"You should study this languge..."

"...first, before starting to study that one."

People who say that, DIAF.

nobody says that. what the fuck are you talking about?

>>2
"Study Esperanto before taking up <insert language here>", for example. Always makes me rage.

>>3
Well, Esperanto is really useful if you are learning an European language because it pretty much sums its vocabularies up. Of course it won't help in the case of weeaboo shit.

>>4
But if you wanted to learn a language like French, then wouldn't it be even more useful to study the target language from the very beginning instead of going through all that constructed language faggotry?

>>5
If you wanted to learn French the only logical step aside from learning French would be learning one of the romance languages aside from Portuguese and Romanian.
However, it is not what you originally wanted to do, therefore it at best becomes a chore and spoils your fun and minimises your chance of success.
The only good example for that way would be "Learn Dutch before taking up German" because its more like one of the German dialects (i.e. Bavarian, Saxon, Hessian) so you have less and easier grammar to pick up.

You know what you should do before studying x language? Nothing! Study the damn language.

>>5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto

See particularly the "Provincial Grammar School in Sheffield (GB)" section, which has quite clear results.

I don't know about adults, but It wouldn't surprise me if a few months of Esperanto achieved a similar result.

>>8
As far as I can see it merely helps the children to grasp the concept of grammar with a very easy language, it becomes useless, if you know how grammar works.

This isn't /prog/
It's not like "Learn Pascal before you learn C".

To learn a foreign language, the only advice you should hear is "Buy a book or go on a course and practise. Read websites in that language, listen to music, talk to people who speak it, hell even go to the country the language is spoken in. Don't waste time learning another language before trying the one you want, that's just dumb"

/thread

i was thinking about how fucking stupid this thread was earlier, there are languages that it would make no sense to study without first knowing another.
gaelic and, i presume, welsh without english, for example, would be a complete waste of time, and i suspect it is a similar situation for most minority languages where all speakers are bilingual.

>>10
wtf? you don't learn pascal before you learn c, that's like learning saxon before learning ottoman turkish

>>10
obviously you know nothing about both foreign languages, and you also know nothing about programming.

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>>14
Troll. 0/10

>>15
so obvious it doesn't need to be said.
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