simon.franova | Re: LinguaFrancaNova
> I myself was wondering how much French can be understood
> from learning this LFN language and if it is possible can
> one switch to learning French much easier once one has a
> great basic grasp of LFN?
When this question last came up (with regard to Spanish),
George (LFN's creator) gave the following answers:
"I wish I could say that lfn is the road to international
understanding... but I can't. Knowing lfn vocabulary might
help - many words are close to their Spanish counterparts --
but the grammar is nothing like Spanish, and they are likely
to look at you like you are from outer space. The same would
be true for any of the other Romance languages. Someone who
speaks one of them would pick up lfn very quickly, but not
so much the other way around!"
"I would be comfortable saying that lfn can be read quite
easily by anyone who reads Spanish, Catalan, Italian, or
Portuguese. It would be more difficult for someone who reads
French."
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinguaFrancaNova/message/2743
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinguaFrancaNova/message/2749
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinguaFrancaNova/message/2752
Simon