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Cargando... Lingo (2018)por Gaston Dorren
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Interesting book. If you like languages and/or linguistics, you will like this book. The book has 60 chapters and each one tells a story or anecdote about a different Indo-European language. There were several languages that I had never heard of before. My only wish would be that it included a few non-Indo-European languages such as Arabic, Coptic and Egyptian. Would have loved to see what he would have discovered about them. Highly recommend this book. ( ) A good book for any amateur language lover/linguist. The section on Esperanto was a little pessimistic and maybe not entirely correct, but hey I'm no Esperantist... Since I read the Norwegian translation it could just have been a weird translation that skewed some original sense of humour. Otherwise a good read indeed. A literal crash course on all languages you may find in Europe. Very, very easy to read and understand, except for a few chapters heavy in grammar, but otherwise a fast, enjoyable read. Would have appreciated more thorough information, but otherwise it’s a great first book if you’re looking into learning about the language diversity in the European continent. Excellent and fun look at European languages. We learnt all sorts of things about how different languages work that I wish I could now remember. I do now know why Scottish mountains are so difficult to pronounce and wonder if anyone can get it right. This is a well written (as you would expect) and engaging book covering all sorts of European languages.
Are some languages worse than others? The question might sound silly, but in this entertaining exercise in "language tourism" (the book's original Dutch title), the author isn't frightened of making judgments. He thinks lenition – the habit in Welsh of "changing a word's first letter for no apparent reason" – is just "mindboggling", and generally that "Gaelic spelling is flawed … wasteful, arcane and outdated". The "ludicrous" variety of cases in Slovak amounts to "chaos", while Breton's system of naming numbers makes mental arithmetic unnecessarily difficult. In the author's native Dutch, the gendering of nouns is changing in what he calls "a blatant act of linguistic sexism". (Everything that is not obviously a female living thing is a "he".) Nor will Anglophone readers of this edition feel smug after Dorren's excellent dissection of the illogicality of English, with its 20 different vowel sounds, impossible spelling and idiosyncratic formations. (Very reasonably, Dorren wonders: "Why does English say 'I want you to listen' rather than the more straightforward 'I want that you listen'?") Es una adaptación deLingo por Gaston Dorren Lingo por Gaston Dorren Tiene la adaptaciónLingo por Gaston Dorren Lingo por Gaston Dorren
Bienvenido a Europa como nunca la has visto: a través de las peculiaridades de sus idiomas y dialectos. Gaston Dorren mezcla la lingüística y la historia cultural y nos conduce a un fascinante tour por el continente, desde el protoindoeuropeo (el antepasado común de las lenguas europeas) hasta el triunfo del inglés, pasando por las complejidades de los plurales del galés y la pronunciación checa. Por el camino aprenderemos por qué el esperanto no prospera, qué les sorprende más a los extranjeros que intentan aprender español y por qué el finés es el idioma europeo más fácil de aprender. ¿Preparados? Sorprendente, ingeniosa y lleno de datos extraordinarios, "Lingo" cambiará nuestra forma de entender el lenguaje. "A través de estas sesenta historias sobre la lingüística europea aprendemos muchísimo sobre Europa [...] Una guía entretenida y accesible". -- The Financial Times "El recorrido de Dorren por el continente se convierte en una práctica enormemente divertida. Tiene algo interesante que decir sobre casi todo [...] brillante". -- The Guardian No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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