1963 Miracle Yearbook

Foreign Language When a student is first confronted with a foreign language, he often wonders how people can think and speak in reverse. But, as he finds English words which equal the foreign ones, sees the similarities and differences in structure, and learns the idiomatic phrases, the strange becomes familiar to him. The beauty of French, the terseness of German, and the rhythm of Spanish, hold a new and challenging world of study and thought for him. He thinks, studies, learns, masters, and then begins to think in a new way. 36 Concentration is required to absorb the elements of another culture. Harmon Bergen, A.B.