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| Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6957 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech | Message 73 of 74 15 June 2007 at 6:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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Okay, thank you very much for your efforts and enlightening me on this, Iversen and Volte.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 74 of 74 14 July 2007 at 5:40am | IP Logged | |||||
I just see that I have overlooked your question, Volte. Sorry for the delay. My main reason is that by concentrating on the European Indoeuropean languages I can use their similarities to learn many more languages in a certain time frame than I could if I chose an assortment of very different languages. I have even gained passive access to an assortment of similar languages and dialects, - for instance I can more or less read Africaans through my Dutch, even though I don't intend to add Africaans to my active languages (at least not right now, maybe later). Besides the European languages may have different alphabets, but they don't use ideograms or weird hybrid writing systems such as some Oriental languages do, and in most cases (with English as one serious exception) the written form does allow one to infer the pronunciation. Couple this with an ample supply of texts and dictionaries/grammars, good and cheap travel opportunities and you have a group of languages that are uniquely suited to selfstudy. Maybe I'm just lazy. PS: 6w Icelandic running from today Edited by Iversen on 14 July 2007 at 5:53am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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