Why Study Languages?

Thunderbird President Angel Cabrera, Ph.D., talks Nov. 6, 2009, in Macau.

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Education

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• language
• requirement
• MBA
• Thunderbird
• Global
• Reunion
• Angel
• Cabrera
• Macau

[humilulo]

(Ido is easier to learn than Esperanto too. i have applied myself at both languages. i love Ido! but i still like Esperanto. it's still a great language, just not a great "international" language, in my opinion, after studying both.) more Ido info can be found by searching for "Ido linguo" in any search engine website. but both languages are true works of art. Esperanto was created by an eye doctor. Ido was created by a team of linguists. i encourage anyone to checked out both languages.

[humilulo]

Ido is another language created for the same purpose, to be an international helper language, to be easy to learn by anyone in the world, like esperanto, except Ido uses the indisputable international alphabet (the same we use in English). we can actually read Ido on any device that can display English letters. Esperanto needs special translation techniques to convert true esperanto characters into an x-code that can be displayed on English devices. and that takes much extra work.

[humilulo]

Esperanto is a nice language. but why use an "International" language when it cannot even be typed on international keyboards and viewed on cell phones? i copied hundreds of files and then replaced every special character from the x method to the real character in hundreds of HTML pages. a few years later i learned those characters cannot be displayed on my cell phone. some "international" language. :( but E-o is still a great language. it just falls short of a good "international" language.

[sbelanto]

One way to overcome the problem with exchanging a monolingual view with merely a bilingual view of the world is by studying a language with a world view like Esperanto. Its study forges global connections wherever the student’s interest may lie while building a multi-cultural world view.

[sbelanto]

Moreover, Esperanto serves as an ideal language model, having phonetic orthography, regular, consistent conjugations and declensions, logical grammar, and ingenious systems of word building. In spite of its streamlined nature, Esperanto’s sophisticated and exacting enough to be have been used in a wide assortment of technologies, and prolific literature has shown its vocabulary can describe the finest nuances of meaning.

[sbelanto]

In this way, learning Esperanto creates enthusiasm and competency for subsequent study of and conversational skills in other languages. Therefore, it is should be no surprise to learn that studies have not only born out that Esperanto can be mastered in a fraction of the time of national languages, but that its study more than makes up for the time spent learning it by substantially accelerating subsequent language learning.

[alkantre]

@5Language Yes, indeed.

[5Language]

@alkantre Yeah, this is a great video.

[alkantre]

the guy is totally right, but learning languages is sheer pleasure, no torture at all.