Word: berlitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than the sort of extravagance which, since Rimbaud, has haunted French poetry when it decides to break out of the straitjacket of French rationality. Private images seem to compete successfully with good sense. Yet the French is intoxicating to the ear −even to a merely Berlitz-trained ear. And while the English translations are often flat and sometimes incorrect, readers will find a good man in these pages, a man who wears the mask of language, not in order to hide his identity but to make plain his role in the tragedy...
...Berlitz English. Neither was Rizzoli deterred when Novelist Guareschi published one of the fake letters involving ex-Premier de Gasperi and got a year's prison sentence for libel (TIME, April 26). Publisher Rizzoli bought a batch of the letters for a down payment of $20,000 and began spraying them across the front pages of Oggi...
...well as professional, promptly began to spot gaping holes in Oggi's yarns, which were apparently designed to glorify Mussolini and embarrass the democratic politicians who now govern Italy. The English phrases attributed to Prosemaster Winston Churchill were so wooden that some other newspapers ridiculed them as "Berlitz-learned English." In one letter, "Churchill" referred to himself as Prime Minister at a time when he was still only First Lord of the Admiralty...
Professor Waldo Sweet [TIME, July 20] is right in using the Berlitz method to make his students of Latin talk Latin: Loqui loquendo distilur (Talk is learned by talking) is the Berlitz motto...
Juvenis Gerit . . . After 18 years of teaching Latin, Sweet now tries to avoid both these errors by a kind of modified Berlitz system. To give his pupils an idea of what Latin is all about, he starts out with a series of lessons on how languages differ. Soon, students get the idea that they must begin to think in Latin, that they can no longer rely on clues from their knowledge of English...