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There is a fringe theory, that agglutinative languages with consistent vocabulary are more effortless for children to learn. So children would spend less time l
by sampo 5y ago
There is a fringe theory, that agglutinative languages with consistent vocabulary are more effortless for children to learn. So children would spend less time learning and memorizing words, and could proceed faster to learn other things.
English vocabulary is a patchwork with origins from several different languages, so words with related meaning can look different. Whereas for example Finnish is consistent:
kirjoittaa – to write
kirjailija – writer
kirja – book
kirje – letter
kirjasto – library
kirjallisuus – literature
kirjasin – font
In this way, you can learn the same vocabulary by learning maybe 5x smaller amount of root words.
http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/ http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/
- jiggawatts 5y agoI learned to read and write Hungarian in a matter of weeks. It is spelled phonetically, with only a handful of special cases. It's hilariously easy. English is a random mish-mash of at least four languages, making it seem very random and ad-hoc. However, it mercifully uses the latin alphabet. Chinese is just a nightmare, with students spending most of their schooling just to become literate...
- tigerlily 5y agoWhich resources did you use to learn to rw Hungarian so fast?
- jiggawatts 5y agoI learned in the first few weeks of primary school. Most students achieved literacy in the same time frame, a few months at most for the slower kids.