--- abstract: "Problems around teaching ancient languages are discussed. It is suggested to assume that\r\nlearning and teaching of languages require some superhuman effort. Author’s experience of\r\nteaching ancient languages and producing electronic educational tools both for text version\r\nand for Internet in Faculty of Theology in University of Latvia is described. Problems around\r\ncognitive models of reasoning and place of languages there are discussed." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Zeps given: Dainis honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2009-09-04 date_type: submitted datestamp: 2009-09-07 10:21:45 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/66/24 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6624 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6624/1/ancient.electronic.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: "ancient languages, Biblical languages, teaching of languages, learning of\r\nlanguages, Internet tools for education, cognition" lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:24 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: "1. 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Tutorial\r\nfor students of Classical Syriac, Riga, 2005,\r\nhttp://students.mii.lu.lv/DZ/syriac.comment.pdf\r\n34. Zeps, Dainis. Readings in Classical Syriac: Parallel Syriac - Greek text.\r\nTutorial for students of Classical Syriac, Riga, 2006,\r\nhttp://www.ltn.lv/~dainize/inform_theol/Aramaic/evang.vingr.pdf" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 38 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2009-09-07 10:21:45 subjects: - ling-learn succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "The Learning of Ancient Languages as\r\n(super)Human Effort" type: preprint userid: 8713 volume: ~