首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Esperanto Esperanto was invented a【1】philologist, Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. Esperanto means "【2】". The vocabulary comes m
Esperanto Esperanto was invented a【1】philologist, Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. Esperanto means "【2】". The vocabulary comes m
admin
2010-07-19
64
问题
Esperanto
Esperanto was invented a【1】philologist, Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. Esperanto means "【2】". The vocabulary comes mainly from Western European languages, and the grammar is similar to Slavic languages. It sounds like【3】. It is spoken all over the world by approximately【4】people. As to the learners, it has the advantage that there are no【5】to rules. The main advantage, is that Esperanto is a【6】language. It doesn’t have the national, political and cultural【7】that all others of course have.
Why not English as the world language? English is easy in the beginning, but then the bridge between basic knowledge and【8】takes a long time to cross, and many people give up. On the contrary, Esperanto is a very easy language to learn. There are five【9】sounds in Esperanto. The most remarkable thing is that after a very short time learners find that they can express quite【10】deas just as in their own language.
【9】
Presenter: Good morning everybody and welcome to our lecture. It’s a good pleasure for me to welcome Professor Nesbit of the University of Edinburgh, He is going to give us a lecture about a world language. Professor Nesbit, Please.
Professor: Today I’m going to talk about languages, or more specially about a world language. What would the world be like if everyone spoke the same language? Would we understand each other better and be more sympathetic to each other’s causes? I’m not talking about everyone sharing the same first language, but sharing the same second language, and I’m not talking about English, but Esperanto. That’s spelled E-S-P-E-R-A-N-T-O. This is an artificial language.
What are the facts about Esperanto? Well, it was invented in 1887 by Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish philologist. The vocabulary comes mainly from Western European languages, and the grammar is similar m Slavic languages. It sounds like Italian. Esperanto means "hopeful", and it was Zamenhof’s hope that a common language would promote a friendship and an understanding amongst all people of the world. His inspiration is summed up by the Esperanto term interna idea which means central idea, and it is an idea of human peace and justice. I think Esperanto will become the world language in the future.
Esperanto is taught in many schools in Yugoslavia and Hungary. China is very interested. About 400,000 people have learned Esperanto in China. It is spoken all over the world by approximately ten million people, and there are many who would like Esperanto to be the official second language of the world. It has such internal logic that it could become the international computer language.
From the learner’s point of view, it has the advantage that there are no exceptions to rules. The advantages of the world being able to talk freely to each other about business, politics, culture, sport, hobbies... well... are obvious. The costs of translation at any international conference are staggering. About 55 percent of the EEC’s budget in Strasbourg is taken up by translation costs. The main advantage, as I see, is that Esperanto is a neutral language. It doesn’t have the national, political and cultural bias that all others of course have, If everybody has to learn a second language, then everybody is equal. Well. I’ll stop here for questions.
Student: Excuse me. I’d like to ask a question. Why should people have to learn another language? Why not English as the world language? I mean there are already so many people who speak English throughout the world.
Professor: I think English is one of those languages which for many seems easy in the beginning, but then the bridge between basic knowledge and mastery takes a long time to cross, and many people give up. Why should people have to learn English? For many it’s a waste of time of spelling, of the large number of exceptions to any rule, it is very idiomatic and the prepositions are terrible. On the contrary, Esperanto is a very easy language to learn. The tense system has none of the complications of English, and the grammar is based on just sixteen rules which have no exceptions. There are five vowel sounds in Esperanto, but twenty vowel sounds in English. The most remarkable thing is that after a very short time learners find that they can express quite sophisticated ideas, the same sort of things that they would want to say in their own language.
Presenter: Professor Nesbit, thank you very much.
选项
答案
vowel
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/eulO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
ItcanbeinferredfromthepassagethatMrs.SappletonwasallEXCEPTWhichadjectivecanbestdescribeFramton’sfeelingwhen
Howdothescientistsmeasurethepitch?
Howdothescientistsmeasurethepitch?
Cultureshockisapainfulexperiencewegothroughwhenweencountermanynewthingsinanothercountryandwe【1】______insom
NewEnglandisinthe_____oftheUnitedStates.
1 Itakeitthatthepurposeofanylanguagecourseistodevelopinlearnerstheabilitytoengageincommunicativebehaviour
1 "Internationalcommunication"iscommunicationbetweenmembersofdifferentcultures.Thisdefinitionissimple.Butt
1 Duringtheadolescence,thedevelopmentofpoliticalideologybecomesapparentintheindividual;ideologyhereisdefinedas
1 Duringtheadolescence,thedevelopmentofpoliticalideologybecomesapparentintheindividual;ideologyhereisdefinedas
社区教育是外来名词,由联合国教科文组织对社区教育的界定引入到对我国社区教育的定义。随着我国经济的发展,城市化进程的加快,大批城乡居民搬迁新居,从而产生了一个个居民小区,社区由此形成。而社区教育适应了社区居民精神生活和终身学习的需要,满足了居民的受教育的权利
随机试题
《反垄断法》规定的垄断协议适用除外的情形包括()。
急性糜烂性胃炎的发病原因主要是
目前单独化疗能治愈的肿瘤是
患者,男,28岁。1月前曾患急性咽喉炎,半个月前出现眼睑浮肿,继则四肢、全身亦肿,皮肤光泽,按之凹陷易恢复,伴发热,咽痛,咳嗽,小便不利等症,舌苔薄白,脉浮。尿常规:尿蛋白(+++)。24小时尿蛋白定量3.8g/24h。肝肾功能:血清白蛋白27g/L。
在任何时间内,市场上的利率不止一种,利率体系是指各类利率之间和各类利率内部存在的相互影响和制约的关系而构成有机整体。我国当前的利率体系可分为( )。
现代市场体系是()。
在全国人大常委会举行会议期间,下列机关中可以提出议案的是()。
设随机变量X服从参数为2的指数分布,证明:Y=1一e-2X在区间(0,1)上服从均匀分布.
A、StudentswithhigherSATverbalscoreswhousethegrammarandspellingsoftware.B、StudentswithlowerSATverbalscoreswho
Britishdoctorsaretolaunchamajorclinicaltrialtoinvestigatewhetheracommonanti-depressiondrugcouldbeacheapande
最新回复
(
0
)