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| RBenham Triglot Groupie IndonesiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5645 days ago 60 posts - 62 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Indonesian | Message 9 of 12 22 June 2009 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
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Reineke, I think my post covered most of the points you mentioned.
On the subject of scholarly purposes, I think that depends even more on your goals. If I want to study mediaeval European History, Latin is a must, and I suppose that means that, if I am only interested in learning languages from one language sub-family, I had better be interested in the Romance countries. If I am interested in Western music, it gets complicated, because it seems to be difficult to get by without both German and Italian.... Early Christianity? Hmmmm. Greek, Latin, Coptic, Hebrew.... not even in the same (big) family.... (Similarly for Buddhism....) I am not sure what you mean by calling English an "isolating language". What does it isolate? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5768 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 10 of 12 22 June 2009 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
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Morpheme per word.
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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6449 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 11 of 12 23 June 2009 at 4:36am | IP Logged |
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Lol, have fun with it. If Indo-European is too much to chew, you can go for "Centum" languages. You get your Greek and Latin, English and French, practically the entire Western world in a neat package. Or you can look at the similarities between Germanic and Balto-Slavic. Make love, not war. Makes more sense than chasing the Teutonic spirit.
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| RBenham Triglot Groupie IndonesiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5645 days ago 60 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Indonesian | Message 12 of 12 24 June 2009 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
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Hmmm. On the subject of Balto-Slavic, that might be interesting from an intellectual point of view. Maybe one could start with Sorbian and proceed eastwards?
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