Friday, January 8, 2021

Artificial, Easy, Logical Languages: Esperanto and Interlingua


Esperanto

I have tried the Esperanto course in Duolingo. It is the most logical language. Years ago I signed up for a correspondence course. I still have the dictionary. 

The history fascinates me. It is a great language for beginners who struggle with languages. It is really good for people whose own language is not known outside their country. Hungarians like Esperanto and have it as a school and exam subject.

But all day long I am learning words from other languages because they sound similar to English. Therefore I realise that a language taking common words, rather than following a logical pattern, is the system which suits me. I would like to suggest Interlingua to Duolingo. How do I do it? 

Interlingua

Meanwhile, even if Duolingo agree, I shall have to wait until they start the course. Meanwhile, I followed the link from Wikipedia and found a one way dictionary, from Interlingua words to English words. That would help with Interlingua's own website which is all in Interlingua. I tried looking up the word grammar in the one way dictionary and could not find it. What should I do next? 

Useful Websites

https://osxdaily.com/2017/03/22/type-accents-mac-easy/

https://context.reverso.net/translation/windows-mac-app

(Avast sent me a warning about this. My husband told me to ignore that warnings. 'Avast is just trying to sell an upgrade.') 

Useful Language learning Websites

duolingo.com

Interlingua
An artificial language using commonly used words from mainly romance languages. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

Demo of how easy to read it is from the bible and the US declaration of independence.

http://www.interlingua.com


Not to be confused with interlingo which links you with paid translators.

MEMRISE
A system which allows you to save your memory aids for each word, and see memory aids from other people.

memrise.com

earworms.com

Bella, 7 languages at the age of 4, shopping on stage on TV in Australian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9u9N7Z4TU

About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages and gives talks and workshops on language and learning languages. For workshops contact annalondon8@gmail.com

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