Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site jenny.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!kcl-cs!jenny!jbdp From: jbdp@jenny.UUCP (Julian Pardoe) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Learn Esperanto or bust Message-ID: <297@jenny.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 07:37:16 EST Article-I.D.: jenny.297 Posted: Thu Dec 19 07:37:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Dec-85 01:24:32 EST Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 23 Xpath: kcl-cs neon In article h-sc1.842 (Re: Learn Janpanese or bust) Thomas Breuel writes: > For any foreign language, 2 1/2 years of intensive study is a pretty > short time if your goal is to become fluent, to speak without a major > accent, and to be able to read every-day publications without a > dictionary. To be able to write in a foreign language takes even > longer. Ah, but if you were to learn Esperanto you should be pretty disappointed if after 2 1/2 years of *very casual* study of you couldn't speak with a fair degree of fluency, write with ease and understand the spoken and the written language with no trouble at all. In fact, you should be able to get by after a couple of months study (if not less). Julian Pardoe ------------- University of Cambridge Tel: +44 223 352435 ext. 265 Computer Laboratory Arpa: <@ucl-cs: jbdp@cl.cam.ac.uk> Corn Exchange Street Janet: jbdp@UK.AC.Cam.CL CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3QG UUCP: mcvax!ukc!cl-jenny!jbdp Great Britain