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1．How to Learn a Foreign Language through Translation Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself…. In my French and Latin translations I adopted an excellent method, which, from my own success, I would recommend to the imitation of students. I chose some classic writers, such as Cicero and Vertot, the most approved for purity and elegance of style. I translated, for instance, an epistle of Cicero into French; and, after throwing it aside till the word and phrases were obliterated f