Category Archives: Aragonese
How To Divide Languages from Dialects – Structure or Intelligibility?
There are many ways of dividing languages from dialects. The three general methods are: 1. Historical 2. Structural 3. Intelligibility The traditional method has tended to utilize structural and sometimes historical, but intelligibility is also often used. For an example … Continue reading
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Does Language Learning Carry Over to New Languages?
Not nearly as much as one might think. For instance, I am relatively well versed in the Romance languages. I can read Spanish quite well, but not fluently. I can read a bit of French. And I have studied reading … Continue reading
