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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| mithridates wrote: |
| A lot of IAL advocates think Papiamento would make a good world language for its simplicity but close similarity to current major languages. |
Isn't that what they said about Esperanto? |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| A lot of IAL advocates think Papiamento would make a good world language for its simplicity but close similarity to current major languages. |
Isn't that what they said about Esperanto? |
Some. The difference is of course that Esperanto was created whereas Papiamento just sprung into being over time. There's a lot of resistance to the idea of an artificial language, as if a language created would somehow not be able to function.
This is a really interesting project by the way, but one that makes no pretense about being simple to learn:
http://dnghu.org/
It's modeled after the revival of Hebrew, but for the entire Indo-European language family. |
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chriswylson
Joined: 20 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| How about getting laid sometime? |
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Bearach
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Irish, French, and German. |
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Ekolye
Joined: 23 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| French (fluent), Spanish (a little) |
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big_blue_21
Joined: 02 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: |
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korea (a little), spanish (a little), french (a little) . . . I'm thinking about learning a little Farsi since I have Pimsleur Farsi at home from my more ambitious days . . .
I put myself at a 2 out of 5 in the first three, maybe I can get my Farsi up to a 1 (I'm thinking basic, basic) with Pimsleur.
I learned the Hindi and Arabic alphabets too (and of course hangul) . . . |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| donselma wrote: |
korea (a little), spanish (a little), french (a little) . . . I'm thinking about learning a little Farsi since I have Pimsleur Farsi at home from my more ambitious days . . .
I put myself at a 2 out of 5 in the first three, maybe I can get my Farsi up to a 1 (I'm thinking basic, basic) with Pimsleur.. |
There's a surprisingly good (considering how few people learn the language) website that you can use as well:
http://www.easypersian.com
Page formatting is a bit 90s but there's tons of content, including songs as well. |
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big_blue_21
Joined: 02 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| oh, thanks, man, I'll check it all right--that's all right, the 90's was also the decade of Saved By the Bell!!! . . . |
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lohengrin
Joined: 16 Mar 2008
Location: Loompaland
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and a little bit of Icelandic, Finnish and German |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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I studied French, Greek, Italian, Russian, Anglo-Saxon and Latin in the past. I know a good amount of Spanish from working in restaurants all my life.
Obviously Korean is something I am learning now. I want to become fluent in French someday and want to learn some Czech and German in the future. |
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alex83
Joined: 03 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Russian. |
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davai!
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| За чем пишите по-романскии? Очень просто напечетать по-кирилскии! |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| donselma wrote: |
korea (a little), spanish (a little), french (a little) . . . I'm thinking about learning a little Farsi since I have Pimsleur Farsi at home from my more ambitious days . . .
I put myself at a 2 out of 5 in the first three, maybe I can get my Farsi up to a 1 (I'm thinking basic, basic) with Pimsleur.. |
There's a surprisingly good (considering how few people learn the language) website that you can use as well:
http://www.easypersian.com
Page formatting is a bit 90s but there's tons of content, including songs as well. |
That site is great. I used it before going to Iran and I was able to make basic conversations, which of course now I completely forget. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| A lazy student of Korean for the past 2-1/2 decades. I used to know some Greek and Finnish. |
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WoBW
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: HBC
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Used to be a grade A student in French, but that was 20 years ago.
Survival Thai. |
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