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I recommend it heartily, but with the caveat that one might get more out of it with some time spent with more recent linguistics before diving in. This book - not overly dated despite its appearance in 1943 - is refreshingly un-tiresome, as opposed to the myriad of general-readership books on linguistics that strain the readers' patience with pseudo-scientific wordiness. I love the word dictionary at the back, and i would love to have the same but for phrases for select languages. The language-learning strategies are invaluable, and Hogben has a gift for making the history of languages not just tolerably interesting, but page-turning.
O livro foi publicado no Brasil, nos anos 60, com o título de O homem e as línguas: guia para o estudioso de idiomas, traduzido e adaptado pelo filólogo brasileiro Aires da Mata Machado Filho, em conjunto com Paulo Rónai e Marcello Marques Magalhães. Other similar books teach you to learn any language, including those outside the Indo-European language family that share literally nothing with your native tongue, English. If you're interested in a broad overview of languages, not just in studying one of them, then you're going to come across this treasure trove of a book at some stage in your travels. Lecionou na Universidade da Cidade do Cabo, na África do Sul e no Departamento de Línguas Modernas do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts (MIT).The most fascinating feature of this book is how it frames being a native English speaker as a positive, not a negative. As such, the book covers Swedish, Danish, Dutch, and German in the Teutonic track and French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian in the Romance track, not to mention plenty of discussion of parent languages like Latin and Old English.
It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages Teutonic, Romance, Greek helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. As languages are living organisms you will find some words here and there in German, English, Portuguese, etc, which are different nowadays, but by no means turns it into a bad reading experience, on the contrary, we see how the languages are still evolving. One of Hogben's most ambitious projects emerged rather accidentally; in 1940, he and his daughter were trapped in Oslo, Norway, by the German invasion. I’m looking forward to someday using the section about working within the Romance and Teutonic languages.It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. The Loom of Language helps learners avoid wasted time by explaining how things normally go for the various languages.
The last part about language planning might be boring if you're not a linguist or don't share a curiosity for the subject.This book is a combination of a reference book, with parts meant to be consulted as needed, and some chapters meant to be read from beginning to end. If you dream of learning more than one language from the following list, read/skim this book and use the tips. Hogben was educated at Cambridge as a biologist, but never limited himself to a single field of inquiry. Unique Leather Bound Edition having Spine and corners bind with leather with Golden Leaf Printing on round spine.
The Old English word wæter had a hard T consonant that survived to English, but evolved to “ss” and softened in German.Almost all of the practical language-learning material is still fresh, but the terminology used is a bit dated and a lot of the scholarship lacks details and revisions made more recently. I believe that the appendices (dubbed The Language Museum), in which the author gives 500 basic vocabularies for the Teutonic and Romance languages, along with the common Greek roots for the technical terminology, would alone be a worthy collection. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
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