It is also very interesting to learn language from ancient times while studying children’s literature. Kids mostly started language/literature by listening to stories and reciting poems. For example, kids from China started learning ancient Chinese literature such as poems instead of modern literature. Parents sometimes force their children to recite the ancient literature artworks. Personally, I think the ancient language is more concise than modern language. What I know from Chinese language, a certain word in ancient Chinese language need to be described by a modern sentence and this might be one of the reasons why Chinese ancient poems is so hard to translate to other languages. Lots of ancient Chinese poets began to learn literature once they can read and some famous ones began to write poems when they were teenagers. (e.g, “E E E” is a poem written by Luobing Wang when he was only 7 years old, and this piece of poem are one of the most poems from Tang Dynasty.)
I took linguistic for the first summer session and I learned something about English history. The history of English can be roughly divided by the Old English (OE) (450-1100), Middle English (ME) (1100-1500), Early Modern English (EME) (1500-1650) and Shakespeare is one of the famous authors in Early Modern English literature. Shakespeare's work was written in Early Modern English, and we can not truly understand them somehow. However, they are still being highly spoken of and being studied by lots of researchers.
Studying old time literature can not only help kids practice their language skills but also give them a general idea about how the society was looked like in that period of time. Different styles of literature artwork can help students understand hoe history developed as time went by and what were people thoughts in that time.
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