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But that's not the idea, at least for me. Learning languages is useful to keep your brain on edge. I speak French, English and German, and since I wanted to lea

by orwin 4y ago

But that's not the idea, at least for me. Learning languages is useful to keep your brain on edge. I speak French, English and German, and since I wanted to learn a Slavic language, i wanted to 'learn how to learn', a bit like learning scala in school is more interesting straight Java, because you add a FP paradigm, or coming from OO, learning ocaml might cover more than learning Haskell, despite being less pure. And i read a EU study that read something like 'rather than teaching 5 years of English at school, we might be better of teaching 2 years of Esperanto then 3 years of English, especially for people whose mother tongue isn't Germanic based'. And then explain that the difference in English fluency between northern and southern Europe cannot be solely explained by education and the maternal tongue also have a significant effect. So I'm learning Esperanto (i wanted to move to Estonia before covid, nowadays learning a new language is less pressing tbh...)

anthk 4y ago
Well, in my case I am pro practicality. I can understand 60-70% of the spoken English and almost 99% of the technical one, so with Spanish and English I can communicate with a huge chunk of people across the world. OFC writting and speaking it's very difficult to me, as I live on a non-native country, but I'm able to talk the basics of a subject at least. With Interlingua, these people are trying to do with Latin and Romances what Spanish did 500-1000 years ago first with the peninsula (Spanish was the lingua franca between the Iberian kingdoms) and later across the pond. To me it looks as if the German, Dutch, English and Norwergian/Sweden/Dane language speakers tried to create a proto Neogermanic language to be able to be understood between themselves, when they already have the English language. If any, they could just radically change the English spelling being closer to the Nordic languages (cutting down the vowel amount to a max of 7).

by orwin 4y ago

anthk 4y ago

Well, in my case I am pro practicality. I can understand 60-70% of the spoken English and almost 99% of the technical one, so with Spanish and English I can communicate with a huge chunk of people across the world. OFC writting and speaking it's very difficult to me, as I live on a non-native country, but I'm able to talk the basics of a subject at least. With Interlingua, these people are trying to do with Latin and Romances what Spanish did 500-1000 years ago first with the peninsula (Spanish was the lingua franca between the Iberian kingdoms) and later across the pond. To me it looks as if the German, Dutch, English and Norwergian/Sweden/Dane language speakers tried to create a proto Neogermanic language to be able to be understood between themselves, when they already have the English language. If any, they could just radically change the English spelling being closer to the Nordic languages (cutting down the vowel amount to a max of 7).