It is often easy to guess the meaning of written words in one of them if we know the meaning of corresponding words in the other. Indeed we can go far beyond guesswork. If we know something about the history of sound correspondence (Chapter V, p. 185). To make the best of our knowledge we should also know something about the evolution of writing itself. Use of rules given in them while wandering about the corridors of the miniature language museum of Part IV. One example must suffice for the present. The grammar differences explained in detail are super useful to get a grasp of multiple languages. Understanding the core concepts allows you to broaden your view and get an understanding in a better way. Despite learning a language being much more than mastering the grammar, understanding better the grammar also helps, and tracing similarities makes it easier. A statement that the "information in the notification is accurate", and "under penalty of perjury, the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed"

If you dream of learning more than one language from the following list, read/skim this book and use the tips. It will save you time and effort overall. The list: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, plus the languages in the above quote. The ideas will also work for languages like Catalan and Romanian, but you will have to find the relative shifts somewhere else, which won't be hard to do once you understand how they usually work. limey75 Yellow Belt Posts: 76 Joined: Wed May 25, 2016 11:30 am Location: UK Languages: English (N); intermediate: German, Norwegian, Old English. The book was edited by Bodmer’s friend Lancelot Hogben, a zoologist turned popular science writer and inventor of the auxiliary language Interglossa, and was part of a series of books entitled Primers for the Age of Plenty that also included volumes on mathematics, general science, and history. The science and history books are long out of print, but the mathematics book, Mathematics for the Million, remains available. (I, of course, own a copy and will review it eventually…) Sidenote: In linguistic circles people love to dig into exceptions and point out when rules break down, which can make learners abandon something incredibly useful for fear of making mistakes. But you should not be discouraged by ivory-tower elitism. You are going to make mistakes and fall into traps no matter what, so don’t get discouraged by exceptions.I have been interested in languages since my big sister started learning her first foreign language and I realized there is such a thing... I was 5. So I know a lot of the things in this book.

The book seems outdated in some parts. As languages are living organisms you will find some words here and there in German, English, Portuguese, etc, which are different nowadays, but by no means turns it into a bad reading experience, on the contrary, we see how the languages are still evolving. Just be aware. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of the infringing activity and that is to be removed

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It is divided into four parts. Part I is a “natural history” of language. Part II covers the “hybrid heritage” of English as a language which straddles the Germanic and Romance branches of the Indo-European language tree. Part III covers language problems and planning movements. Part IV is a “language museum” of comparative vocabulary tables. Anyone who loves languages simply has to read this book cover to cover. Bodmer manages to present many of the more interesting anecdotes of linguistic lore in a truly accessible fashion, which alone is worth the time of working through this sizable volume. This book is a product of its time. The author was multilingual but not a linguist. The book was written right after WWII. The author's purpose was to aid people to be able to communicate with each other so that understanding between people would contribute to the prevention of future wars. Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.

that you have any inquiry or need to eliminate any substance recorded here if it's not too much trouble, go FluentU offers authentic videos in French, Spanish, German, English, Chinese and Japanese. Learn from captions and translations. garyb Brown Belt Posts: 1494 Joined: Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:35 pm Location: Scotland Languages: Native: English But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.... unreservedly accessible pdf archives on the Internet. We don't have any document on our server. In the eventCondition: Good. Good condition. Armed Services edition #893 (Reference, Language, learning, Linguistics) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. The first part of the book starts with the history of human language and alphabets and leads into morphology and syntax of several languages, and ends with the classification of languages throughout the world. The second part focuses on learning vocabulary (from the given lists) taking advantage of similarities among languages and sound shifts that cause predictable changes from one language to another. What I always found most important, however, was the assertion that you should learn certain words first, such as personal pronouns, auxiliary verbs, demonstratives, prepositions, conjunctions, etc. (essentially function words) because they are the most common and least recognizable when they change cases. He has a very interesting way of presenting things, and drawing conclusions, and associating thing. Well... to me, at least.

The Loom was an interesting high-level academic read of the history of many languages. Its primary focus is on Western European languages. It uses written Chinese as a language to use as a grammar syntax benchmark, and takes a shallow look into other languages like Persian, Bantu, Arabic, and others — including some Slavic. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-22 12:14:29 Associated-names Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975 Boxid IA40271805 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Other similar books teach you to learn any language, including those outside the Indo-European language family that share literally nothing with your native tongue, English. The Loom of Language starts with multiple chapters about linguistics. (contra Benny the Polyglot, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World who counsels speaking on Day 1, and Kaufmann, The Way of the Linguist: A Language Learning Odyssey who would have me reading text with native speaker audio on Day 1).I’m looking forward to someday using the section about working within the Romance and Teutonic languages. e.g. if you know the German or Dutch word, you can deduce the meaning of Swedish or Danish words. Here's an example from the Lord's Prayer that many English speakers could probably read already. It is divided into four parts. Part I is a "natural history" of language. Part II covers the "hybrid heritage" of English as a language which straddles the Germanic and Romance branches of the Indo-European language tree. Part III covers language problems and planning movements. Part IV is a "language museum" of comparative vocabulary tables.