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A repost from alt.education.distance:

From: duncan@spd.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk (Duncan C Thomson)
Subject: Re: MOTION Course on Russian, in English, with Esperanto mentions.
Message-ID: <1992Jul22.095042.16172@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:50:42 GMT
References: <1992Jul20.170623.13769@bnr.ca> <4g3mbqyv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Jul21.170726.11584@bnr.ca>
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In alt.education.distance, Reg Foulkes writes:
>In article <4g3mbqyv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will
>Overington) writes:
>
>>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.

Actually, there was some study which suggested that people spending four
years at school learning some foreign language (I forget which language)
learnt more of the language if the first year was spend learning only
Esperanto.  I don't have the reference, but someone in soc.culture.esperanto
might be able to tell you...

> I would rather spend my time learn living &breathing languages.

I will not flame.  I will not flame.  I *will* *not* flame... :-)

Amike,

	-Duncan
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