From: byrial@daimi.aau.dk (Byrial Jensen)
Subject: Re: VORTO: mang^i to eat
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Distribution: inet
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 18:42:31 GMT

esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will Overington) skribas:

>Maybe they are dull, but, as a fact, if I get a few VORTO: items
>in soc.culture.esperanto every day, I am likely to spend the time
>necessary to understand them and actually learn them, whereas if I
>get a page of stuff that means sitting down with a dictionary for
>an hour or two, then I am very unlikely to spend the time doing it at
>work and then not get round to it on a regular basis in evenings
>and weekends. A few VORTO: items can be printed and taken down to
>the common room for a gentle read at tea break time. A daily treat
>to look forward to, and not fattening like a daily cake! :-)
>Also, at the weekends I might well make the effort to seek out one
>or two interesting words as my contributions as VORTO: items during
>the next week.
>Will anyone agree with me on this?

Se vi vere deziras lerni esperanton, vi prenu cxirkau la
urtikon, t.e. ne evitu uzi la vortaron. Estas malfacile lerni
iun ajn lingvon - ja, esperanto estas facilega kompare kun
aliaj lingvoj, sed tamen ne tre facile lernebla. Do, mi opinias
ke ne eblas lerni gxin sole per dolcxa legado kiam vi tepauzas.
Necesas legi kaj skribi tekstojn, kuij havas verajn sencojn.

Hvis du virkelig oensker at laere esperanto, bliver du noedt
til at gribe om naelden, dvs. du undgaar ikke at bruge
ordbogen. Det er svaert at laere et hvilket som helst sprog -
jo, esperanto er meget let sammenlignet med andre sprog, men
alligevel er det ikke meget nemt at laere. Jeg tror saaledes
ikke at det er muligt at laere det alene ved hyggelig laesning
mens du holder tepause. Det er noedvendigt at laese og skrive
tekster som ikke er indholdsloese.

If you really want to learn esperanto, you must grasp the
nettle, i.e. don't avoid to use the dictionary. It's hard to
learn every language - yes, esperanto is very easy compared to
other languages, but nevertheless not very easy to learn. So, I
think that it's not possible to learn esperanto only by gently
reading when you have tea break. It's necessary to read and
write texts with meaning.

>Oh dear!
>I did not claim that English should be a prerequisite for learning
>Esperanto on the net, it just happens to be my native language and the
>language that most, indeed all that I had seen up to now, non-Esperanto
>postings in soc.culture.esperanto happen to be in.

Eble estas tiel cxar ni kuij ne havas la anglan kiel nian
gepatran lingvon scias ke ne cxiuj komprenus, se ni uzus la
gepatran lingvon. Ekzemple mi nur skribas ankau angle, cxar mi
supozas, ke vi ne scias danan.

Det er sikkert saadan fordi vi som ikke har engelsk som
modersmaal ved at ikke alle ville forstaa det, hvis vi brugte
modersmaalet. For eksempel skriver jeg kun dette paa engelsk
ogsaa, fordi jeg formoder at du ikke kan dansk.

It's may be so because we who not have english as our native
language know that not all would understand if we used the
native language. For example I write in english too only
because I suppose that you do not master danish.

Byrial JENSEN (el Aarhus, Danio)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.esperanto