Carleton College - Algol Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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Modern Languages Slam! Guten morgen. Ein, zwei, drei - everybody here. And another German class gets under way. Meanwhile all over campus other doors slam shut as French, Spanish, and Russian students stagger into class laden with grammars, readers, and piles of vocabulary cards. An especially enthusiastic group of students was the Rus- sian 202 class. Offered for the first time this year, Russian 202 was incorporated into the language curriculum at the insistent requests of students for more advanced study. The class had a splendid opportunity to practice conversational Russian when Mr. Goncharoff came to Carleton in the fall. Twice a year the Modern Languages Department has a surprise for its students - diagnostic tests. The countrywide competition is rough and prizes nonexistent, but those who emerge as top scorers know they have done their share to maintain Carleton's reputation among the other college lan- gauge classes of the country. Occasionally the students are confronted with a tape recorder emitting all sorts of wild and unintelligible sounds. This, they are informed, is an im- aginary language and they are given fifty minutes to learn, among other things, that wang zhenii glotten means one hundred sixty-two. But learning a language is by no means confined to the classroom. Sitting sphinx-like with earphones in the library listening room, chattering at one of the language dinner ta- bles, singing along with foreign folk song records, or traveling in Europe on the semester abroad plan, Carleton linguists are constantly improving their francais, Deutsch, russki, or espanol. ll is IR, V, 7 1 P W., M , nu, 21 efd- i if M. Russian: Mr. Klatt French and Spanish: Mr. Mess- ner, Mr. Obaid, Mr. Lewald not pictured, Mr. Schier, chair- man 5 Mr. Osborne, Mrs. Hyslop, Mr. Moehle, Mrs. Sipfle.

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