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[ronaldo2812]

Communication could be so much easier if there existed one common, global language. But which language should it be?

Should it be English, Spanish, Mandarin? Or would Esperanto or any other artificial, international language be better suitable?

On the following website you can take part in the first global election - vote for the best language you can think of and make your voice heard with your comments and ideas:

www.freewebs.com/international-languages


Ronaldo

[Dreamcatcher]

Serious barries among people lie not in languages but in education and culture. People can easily learn some language but they may keep being ignorant to problems of other people because they don`t know their culture, tradions, their history.
Standarts of behavior in one country can be banned or ridiculous in other. History always give examples of ignorance of current governers. History made a circle by a circle, a war follows by one more war. If only people can study on mistakes.... on their own mistakes....

[ronaldo2812]

>>History always give examples of ignorance of current governers. History made a circle by a circle, a war follows by one more war. If only people can study on mistakes.... on their own mistakes....

I fully buy into that, unfortunately.

>>Serious barries among people lie not in languages but in education and culture. People can easily learn some language but...

I am not sure about that. Mastering languages other than your mother tongue takes an awful lot of time even though you know their culture and traditions. It simply takes time to master an extensive vocabulary, complex grammar, difficult writing etc. of other languages.

If it was just one language this would be fine, but learning so many different ones.

That's why the development of a single global language with certain criteria would make sense.

Have you read the criteria as outlined on the mentioned website?

Apart from that I find your opinion quite interesting - why not share your ideas and views on the new forum which is dedicated to the topic of a global language.

http://www.freewebs.com/international-languages/forum.htm

[Dreamcatcher]

I meant the only language wouldn`t unite people, it will help people only talk easily but the imposing universe will stay among them. For example, we speak here in English but many of us don`t understand each other and even they don`t want to try to understand.... they`re sure they are clever, that their principles are right and .... unshakable...
That what i meant, but i agree with you that the one language would make people closer. I think EU has the biggest chances to find such a language because united processes there are the best in the world.

[Dreamcatcher]

I`m sure the following information will be interesting for you. According to a russian sientist, only one laguage was existed many thousands years ago. There was no other languages than this one. You must have known that human life appeared in Africa. That`s also the world-known scientific hypothesis.
After that, people start to migrate to other parts of the world. Years were coming and this one language transformed to many languages. So, some groupes of languages appeared like Indian, Kelt, Roman-German and so on. And than these languages divided to many else.
And this russian scientist is recognized as the best linguist in the world. There are only about 40 such scientists in the world, two main schools (russian and american) and a half of scientists are situated in Russia.
So, it`s difficult to imagine that hystory will go back. In USSR was one common language - russian. There were, of course, national languages (ukranian, belarus and others) but they weren`t used much. USSR was broken and we`ve got now many used languages. Every former soviet republic wants their people to use only national languages. And connections among countries and people of these countries get worse.