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글쓴이: erinja, 2012년 9월 3일

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Vestitor (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오전 12:42:34

erinja:I don't care how easy it is to learn Esperanto, you can't understand much on your first day of studying it, even passively, unless you've studied other languages before.
This is an interesting comment. It seems to contradict the idea that Esperanto is a useful bridge to other more complicated languages, which is the rationale behind teaching it to primary school children.

Do you mean to suggest that Esperanto is as non-intuitive,or intuitive to the same level as natural languages?

RiotNrrd (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오전 1:02:43

Vestitor:Do you mean to suggest that Esperanto is as non-intuitive,or intuitive to the same level as natural languages?
I don't mean to speak for erinja, but I'm guessing she means exactly what she said.

It doesn't matter how intuitive or non-intuitive a language is; there is a ramp-up period in the beginning of learning ANY language during which you aren't going to be able to effectively communicate in, or necessarily even understand very much of, it.

Certainly you are very unlikely to reach fluency on your first day.

darkweasel (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오전 11:29:09

Suggestion for solving sudanglo’s problem: There could be a lingva anarĥiujo (maybe the study groups board could be renamed, it seems barely used as-is anyway) where all languages are allowed in any thread, and you may even answer in another language than the thread is in.

Note that sometimes people who don’t speak the national language the board is in do add very good comments to a discussion, or help beginners. It may be possible to solve this as follows: You can mark a post in a national language forum as "requesting translation to (national language)". Then, it does not show up immediately but just as "1 post requesting translation to (national language)" and other users who speak both Esperanto and the national language can translate it. Then both the original Esperanto and the translation contributed by a user would show up.

This may be technically somewhat complicated and I am not sure if it is worth the pain, however.

sudanglo (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오전 11:40:06

There's an enormous difference between passive comprehension of text and active spoken command, or even ability to compose text.

And what learner would be participating in the forums on his first day of study?

Rather than suggesting that Google translate should be used to create a post in broken English (not something I am not happy to read), it would be better to suggest that beginners desperate to understand the occasional post in Esperanto in some thread largely written in English, should use Google Translate to aid their comprehension.

Using Google Translate to understand for the freŝbakito seems fine. But using Google Translate to communicate seems to suggest that Esperanto is irrelevant - that even the Esperantists have lost faith in their central argument that Esperanto is a better solution than the national languages.

Vestitor (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오후 1:06:33

RiotNrrd:
Vestitor:Do you mean to suggest that Esperanto is as non-intuitive,or intuitive to the same level as natural languages?
I don't mean to speak for erinja, but I'm guessing she means exactly what she said.

It doesn't matter how intuitive or non-intuitive a language is; there is a ramp-up period in the beginning of learning ANY language during which you aren't going to be able to effectively communicate in, or necessarily even understand very much of, it.

Certainly you are very unlikely to reach fluency on your first day.
That's not exactly what it means though is it? The suggestion is that it's going nowhere unless a person coming to Esperanto first has a background in other languages. It's probably true, a knowledge of other languages does aid learning.

I'm not offering the opinion that a person will join Lernu and expect to be conversant within the hour! Surely at least that much must be clear?

Rugxdoma (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오후 3:20:19

sudanglo:
The only thing that gets up my nose is over-insistence on the banning of posts in Esperanto, or the mechanical repetition of 'This is the English Forum'.
I think most of the problems discussed could be solved by adding one more rule to the existing site rules: "In national language fora Esperanto is allowed only if the thread has gone off topic." I think the problems would then in most cases be solved automatically, without need of a moderators intervention. More and more participants would start using Esperanto in their following postings, which would helps both their own and others' learning, some participants would become less active, without the bad feeling of having been banned, and an interesting off-topic subject could continue and most likely be followable for most participants.

codesito (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오후 4:07:18

This faden better be too en eo, is not? Tiel, ne angloparolantoj ankaŭ povus opinii, is not?

sudanglo (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오후 4:20:47

In national language forums Esperanto is allowed only if the thread has gone off topic
Why?

Isn't it perfectly possible that Forumanoj who can read the national language but not write it, might have some highly pertinent and interesting comments to make on-topic - which they could make if allowed to do so in E.

Hyperboreus (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오후 4:44:27

Forigite

darkweasel (프로필 보기) 2012년 9월 6일 오후 4:47:28

codesito:This faden better be too en eo, is not? Tiel, ne angloparolantoj ankaŭ povus opinii, is not?
Sure, and it even actually is in Esperanto as well!

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