I really loved the first half.

I'm working on my master's in Classics, with some Computer Science on the sly, and one of our requirements is a reading proficiency in French or German. When we're reading through paper journals in the library stacks, the thinking went, we'll need a knowledge of French or German to get through all the scholarship.

I can't see myself ever reading any journal articles far away from a computer with an internet connection to Google Translate, but academic requirements aren't changing as fast at the technology scene.

Fortunately, technology came to the rescue. There's a huge corpus of text segmented by domain, Wikipédia, so I just read various articles and refreshed my French.