<p>How does one learn the German and French required for Ph.D. programs? It seems like an awful lot, learning Latin, ancient Greek, German, AND French in just 4-5 years.</p>
<p>Most of my fellow Classics majors took at least one of the languages in high school, so it cuts down some (I took German). Remember that grad programs only want <em>reading knowledge</em> of German and French- basically, all you have to do is be able to translate scholarly articles with a dictionary. You don't really need to be able to speak or write them, although that would be helpful.</p>