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Article #3293Re: education, not force
From: Jorma Kyppo
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00
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p105020@cc.tut.fi (Paakkunainen Timo) wrote: > HERE IS MY OPINION: > There should be one common official language in EU ( - and in > whole Europe and world). Now EU is in a ridiculous situation > with 11-13 official languages. --- cut -- and he also wrote: > I took a look at esperanto teaching pages in the NET and I was > surprised about the easiness of that language. I read it just in my > free time now and then, and I learned the esperanto grammar only > in THREE WEEKS! So: you can see how EASY it can be to study foreign languages. Multilingualism strengths the variety of cultures and ideas. Studying languages trains our brains and the languages, which have a different structure help us to understand world from different viewpoints and strenghtens abstract thinking. Monolinguistical world would be as big disaster for the world as the world where only living creature is man. One of the few *positive* sides of EU is just the multiculturalism and multilingualism. These are the *real* power of EU, that separates it from the other superpowers. 13 * 3 weeks is less than ten months.... Jorma Kyppo Laukaa Finland Jos osaat puhua suomea, du kan inte forsta engelska und verstehe Deutsch, ale to nie je taske studovat jazyky ja muidugi aru saada koikest, jos sa tahat. Wha daur meddle wi' me...?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11578d,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public From: Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi> Subject: Re: education, not force Date: 1996/12/13 Message-ID: <58rfq7$cqj@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> X-Deja-AN: 203897266 references: <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <823128131snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <31166CB2.167EB0E7@durham.ac.uk> <elnaDMu14K.EwG@netcom.com> <Dn0LCG.8LK.0.sheppard@torfree.net> <32AD3A68.3CAC@student.kulak.ac.be> <58pruc$st7@cc.tut.fi> organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union