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| shadad Pentaglot Newbie VenezuelaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6661 days ago 38 posts - 41 votes 3 sounds Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Spanish*, English, French, Italian, Portuguese Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, German | Message 1 of 11 13 September 2006 at 1:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to learn an artificial language. While Esperanto is the most popular one, I find that the Interlingua is friendlier.
What do you think about this artificial languages? Which one you like the most? Thanks. Edited by shadad on 06 October 2006 at 12:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6829 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 2 of 11 13 September 2006 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
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If I were going to learn one, it would definitely be Lingua Franca Nova (LFN).
It is the best one, in my opinion, because it's perfectly phonetic, has zero irregularities, and has the simplest grammar. I don't understand the point of conlangs that are not like that - especially the simplicity part. By the way, I believe it is based on romance languages and english. link 1 link 2 Edited by AML on 13 September 2006 at 1:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kimsuhee Tetraglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 6950 days ago 27 posts - 28 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Korean*, Mandarin, EnglishC1, German | Message 3 of 11 13 September 2006 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I have read that there are between 100,000 and 2 million Esperanto speakers and even native speakers are about a thousand.But for Interlingua,there are only beteen 1000 and 1500 speakers.So when I were you,I'd learn Esperanto for practical reason.But for me personly,I prefer to learn normal languages than learn artificial languages.
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| el topo Diglot Groupie Belgium Joined 6764 days ago 66 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Dutch | Message 4 of 11 13 September 2006 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I may be wrong but I think Esperanto is the only constructed language that you can actually use. All other artificial languages do not have enough speakers. I would choose Esperanto, although it is clearly not the best one.
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| breckes Triglot Groupie Belgium Joined 6803 days ago 84 posts - 89 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian Studies: Italian, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 11 13 September 2006 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I clearly prefer Esperanto. Interlingua and Lingua Franca Nova look too much like Spanish. In my opinion, Esperanto has a stronger character; it has its own "taste" : I like particularly its strong agglutinativity and the fact that all nouns ends in -o, all adjectives in -a, and so on.
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| lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6688 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German | Message 6 of 11 13 September 2006 at 8:37am | IP Logged | ||
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6872 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 7 of 11 13 September 2006 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd say give Esperanto a whirl. If you are going to learn an auxilliary language, why not learn the one that is probably the most well-known. It's flawed, of course, but nothing's perfect. Why the interest in constructed languages, anyway?
Actually, one of the most fascinating to me is Klingon. Constructed by a professional linguist, with cues taken from Native American languages, it's fun, but not "friendly" on the throat. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Laurentio Diglot Newbie Denmark falcatorrosa2.blogsp Joined 6646 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Danish*, English | Message 8 of 11 19 September 2006 at 11:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, I am an interlingua speaker and I came across your post while googling for 'interlingua'.
Which language you should choose depends mostly on what your purpose is for learning a constructed language. If your purpose is mostly social in nature I am sad to say that you might be somewhat disappointed by interlingua. There are only international conferences every second year (always in Europe), and the web community is not the most lively. And forget all about scoring some hot interlingua babes, unless you like women in in their sixties. ;-) That being said there are also some advantages to interlingua. Many people (such as myself) learn interlingua to be better able to communicate with romance speaking people. I have seen several accounts that people have been able to communicate to a certain extent with Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese speakers (and one account about French) using interlingua. The main problem is then that the interlingua speaker may not understand the persons s/he is speaking to although they understand him/her. The two main reasons I can see for you to learn Interlingua is: 1) It might help you in your studies of Italian, French, Spanish, and English, since they are among the source languages on which Interlingua is based. (The other ones are German, Russian, and Portuguese.) 2) Being a speaker of Portuguese it would probably be very easy for you to learn Interlingua. As mentioned above you should actually be able to understand large parts of it without having studied it. (You can test this by having a look at my blog. Feel free to leave a comment about how much you understand. You don't have to register to write comments.) Hopes this helps. :-) Lars 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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