harrisro303 | Re: LinguaFrancaNova
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "simon.franova"
<simon.franova@...> wrote:
Thank you very much for the quick reply. Have a Merry Christmas and a
happy New Year. TOO ALL
>
> > 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
>