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AskWoody PlusI learned this some years ago when we had a food pantry event at church. Some of the people coming for groceries didn’t speak English, and I only speak English and Geek 😆, so when I ran into a communications impasse I whipped out my smartphone and brought up either Google Translate or Microsoft Translator (I forget which). Saved the day without having to ask our already overworked human translator for help! So I know just how you felt.
BTW, I wish I had it available during a trip to Europe (Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic) quite a while ago, but neither existed at the time. German wasn’t so difficult, as I had a smattering of that language, but Czech is nearly impossible!
//Steve//
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AskWoody PlusIt would be great if we had one world language!
Whatever happened to the Esperanto movement?
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Forgot to click the notify button. Don’t understand why this can’t be turned on as the default!Esperanto is alive, but I think it’s on life support. In any case, it never became more than an academic exercise. Some app installers — meaning the apps that are used by developers to create install programs for their apps, if that wasn’t jumbled too badly 😁 — still provide for Esperanto as an install language option, but they’re pretty few and far between.
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AskWoody PlusI dredged up this video to listen to the language. It doesn’t sound that bad, seems to have flow.
I am very poor at languages, so would likely have great difficulty learning something new.
Esperanto: Like a Native
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzDS2WyemBI
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AskWoody Plus30 percent of English words are of French origin — and that’s before you even get to “franglais” (le week-end, le computer, …).
If your English vocabulary is decent, if you’ve had any exposure to Latin, you can halfway read basic French.
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AskWoody Plus30 percent of English words are of French origin — and that’s before you even get to “franglais” (le week-end, le computer, …).
If your English vocabulary is decent, if you’ve had any exposure to Latin, you can halfway read basic French.
80% of the English language is derived from Latin. The other 20%, not counting slang, technical terms, etc. is derived from Germanic languages, but this is the part of English that we use the most. That’s the way my Latin teacher laid it out for me, anyway, and my experience so far has held that up to be true.
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