It's still standard for dead languages (cf. Wheelock's Latin, any Biblical Hebrew text, Koine Greek, Classical Greek, Aramaic, etc.). Modern languages have ten

It'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.