harrisro303 | Re: French + LFN
Hey Dave thanks for the respose i wanted to let you know i was the
one who u spoke to last year about LsF on your old blog. I just
happend to stumble on your new blog about a week ago i believe. Just
a bit of info, i am interested in some conlangs but I do plan on
going to France but not to soon maybe in 6months or less but anways.
I have no blogs and no myspace and so on and so forth. I would like
to learn a language that will help me with gaining as much french as
possible with out diving into it yet. Strange i know but anyways.
that is the short side.
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "dave5dave5dave"
<mithridates@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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.
>