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Old 02-28-2014, 01:16 PM   #1288
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Writing poetry in a foreign language can be an excellent way to learn it. I remember the challenge of trying to write Latin verse in iambic pentameter. Gave me a huge amount of respect for people like Virgil who could just reel it off by the thousands of lines . (Although of course it wasn't a foreign language for him - but I certainly couldn't do the same in English!)
I have it on good authority that Virgil couldn't reel it off easily in English, either.
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