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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 9 of 16 23 November 2010 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, Gregor, I've added these to the top as Finnish is unrelated to Esperanto.
La finna venko! Edited by Sprachprofi on 23 November 2010 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5296 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes | Message 10 of 16 23 November 2010 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
My "Wir lernen Esperanto", written by Willhelm und Hans Wingen, 6th revised edition from 1960 teaches "laborema = arbeitsam" and "sparema = sparsam". And for -igi it does even point to the fact that the Esperanto suffix is similar to and derived from a German one: Esperanto "pura -> purigi" vs. German "rein -> reinigen". Let me emphasize one thing : Such a collection as yours in this thread is very interesting, instructive and useful, and I am actually sure that by learning Esperanto everybody can increase his linguistic awareness and abilities. The only thing I don't agree with is the label "Not Indo-European". The more I look at the examples the less it seems to fit. (Even the opposite would make a good and maybe even better statement: "Look how similar these languages, which are said to be so exotic and strange, are to the well known Indo-European ones." imho only, of course) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5521 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 11 of 16 24 November 2010 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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More Finnish-Esperanto parallels that I'll look up examples for if you want:
-tar = -ino, -sto = -ejo, -lainen = -ano, epä- = mal-, -uus/-us = -eco. It would be pretty easy to transfer large amounts of vocabulary between the languages using these suffix parallels, I think. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7219 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 12 of 16 18 March 2014 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
I was pretty unaware how huge this was at the time, as I did not look up the different languages. I am not able to edit that post, so I am following it up with this one. It is not just selected languages on this list, but language families that have Agglutination, so it does not seem so strange for that particular feature after learning Esperanto. Esperanto being an easier language to learn, it offers help in minor ways people might not realize. Help no matter how small makes a difference in the long run. Here 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 13 of 16 18 March 2014 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Btw, if you want to edit an old post, hit the quote button and remove the "M=Q&" part of the link, it'll take you to the edit page.
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7219 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 14 of 16 18 March 2014 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, but in this case it made me realize the thread bump allows others to read it. If it was edited and the last post was made 2010, the inactivity does not make it likely members would have seen the information. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 15 of 16 19 March 2014 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that it's often better to add a new post that others will actually see than edit an old one that very few people will ever go back to re-read.
Do you think Esperanto will really give you that much of an advantage for agglutinative languages? In Basque, for example, i can't think of that many situations where Esperanto has helped me to understand the agglutinative aspect of it. Some things, like the -ari ending, match up with the -isto forms pretty well, but generally i've found Chinese and German surprisingly more helpful. Do you have any personal experience with it? I'd be interested to hear more about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7219 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 16 of 16 23 March 2014 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
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@Crush, No personal experience with the agglutination yet with other languages, but looking forward to it. The Austronesian languages have this feature, so I will learn Indonesian, Tagalog and Cebuano first. It was my intent anyway, but did not know they were agglutinating also. I do not believe Esperanto will give a big advantage in learning agglutinating languages, but a minor one. It is probably getting used to the idea. I pm'd a member named Fasulye about it four years ago on this topic. She replied, in her experience that Latin in school helped more with learning Turkish, than Esperanto. If I like the logic with Esperanto, then I will like how logical Turkish is also. I have actually even played with the word order of Esperanto, so I can get used to other word orders from other languages. I normally use SVO, but I also use OSV for some reason,when I first learned it. Tagalog and Cebuano are VOS, so I will play around with that before I learn them. Just one small aspect helped you with Basque, add it with the other languages, it will be that much more effective. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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