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A repost from alt.education.distance:

From: Reg Foulkes
Subject: Re: MOTION Course on Russian, in English, with Esperanto mentions.
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.170726.11584@bnr.ca>
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References: <wz1mbvgm@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Jul20.170623.13769@bnr.ca> <4g3mbqyv@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:07:26 GMT

In article <4g3mbqyv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will
Overington) writes:

>I found that while learning French, years ago, that a lot of my
>problems were that I did not understand the grammar principles
>when they were clouded by the irregularities in the language.
>
  This is the reason it takes so much time to learn laguages well.

>It occured to me that expressing the grammar in Esperanto, with its
>logical structure might well be beneficial.

  And it might not. Having to learn Esperanto to learn Russian seems
like the long way around the bush. I do not know Esperanto and since I 
have only a limited 
time on Earth I would rather spend my time learn living &breathing 
languages. But that is only my preference. Let the classes begin.  



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