Word: mongolian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oral-aural method started under strange conditions. Just before the outbreak of World War II, the American Council of Learned Societies attempted to find a better way to teach esoteric languages, such as Mongolian or Hindi. With a paucity of teachers understanding these tongues, the Council hit upon the use of tape recorders and a direct approach to the language: Submerge the student in an atmosphere of the language from the very first by use of a recorded master voice and let him absorb the language gradually as does a child. This experiment rapidly expanded, however, with the start...
There were handshakes all round, but there was no playing of anthems, no crowd of the kind the U.S.S.R. can muster for a visiting Mongolian. Imperturbably, Nixon read through his short airport speech, drawing extemporaneously on his freshly learned stock of Russian proverbs ("Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...
...shall be unlawful for any person of the Caucasian or white race to intermarry with any person of the Ethiopian or black race, Malayan or brown race, or Mongolian or yellow race...
...Those who met him found him with a wealth of knowledge and an amazing store of personal anecdotes. Owen Lattimore was once a name of great political controversy in American life, but perhaps the one thing Harvard students will remember most about him is that he once rode a Mongolian horse for 18 days through 30 below temperatures...
...time to come. There is good reason to expect that the students themselves would greatly resent eight hours a week learning to say, "Passez La Beurre," even if the chances were good for their getting through in one year. What about the existing intensive courses? Chinese Aab, Slavic Aab, Mongolian, Japanese...