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| ilanbg Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6411 days ago 166 posts - 189 votes  Speaks: French, English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (classical), Persian | Message 9 of 14 15 May 2007 at 11:43am | IP Logged |
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Hah, that's quite a bit of useful information, thanks.
Just curious... how long would you say it would take for a person to become proficient (not necessarily fluent, but comfortable enough that one can learn simply through use and practice, rather than mechanical learning) in the language? I'd like to thank y'all for your replies, again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 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 10 of 14 15 May 2007 at 11:59am | IP Logged |
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That depends on how much time you invest per week and what languages you know so far. Knowing French and Spanish, the vocabulary of Esperanto will probably be very easy for you. The grammar is easy for everybody. What remains is the affixes - if you have a talent for that, you can pick up Esperanto incredibly fast. Some famous polyglot (forgot his name) reported getting a very good understanding of Esperanto by sitting down with a grammar, a dictionary and a couple texts for one evening. I don't think regular mortals can learn it that fast, but fast nonetheless.
For example, I'd say that the free 10-lesson course (at least the German version I did) is quite enough to get you up to that level. Plus you get free tutoring, i. e. you study the lessons on your own but you send in exercises and any questions to a tutor who will correct you, explain things and help you along. The lessons are rather long, containing 2 lesson texts and more than 50 new words each, but even if you take them at a very relaxed pace of one lesson every two weeks you will be at that level after 5 months maximum - much faster than you can hope to be in any other foreign language. Of course there are some people in this forum reporting to do 4 lessons a week or something, see the logs... Edited by Sprachprofi on 15 May 2007 at 12:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ilanbg Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6411 days ago 166 posts - 189 votes Speaks: French, English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (classical), Persian | Message 11 of 14 15 May 2007 at 12:30pm | IP Logged |
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I'll look into it, thank you very much for the help.
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| virgule Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6841 days ago 242 posts - 261 votes Studies: Korean | Message 12 of 14 15 May 2007 at 12:40pm | IP Logged |
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There's an article in today's (Independent newspaper (UK) about the return of Latin in schools: here.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 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 13 of 14 15 May 2007 at 12:40pm | IP Logged |
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Actually, though everybody talks of "the 10-lesson course", I just had a look at the English and French versions and they are nothing like the German one. They are much more focussed on grammar and on single sentences, whereas the German course is situation-based with modern dialogues. I guess "Ana Pana" at Lernu is the best option for English speakers for now, followed by "Ana renkontas" or "Gerda malaperis".
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6440 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 14 of 14 15 May 2007 at 1:27pm | IP Logged |
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I second Sprachprofi's suggestion of "Gerda Malaperis"; I'm currently working through it, and it's quite good.
The way I'm doing it is to go from English->Esperanto at the beginning, by typing, and then do only the problem words until I've typed everything correctly on the first try at least once. Then, I read and shadow the lessons (they have text -and- audio), and only have to click on a few words to be reminded of what they mean. It's the most pleasant way to study Esperanto that I've yet found. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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