LL-L "Language learning" 2010.07.27 (01) [EN]

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From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>

Subject: LL-L "Language learning" 2010.07.26 (07) [EN]



> From: Brooks, Mark <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
> Subject: LL-L "Language learning" 2010.07.26 (04) [EN]
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> Bill asked: “Is it a horrible idea to try to learn Old English and Old
Norse more or less concurrently?”

Það var ein þau skiptaði tungu á Englalondi..


Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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From: Mike Morgan <mwmbombay at gmail.com>

Subject: LL-L "Language learning" 2010.07.26 (04) [EN]



Bill Paterson asked:

> Is it a horrible idea to try to learn Old English and Old Norse more or
less concurrently?

Horrible? Hardly. In fact since you note that
>  I will not need to speak them
it is possibly a GREAT way to study them, i.e. comparatively.

I have always found it "best" (when possible) to study things comparatively
(or in some other contextual way) so that the "facts" fall naturely into
their place in the greater scheme of things. And EVEN when there is no
obvious and close relation as there clearly is between OE and ON, even then
I find it works well (for me anyway) to "kills 2 birds with 1 stone". And
so, one favorite way for me is to study 3rd languages through a 2nd... Like
Catalan through Spanish or Ukrainian through Russian (as in my undergrad
days) or Turkish and Norwegian through Dutch... In several cases the 3rd
languages are now better than the 2nd ones... but generally ALL have
benefited.

Now, if Ron had only written his Uyghur textbook in his mother tongue
instead of English.... ;-)

         U C > || Mike Morgan
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                 linguist

    soon to be @ IGNOU-UCLan

Applied Sign Linguistics Programme

            New Delhi, India



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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>

Subject: Language learning

This is the answer I gave Bill privately before he posted his question here:



Personally I believe that much depends on the person. Some people have an
easier time keeping languages apart than do others. Some of it is personal
and some of it has to do with their theoretical linguistic awareness.

Important, also, is the language learner's stage you have reached. It sounds
to me as though your footing in OE is fairly firm now. In that case the
addition of ON may be at least not detrimental, may indeed be beneficial.

I suggest you begin getting a foot in the door of ON and checking a few
weeks later what that does to your OE effort.



Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA



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