Re:Language Learning Difficulty for English Speakers
by klipt on Friday November 27, 2009 @06:22PM
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I only mention the Esperanto studies because (1) they seem to confirm RiderOfGiraffes' intuition (2) AFAIK Esperanto is the only auxlang for which such studies have been done.
I suspect similar effects could be found with lojban, and would love to see more research in that area. However AFAIK no such research currently exists.
I read the ranto ages ago and while it makes many good points, none of them are particularly relevant to the suggestion that the studies were faked. In fact imperfections like sexism could be advantageous if the student then proceeds to a similarly sexist European language (i.e. most of them).
I suspect similar effects could be found with lojban, and would love to see more research in that area. However AFAIK no such research currently exists.
I read the ranto ages ago and while it makes many good points, none of them are particularly relevant to the suggestion that the studies were faked. In fact imperfections like sexism could be advantageous if the student then proceeds to a similarly sexist European language (i.e. most of them).