The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

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The authors really take this to heart and work towards basic vocabularies analogous to the Word List of Basic English. A terceira parte comenta os projetos de línguas artificiais e a última traz lista de palavras para estudo. This last point really shows the assumptions made but not clarified in the first part, namely that learning a language is about memorizing a list of words and "redundancies" in language must be bad.

Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know. I love the word dictionary at the back, and i would love to have the same but for phrases for select languages. Whereas for German, the grammar is insanely difficult to get right, but once you know a word in German, you will be able to understand it when you hear it right away.The last third was grandpa going on a rant, mischaracterizing several international languages, and dreaming up an international auxiliary language that would be more efficient than any other invented before. I disagree with both of these points deeply, but the writing itself was so fun (you don't often have someone use terms like gewgaws and folderals) and pushed me to several clarifications of my own thought that I continued reading to the end.

There are examples like "I wash" (which means I'm bathing myself in that era) which are used to show how "English has evolved so much further than other European languages" by even being able to remove personal pronouns via the use of context.May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. I believe that the appendices (dubbed The Language Museum), in which the author gives 500 basic vocabularies for the Teutonic and Romance languages, along with the common Greek roots for the technical terminology, would alone be a worthy collection.

Nas fotos (link abaixo) coloquei dois exemplos: a semelhança do verbo ter nas línguas teutônicas e as mudanças fonéticas nas línguas românicas. WE HAVE MULTIPLE OPTIONS IN COLOR OF LEATHER RED, GREEN, BLUE, MAGENTA, TAN, DEEP BROWN, BLACK WITH DIFFERENT COLOR LABELS. Hogben was educated at Cambridge as a biologist, but never limited himself to a single field of inquiry.O livro foi publicado no Brasil, nos anos 60, com o título de O homem e as línguas: guia para o estudioso de idiomas, traduzido e adaptado pelo filólogo brasileiro Aires da Mata Machado Filho, em conjunto com Paulo Rónai e Marcello Marques Magalhães. I’m looking forward to someday using the section about working within the Romance and Teutonic languages. I recommend it heartily, but with the caveat that one might get more out of it with some time spent with more recent linguistics before diving in.

They are rightly severe on Esperanto and judiciously critical of the Jack of imagination which has accompanied so many other attempts. If you dream of learning more than one language from the following list, read/skim this book and use the tips.Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Other similar books teach you to learn any language, including those outside the Indo-European language family that share literally nothing with your native tongue, English. The ideas will also work for languages like Catalan and Romanian, but you will have to find the relative shifts somewhere else, which won't be hard to do once you understand how they usually work.