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In article <1992Jul20.170623.13769@bnr.ca>,
Reg Foulkes writes:
>In article <wz1mbvgm@cck.coventry.ac.uk>,
esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will >Overington) writes:
>
>>I put forward the motion that we should seek to create a course
>>on learning Russian, for beginners, with the instruction being
>>in English.
>>The course will use Esperanto, with its regularity and logical
>>structure as an aid by comparing and contrasting it with Russian, which
>>like many (all?) natural languages has irregularities.
>
> Why do we need a third language to learn a second? If instructions 
>are in English why not the examples...
>

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.

It occured to me that expressing the grammar in Esperanto, with its
logical structure might well be beneficial.
For example, correlatives (such as who, what, how &c, - note
how many start with wh- in English, except how, whereas in Esperanto
they all start with k-). Other correlatives such as everyone all form
a logical table of beginings and endings. I thought that it might ease
the learning of Russian to use a triple language table for correlatives,
if indeed Russian has them, (or must a language have them in order to
be able to work?) would be helpful in understanding the structure and
showing any useful regular patterns or almost regular patterns that exist.

I am interested in languages, but am not very good at them, but I
do try.

Maybe this is a good idea that will catch on, or maybe a professional
linguist will find it pointless.