate a German newspaper paragraph into a stab at an interlinear reading (email me the request, as I have a lot on my plate and won't really be able to update it on HN).
- ajarmst 10y agoIt's still standard for dead languages (cf. Wheelock's Latin, any Biblical Hebrew text, Koine Greek, Classical Greek, Aramaic, etc.). Modern languages have tended to shift into a focus on conversational use rather than scholarly reading. There're fairly obvious reasons for this.