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Re: education, not force

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From: Jorma Kyppo
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.
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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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From: Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi>
Subject: Re: education, not force
Date: 1996/12/13
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