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Jorma Kyppo (jorma@jytko.jyu.fi) wrote:
: 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


I ALSO wrote:

...After studing english years after years at school it is still
difficult to understand what people are really saying...

You really knew what I meant about it:

        Only constructed-language is that fast to be learned,
        and every natural-european-language takes many years
        each to be learned (unless you live in that some foreign
        country and learn the language there, but it�s impossible
        and wrong way to solve the problem - "every european
        should live atleast one year in England or USA 
        to learn english").

It�s not:  13 * 3 weeks = 10 months
but it is: 13 * years after years = a couple of human lives


Multilingualism in EU is richness, but not any strength.
It is a real restrain, a bottleneck.

If there is some universal language like esperanto, other
single national languages will not disappear any where. 
In every single country people are speaking their own 
languages as before, but in international communications are
esperanto used.

We need one fast, simple, effective common language which 
can be used EVERY WHERE in EU. 

Without one language EU is not any real union.
In that case EU may make laws in economic, trading life,
it can make directivs like "the curves of cucumbers",
tradesmen and politics can use their interpreters, 
BUT single citizens are separated from each others,
behind "the walls of languages".

E.g. in the Internet newsgroups if I would like to discuss
with the europeans, what happens: I am talking with
north americans and australians, and the europeans are
somewhere else with their own languages.(I mean in some 
other newsgroups than for example this EU newsgroup,
if I am using english).
Is that any UNION?

I and people like me are not using languages for fun, 
as a nice hobby, or for some happiness of cultural
richness. We just try to communicate with foreign 
people. And we are not styding languages for fun.
We are styding languages from necessity. We simply 
have no time to waste (our main work, for example
working in some natural sciencies, takes enough time
from our lives already.)

People who are interested in languages, who are studing
those in universities, or just for cultural richness,
THEY can spent whole days with languages and 
languages and languages. But that must not be the 
main principle of EU.

Timo Paakkunainen