Lusty's Lloyd Loom. With Englis, German and French Language Tetxt. a History of 1930s Design & collectors' Price Guise There is so much great information in here that it requires repeat readings over several years, especially Part II. Consider this book a meta-manual for learning how to learn languages.

BLEND Helps Payoneer Reduce KYC Verification Times with Localization Services in 50 Languages Matt StrachThe book explains why these shifts happen, why French and English have hundreds of common words like this, and how to learn them without any mental strain. There is so much great information in here that it requires repeat readings over several years, especially Part II. (I'm on my first pass.) Consider this book a meta-manual for learning how to learn languages. This book is a combination of a reference book, with parts meant to be consulted as needed, and some chapters meant to be read from beginning to end. The sections of interest to me right now were written for a very specific audience: native English speakers intent on learning Romance and Teutonic languages. There are sections devoted to learning other Romance languages once you know your first one, I hope to make use of this someday! That narrow focus allows a degree of specific insight missing from similar books. He has a very interesting way of presenting things, and drawing conclusions, and associating thing. Well... to me, at least.

The grammar differences explained in detail are super useful to get a grasp of multiple languages. Understanding the core concepts allows you to broaden your view and get an understanding in a better way. Despite learning a language being much more than mastering the grammar, understanding better the grammar also helps, and tracing similarities makes it easier. This book is a product of its time. The author was multilingual but not a linguist. The book was written right after WWII. The author's purpose was to aid people to be able to communicate with each other so that understanding between people would contribute to the prevention of future wars. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of the infringing activity and that is to be removed It is divided into four parts. Part I is a "natural history" of language. Part II covers the "hybrid heritage" of English as a language which straddles the Germanic and Romance branches of the Indo-European language tree. Part III covers language problems and planning movements. Part IV is a "language museum" of comparative vocabulary tables.YtownPolyglot Orange Belt Posts: 227 Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2016 9:42 pm Location: Ohio, USA Languages: English (N), French (C1), Spanish (B2), German (B2), Italian (B1)

It is divided into four parts. Part I is a “natural history” of language. Part II covers the “hybrid heritage” of English as a language which straddles the Germanic and Romance branches of the Indo-European language tree. Part III covers language problems and planning movements. Part IV is a “language museum” of comparative vocabulary tables. limey75 Yellow Belt Posts: 76 Joined: Wed May 25, 2016 11:30 am Location: UK Languages: English (N); intermediate: German, Norwegian, Old English.Learn to read languages with interlinear bilingual books that include the original language and an English translation below in a smaller font. What I also love about Bodmer’s work is the sense of joy he tries to convey, the idea that languages are a wonderful puzzle worth solving. When I first read the book many years ago I was inspired by it, driven to master languages the way Bodmer suggested, and I still use many of the ideas in the book as a guide towards my own continuing education in languages and cultures of the world. It’s exhilarating to read, even today, seven decades later, the thoughts of a brilliant mind on the necessity and joy of learning language, and how this goal can best be achieved. Montmorency Brown Belt Posts: 1035 Joined: Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:01 pm Location: Oxfordshire, UK Languages: English (Native)

At one point, the author mentions that his only suggestion for learning Russian is to have been born in Russia and have grown up there. I laughed out loud when I read that. The book seems outdated in some parts. As languages are living organisms you will find some words here and there in German, English, Portuguese, etc, which are different nowadays, but by no means turns it into a bad reading experience, on the contrary, we see how the languages are still evolving. Just be aware. AlexTG Green Belt Posts: 299 Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:14 pm Location: Tasmania, Australia Languages: Easy to Read: English(N), French, Spanish The spoken language of a speech community is continually changing. Where uniformity exists, local dialects crop up.If you dream of learning more than one language from the following list, read/skim this book and use the tips. It will save you time and effort overall. The list: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, plus the languages in the above quote. The ideas will also work for languages like Catalan and Romanian, but you will have to find the relative shifts somewhere else, which won't be hard to do once you understand how they usually work. Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. Sidenote: In linguistic circles people love to dig into exceptions and point out when rules break down, which can make learners abandon something incredibly useful for fear of making mistakes. But you should not be discouraged by ivory-tower elitism. You are going to make mistakes and fall into traps no matter what, so don’t get discouraged by exceptions. The Loom was an interesting high-level academic read of the history of many languages. Its primary focus is on Western European languages. It uses written Chinese as a language to use as a grammar syntax benchmark, and takes a shallow look into other languages like Persian, Bantu, Arabic, and others — including some Slavic.