[vidarh]

My final year I forced my way through Faust by using an old Danish translation side by side with the German version to bring my grade up.

I'm Norwegian, so the old Danish translation gave me a "halfway house" - modern Danish is very understandable for a Norwegian; older Danish gets quite a bit closer to German. I still missed a lot of what was going on, but it brought me up a full grade in a semester.

Of course I'd probably had done just as well with less effort had I chosen something easier - I was being pretentious about it.