Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:36:58 +0800: LEE Sau Dan
<danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

So, Esperanto is difficult to learn.

I doubt it. But I don't know it very well myself, so perhaps you're
right.

You not only need to learn the
above possibilities (which are rarely used), but also learn what most
users employ, which resembles their own languages. That's a lot of
things to learn. Russian speakers speak Esperanto in a very Russian
way. Hungarian speakers speak Esperanto in a very Hungarian way.
Japanese speakers speak Esperanto in a very Japanese way, ...

That is to be expected. I wonder if these differences are very marked
in practice. I never noticed it, but my own experience with Esperanto
is very limited.

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com


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