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Author: C3C3 Date: Aug 9, 2008 02:43
I know Spanish fluently and quite a bit of Latin, especially
ecclesiastical. Today I was surprised when I picked up an Italian
magazine and most of the language came to me naturally. To those who
don't know, Italian and Spanish are Romance languages (latin deriv.
romanica) meaning they evolved from the Latin language. Italian is the
romance language which is most closely related to Latin. The other
romance languages are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and the
Catalan languages. Can the brain make the necessary leaps to "connect
the dots" and form the linguistic miracle of understanding derived
languages? How do you think this works?
C3
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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Aug 9, 2008 03:14
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 02:43:47 -0700 (PDT), C3 aol.com> wrote:
>I know Spanish fluently and quite a bit of Latin, especially
>ecclesiastical. Today I was surprised when I picked up an Italian
>magazine and most of the language came to me naturally. To those who
>don't know, Italian and Spanish are Romance languages (latin deriv.
>romanica) meaning they evolved from the Latin language. Italian is the
>romance language which is most closely related to Latin. The other
>romance languages are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and the
>Catalan languages. Can the brain make the necessary leaps to "connect
>the dots" and form the linguistic miracle of understanding derived
>languages? How do you think this works?
>
>C3
> www.knightlanguages.com
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Aug 9, 2008 04:33
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:43:47 -0700, C3 wrote:
> Can the brain make the necessary leaps to "connect the dots" and form
> the linguistic miracle of understanding derived languages? How do you
> think this works?
Not sure what you mean by 'miracle' nor leap. Derived languages, as you
call them, share common roots.
The basic idea is that many modern languages came from or were derived
form a earlier language. Sanskrit > Greek > Latin > Spanish/Italian for
instance is thought to be a common progression.
So by learning Latin and Greek one also becomes familiar with all the
languages derived from those. Not so much a mystery as it is just plain
interesting.
Maybe more a = <> b = <> c?
SEE: Rosetta Stone
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Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: Aug 9, 2008 17:01
On Aug 9, 7:43 pm, C3 aol.com> wrote:> I know Spanish fluently and quite a bit of Latin, especially
> ecclesiastical. Today I was surprised when I picked up an Italian
> magazine and most of the language came to me naturally. To those who
> don't know, Italian and Spanish are Romance languages (latin deriv.
> romanica) meaning they evolved from the Latin language. Italian is the
> romance language which is most closely related to Latin. The other
> romance languages are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and the
> Catalan languages. Can the brain make the necessary leaps to "connect
> the dots" and form the linguistic miracle of understanding derived
> languages? How do you think this works?
>
> C3www.knightlanguages.com
Ask James Earl Jones to speak mandarin, like a chinese person.
There you will find a bbig clue.
BOfL
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Author: C3C3 Date: Aug 9, 2008 17:20
On Aug 9, 4:33�am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:> On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:43:47 -0700, C3 wrote:
>> Can the brain make the necessary leaps to "connect the dots" and form
>> the linguistic miracle of understanding derived languages? �How do you
>> think this works?
>
> Not sure what you mean by 'miracle' nor leap. Derived languages, as you
> call them, share common roots.
>
> The basic idea is that many modern languages came from or were derived
> form a earlier language. Sanskrit > Greek > Latin > Spanish/Italian for
> instance is thought to be a common progression.
>
> So by learning Latin and Greek one also becomes familiar with all the
> languages derived from those. Not so much a mystery as it is just plain
> interesting.
>
> Maybe more a = <> b = <> c?
>
> SEE: Rosetta Stone ...
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