Attached is a link to a Duolingo thread concerning changing languages focus at the Defence Language Institute over the 1963 to 2018 period: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36176619
Here is a fun interactive graphic https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1187267/
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Re: DLI language enrollment over the years
lavengro wrote:Attached is a link to a Duolingo thread concerning changing languages focus at theDefenceDefense Language Institute over the 1963 to 2018 period: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36176619
Here is a fun interactive graphic https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1187267/
Fixed your post for ya.
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Re: DLI language enrollment over the years
IronMike wrote:lavengro wrote:Attached is a link to a Duolingo thread concerning changing languages focus at theDefenceDefense Language Institute over the 1963 to 2018 period: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36176619
Here is a fun interactive graphic https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1187267/
Fixed your post for ya.
Thanks Mike. Yep, it's my Canadian upbringing slipping out: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence.html
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chove wrote:Spot the end of the Cold War!
You're exaggerating now -- it was just a minor disagreement over spelling conventions.
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Re: DLI language enrollment over the years
Anyone want to venture a guess why New Testament Greek spent a brief time at number one? I'm not shocked it was a commonly studied language in 1963 but I am wondering why the DLI specifically was training people in it.
Maybe there is military value in being able to conduct advanced theological debates in certain cultures?
Maybe there is military value in being able to conduct advanced theological debates in certain cultures?
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Lemus wrote:Anyone want to venture a guess why New Testament Greek spent a brief time at number one? I'm not shocked it was a commonly studied language in 1963 but I am wondering why the DLI specifically was training people in it.
Maybe there is military value in being able to conduct advanced theological debates in certain cultures?
I'll guess: Either for chaplains or they didn't have any Modern Greek instructors available at the time. ???
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You're not a C1 (or B1 or whatever) if you haven't tested.
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My reading life.
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Re: DLI language enrollment over the years
Lemus wrote:Anyone want to venture a guess why guess why New Testament Greek spent a brief time at number one? I'm not shocked it was a commonly studied language in 1963 but I am wondering why the DLI specifically was training people in it. Maybe there is military value in being able to conduct advanced theological debates in certain cultures?
I'll take the chaplains option with a huge grain of salt. Unless, of course, their prospective ministries were fluent in New Testament Greek, as well. This leaves the latter option which seems a little strange given the availability of comparable FSI Greek materials, not to mention a few others of the same period. I suspect that this will remain one of the “great unresolved mysteries” of language-learning.IronMike wrote:I'll guess: Either for chaplains or they didn't have any Modern Greek instructors available at the time. ???
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German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999) - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5189
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Re: DLI language enrollment over the years
Speakeasy wrote:Lemus wrote:Anyone want to venture a guess why guess why New Testament Greek spent a brief time at number one? I'm not shocked it was a commonly studied language in 1963 but I am wondering why the DLI specifically was training people in it. Maybe there is military value in being able to conduct advanced theological debates in certain cultures?I'll take the chaplains option with a huge grain of salt. Unless, of course, their prospective ministries were fluent in New Testament Greek, as well. This leaves the latter option which seems a little strange given the availability of comparable FSI Greek materials, not to mention a few others of the same period. I suspect that this will remain one of the “great unresolved mysteries” of language-learning.IronMike wrote:I'll guess: Either for chaplains or they didn't have any Modern Greek instructors available at the time. ???
Another option: Whoever created this report or loaded the 'stats' at DLI picked the wrong language bi- or trigraph for modern Greek and got New Testament Greek.
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