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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4586 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 9 of 26 24 October 2014 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, tarvos.
The only other Slavic ones I've thought of this afternoon are prava (right, in the sense 'correct') and this one which I warn you is rude but I'm certain it must come from a Slavic language because it's almost the same word in Croatian. Learning the difference between the aforementioned word and the Esperanto word for pizza (pico) is incidentally the best way for beginners in Esperanto to grasp the difference between 'c' and 'ĉ'. You only make the mistake of saying 'Mi volas manĝi piĉon' once :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5012 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 26 24 October 2014 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I gave Esperanto a try (like 20 hours? Perhaps less) and I was surprised by the fast progress. I had covered grammar for as much use as you normally study a year (if you are not slow). But I don't think the propedeutic miracle would still apply as it was my fourth or so language. I got bored, found out it was mostly a romance mix, not the promis romance-germanic-slavic, found out it interfered with my French and Spanish much more than the two of them interfered with each other. So I left. I totally agree with Serpent about Latin being a much better propedeutic language despite (or perhaps thanks to) being really hard (I had three years of Latin total, one of them was medical latin and left with intermediate knowledge).
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 26 24 October 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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LOL I didn't know the word. wiktionary has some Slavic examples :D Russian is one of the few not represented.
And the opposite looks hilarious to me with this spelling. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4050 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 12 of 26 24 October 2014 at 10:17pm | IP Logged | ||
And how do you see Esperanto as a propedeutic language to Latin? :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 13 of 26 24 October 2014 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pointless. Your native Italian (and French, Spanish) will be much more important for Latin. I also think you should find it easier than I or Cavesa did.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 14 of 26 24 October 2014 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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My Latin teacher was an Italian woman and it was much easier for her to translate back
through Italian. Italian and Latin are the closest to each other, although Romanian has conserved some very odd words from Latin in cases where all the other Romance languages diverged. Edited by tarvos on 24 October 2014 at 10:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4586 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 15 of 26 24 October 2014 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
+1 The only thing you can be sure you will achieve by learning Esperanto is speaking Esperanto :) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5348 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 16 of 26 24 October 2014 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Learn Esperanto if you are interested in Esperanto itself.
I can't imagine it being more efficient to learn Esperanto first if your goal is learning another language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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