[Cz-L] Languages studied in Cernauti in Liceul #3

In consequence of Rachel Cylus' question about language use in Czernowitz,
I looked up the school certificates of my father. In grade 5 and 6 of the
Liceul #3 of Cernauti, in the years 1923 - 1925, my father studied:

Romanian (also language of instruction)
Latin
Ancient Greek
Hebrew
German
French

Show this to modern pedagogues, who think
that even one foreign language is too much!

Consider that even the language of instruction was foreign,
after all my father spoke Yiddish at home.
In addition, like all Czernowitzers of his generation,
he probably spoke Ruthenian, necessary for communication
with the villagers from the surrounding area.

In 1940 he also learned Ukrainian and Russian well enough,
to translate a Mathematics textbook from Russian to Ukrainian
and be awarded a prize for the translation.

Mimi
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