Essa consciência é obtida através do estudo da evolução das línguas e da análise das peculiaridades do nosso próprio idioma. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Well suited for older people and laymen who are interested in languages and linguistics, but certainly not very technical or scientific. The first two-thirds of the book was an incredibly in-depth analysis of the syntax of Romance and Germanic languages, especially as they apply to English.

The Loom of Language helps learners avoid wasted time by explaining how things normally go for the various languages. This book is simply awesome in documenting the history and evolution of Teutonic and Latin languages and tracing parallels of language evolution.Hogben's academic career included stints at universities in England, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, and Guyana. For example, in "I eat" "He eats", the "-s" is an unnecessary flexion in the author's eyes (I don't disagree with that). Anyways it's not the kind of book I can't read cover to cover but even a partial reading gives you a much better and more holistic sense of how language works. The only annoyance is that the huge tables in Part IV aren't available online somewhere as spreadsheets (the book was written in the '40s) so one could import them into a spaced repetition system like Anki for efficient learning.

The English language is a mongrel, consisting of 29% Norman French vocab grafted onto German grammar, with an incredible 9% of our vocab coming from Greek as well. A terceira parte comenta os projetos de línguas artificiais e a última traz lista de palavras para estudo. He is best remembered for his many books for adults and children that attempted to make math and science available to popular audiences.

Given all the above, I will reiterate that I don't recommend this book at all for any language learners. This book - not overly dated despite its appearance in 1943 - is refreshingly un-tiresome, as opposed to the myriad of general-readership books on linguistics that strain the readers' patience with pseudo-scientific wordiness.

If you want a book that goes into depth of how Teutonic (Germanic) and Romance languages are similar and different to English, this may be the book for you. You will not approach the mastery of any languages with this book, nor have the tools to create a plan to, either. A synthetic international language must wait for adoption upon political and educational conditions which are not yet in sight.There is so much great information in here that it requires repeat readings over several years, especially Part II. so im adding this idc🥴) ive read MOST pages tho and the sections I was really interested in (ie its part 2 and the part 4 when needed) besides some ppl even treat this book like dictionary and not to be read from page to page. Part II covers the "hybrid heritage" of English as a language which straddles the Germanic and Romance branches of the Indo-European language tree. I recommend it heartily, but with the caveat that one might get more out of it with some time spent with more recent linguistics before diving in. Edited by Lancelot Hogben, this book, concentrating on the European languages, demonstrates their commonalities, the regularities of changes as radicals move from language to language.

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.Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know. contra Benny the Polyglot, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World who counsels speaking on Day 1, and Kaufmann, The Way of the Linguist: A Language Learning Odyssey who would have me reading text with native speaker audio on Day 1). O livro foi publicado no Brasil, nos anos 60, com o título de O homem e as línguas: guia para o estudioso de idiomas, traduzido e adaptado pelo filólogo brasileiro Aires da Mata Machado Filho, em conjunto com Paulo Rónai e Marcello Marques Magalhães. His argument is that if a person learned the Latin and Greek vocabulary lists and all of the 500 word vocabulary lists of all of the languages he provides that a person could understand and make himself understood anywhere in Europe.