<p>Thanks for the information. Sounds like the rabies shots would be a good thing.</p>
<p>So far the Assimil has seemed good. Of course, this is only several weeks into it! My daughter’s advisor is the linguist in the Egyptology department and he is the one who recommended the Assimil, saying he learned some languages that way. I think you would need experience actually speaking the language with others for fluency, but for French and German all dd needs is to be able to read it. Unfortunately, the “French for reading” class at her school is only offered in the summer when she wants to do other things, and the only correspondence course I could find like this is for grad students and college seniors. I guess if she still can’t read what she needs to when she finishes we can always ask the school offering the course – the indication of level may be a self-selection thing, not a firm rule.</p>
<p>With previous Latin, I have a feeling the French won’t be that difficult. She could often get quite a bit of what was being discussed (in writing) even before learning any French. German seemed trickier – hence her desire for a followup class next year. Written German seems to have a lot of grammatical trickiness.</p>