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| madalieninvader Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5711 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 11 April 2009 at 1:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Mi estas komencanto. As an easy, logical language I'm already finding things I don't like. Nevertheless after about one month of study I like it better and can use it more than the French I "learned" for some years in public school.
The main thing I was wondering about are synonyms, which Esperanto seems to have in abundance. This is expected as you could say doctor by "kuracisto" or maybe "sanigiisto" or in other ways. The thing is with all these synonyms the vocabulary seems bloated. I think even English doesn't have more than one word for doctor. The other problem with synonyms I imagine would be imported versus derived words. In science and other areas some words are international being Greco-Latin but could also be derived from already used roots. This could be remedied by La Akademio de Esperanto or some other thing which lists only the best or most popular word to use. A descriptive, prescriptive or both vocabulary. Or a thesaurus which lists the most popular word, most logical word and all the others. Does anyone know of such a work, website or organization? Or even a frequency listing of most used and/or preferred words? If not someone should make one. Maybe me after I master the language. I love Esperanto but the synonyms seem to me a major problem that can be wholly or partially remedied. Edited by madalieninvader on 11 April 2009 at 1:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6706 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 2 of 4 11 April 2009 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
Hate to nitpick, but:
Doctor = physician Edited by Raincrowlee on 11 April 2009 at 2:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 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 3 of 4 11 April 2009 at 9:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Or healer...
The "bona lingvo" standard means that if possible, you want to use words based on common word roots rather than adding a new word root to the language. So some people may say "prizono"(prison), but a lot more will say "malliberejo" (mal-liber-ejo). Poets may use "olda" (old) when they need something short, but in everyday talk you will hear "maljuna" 95% of the time. My recommendation for you is to learn all the bold word roots from the list at http://www.lujz.org/komencanto/listo.k.php (I can also provide an Anki file containing these words along with example sentences and common derivations). Practise building lots of words from one root, so that you're really comfortable with that and can do it quickly in conversation. After you have mastered that, get a lot of exposure - songs, stories with pop-up dictionary at Lernu, Gerda Malaperis, Fajron Sentas Mi Interne, magazines and newspapers and websites, meet-ups... From this exposure you should easily learn the non-bold word roots on that list, along with the practise, and that should be enough. Once you're at a week-long meet-up, you'll probably come out of it fluent and thinking in Esperanto. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5668 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 4 of 4 24 May 2009 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Try the dictionary on lernu.com. It uses the most common ways of saying things. Good luck! Mi amas Esperanton!
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