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| madagascar Newbie United Kingdom idonotliketobe Joined 6652 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Studies: EnglishB2 | Message 9 of 11 23 September 2006 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
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before learning esperanto I suggest that you have a look at http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/ where you can get a good idea about how badly designed it is from a linguistic point of view.
If you want to find a very interesting conlang, I suggest Glosa (a language slightly developed from Interglossa) you can get much information about both on http://www.glosa.org/en/ I hope you´ll have a good time learning about this interesting language as I did. it´s worth looking into it. enjoyment is guaranteed and you can learn a great deal of etymology, semantics and grammar. bye Edited by madagascar on 23 September 2006 at 8:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 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 10 of 11 24 September 2006 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
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Esperanto is definitely flawed in some respects. If you go into it thinking it will be the perfect constructed language, you are in for a surprise. It doesn't quite work as it was intended, especially as it has evolved through the past century (much like a natural language would evolve). But every language, especially constructed ones, are going to have things in it that cause snags for learners/speakers.
It's controversial and so naturally be the target of criticism, but as a language, it does function well enough, for example it has both original and translated literature. Not the same could be said about the idea of using it as the International Language, but a language is only a tool, after all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Leeeoooooo Newbie United States Joined 6690 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Studies: Spanish, English* Studies: German, Japanese | Message 11 of 11 02 October 2006 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
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I would like to heartily second the vote for Lingua Franca Nova (LFN)
I was immediately attracted to it when I found that I could already understand about half of it without a lesson! This should be roughly understandable to anyone already familiar with any romance language. It was designed to be easily learned and of most use as a generic language for the European Union. While the grammar is greatly simplified, the vocabulary is useful for any romance language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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