Language Instruction

Here is a link to a four part series discussing classical language instruction: http://jeltzz.blogspot.com/2009/05/conversational-dead-languages-i.html

All in all I tend to agree with author. One of my largest frustrations with my language instruction is that so little of it has been devoted to helping me learn to read the texts. I've longed for a professor that would require us to read the text, not just a verse or two, but large chunks of the text. I've finally come to an independent study course that will allow me to head down that road with Hebrew. Thus far, it has been a joyous, albeit time-consuming, experience!