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

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The first is an impressive presentation of well-selected facts about languages — mainly Teutonic and Romance, those with which Anglo-American (to use the authors’ term) is most closely connected. Anyone who loves learning languages will certainly benefit from his practical advice on how to focus on a combination of important vocabulary and how to triangulate from what you already know into a mastery of virtually every major language in Europe. 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.

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. Não é um livro para ser ‹‹lido››, mas estudado — é um livro de referência, porém a leitura é acessível aos leigos. I have been interested in languages since my big sister started learning her first foreign language and I realized there is such a thing. Book divisions: Part one - The Natural History ofLlanguage, Part Two - Our Hybrid Heritage, Part Three - The World Language Problem, Part Four - Language Museum. This book is simply awesome in documenting the history and evolution of Teutonic and Latin languages and tracing parallels of language evolution.If you dream of learning more than one language from the following list, read/skim this book and use the tips. A synthetic international language must wait for adoption upon political and educational conditions which are not yet in sight. There is so much great information in here that it requires repeat readings over several years, especially Part II. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A terceira parte comenta os projetos de línguas artificiais e a última traz lista de palavras para estudo. Taking advantage of the Latin and Teutonic roots would greatly aid learning the Romance and Germanic languages, respectively.

An excellent contrast between the table manners and the traffic rules of a language guides the presentation. The Old English word wæter had a hard T consonant that survived to English, but evolved to “ss” and softened in German.