dave5dave5dave | Re: French + LFN
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "harrisro303"
<harrisro303@...> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Hi, I like questions like these so I wrote a fairly long response here
including a small comparison of the two languages:
http://mithridates.blogspot.com/2008/12/does-knowing-lingua-franca-
nova-help.html
The short answer is that yes, I would recommend it for someone who
isn't planning to go to France in the near future, but not simply
through learning the basics. The basics in LFN are pretty easy to
grasp, and after that it will still take a certain amount of time for
all the vocabulary to gel in your head, after which it will begin to
prove useful for understanding other Romance languages. So if you like
to write tons and tons of wiki content like we do (most natural
languages don't really welcome their Wikipedias used as a testbed like
that), then it would be a good idea.