Mesaĝoj: 34
Lingvo: English
sudanglo (Montri la profilon) 2012-januaro-27 20:26:43
In this comparison Esperanto really is 'super-easy' even for speakers of European languages.
Even without the experience that I have of teaching English to foreigners, I could confirm this, on a daily basis, by eaves-dropping on the conversation of the many foreign students in the streets, attending TEFL classes in my home town.
Mustelvulpo (Montri la profilon) 2012-januaro-27 21:57:29
ReviewerOfTime:I'm really struggling with the phenomenon known as the "alveolar trill." Apparently, it's a sound that's used in many European languages (especially Spanish and Italian), but is totally absent in English. I know all about the similarities in tongue position that this sound shares with our "d" and "t" and how it's a vibration created by air passing over the tip of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, but I still can't seem to grasp it.One piece of advice that really helped me: Focus on the trill, not on pronouncing the r sound. If you try to do both at the same time, it's very difficult. The trill itself naturally sounds like r.
lgg (Montri la profilon) 2012-januaro-28 04:46:29
erinja:Some people interested in IALs as a class seem not to understand that most Esperantists are interested in Esperanto for what it is, not in some potential future IAL with different attributes.Great, but that doesn't stop them from attempting to push their product to schools, for state's money, imagine that brazenness. Such doublethink of both prefering own convenience over the reason, and trying to spread their rotten language is contemptible.
Bemused (Montri la profilon) 2012-januaro-28 07:32:05
lgg:trying to spread their rotten language is contemptible.Please explain Igg. You seem to have a very negative attitude toward the Esperanto language, and the people who speak it, and yet you continue to come to this forum.
If I disliked something so much I would have nothing to do with it.