LEARN MORE LANGUAGES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 38, 8 November 1919, Page 7

LEARN MORE LANGUAGES

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(By "n.S'.J.-" in" the "Daily Afail.")

The wise young men who are .learning now not one but several foreign languages are the m»n who will skim some of the cream of prosperity when our export trade gets into its stride ngn'n. "Not one lint several." I emnhasi-> the phrase. Bi-tingual men are common enmigh already. .

It is hardly possible for the average man In know move than three tnmrmros thoroughly, but one" fhc-e have b»»n m!>stnro<l )f ;« )10 f diftVuH, by .mniying snecial metl'ods. vo lo:>"n to ren.'l, if lotto sp'"ak. a great num'-wr ( ,f "tWs. And a young men w ; tli that knowledge and a taste for a bigness career has something vnl'iable to. sell.

The nrincipal Kurooean languages are dividedjjinto ?ronn=: (l>o ftwiianie with Emrlvsir. Hiilch. 'S'-ndish. Pnnish, and Gormen ; dp Pnm- , '" > e. including Vronoh, Swinish. Italian. Pnrtug»ps»: and Slav, with ]?n«inn, Serbian. linl«arian, and Polish, Cz°ch. and Puthenian.

The various languages of each groun are closely related to one another, and the grnuns are also connected. All t>« languages in nap grnnn con he loarwd by starting w'lh one lan'im'-o in that group and sinnlvinir rul»= whi"h show, almost invariablv wlv. f form, fo" instance, n "iven word in Prc'-h will take in Italian and how the Portuguese word will a'mist to a certainty appear in its T'""oeh dress.

This riop* not merely include such obvious idonHti"s es the Tvni'lisli and Tli'Mi for "mother." the T'i'pjip'i und Italian for "nonnle." On Hie other h:'"(l. the ftiKlenf Is not bound to be inlprHed nf: once in discussions linr fin common oWsin "f lh n English niirl wort's for n "teal'.'"

The host wnv of Wiiiiiincr is to r«lce a sliort coni-s" nf i-pndiiicf i" Hip history of one's mo'h"r torn"'". 'I'd is shows Hie comieclioii between the Emdisb and he sister ami i"'Oi)nr"s the L't'OMid fo- sludv in' eiiho" "flip l?omaii"e or fipi'iiiiinie {.'roup. T l '-!) nine 1 ' mav he dull" with a list of l'>" ond one of the consonants. (•"•et''«f with n few pp=v rn'p.s civiiiß tlieir variation* in Hie different toiisin'-. ' Tlip same method mav H'"" ]■,» mnilied to the second 'Ji'niin. and il is encniira'!in? to know Ilia! "iai"- of )l|.- «»hip ni!"s and ev"(.|itioiis. with their rea-nns. apply in both.

If l]i° sti'dp'.t darled "ilh n fair liiiowlpik'p of I'rcnch ;"'d Orinnn ''» would now 1"> nhlp. after '."jim: rarndlv tliroii"h on "'eineiitpTV »ra™!iiiir. lo rmid any nf Hi" l,'"""i'ice ■""! O-manio hmRuac/s with 'idle orVnrl. 'I'lic rest is nipvolv ~. i.vitl'- of owl--:'.

TJinnwl, Hir. Sl-v ."mil" it , n r,,. ( , ,li(fi,M..lf il will lip fc'iod. <-n-pin!lv ; f Hie first two f.'T-oui)-: have' '•('(■•' crel'ii'lv u'onc

thiwmh e'ul one »f. Hip K'-iv 'aiimiiirs coniniPiiccd. >I>ml similar "'edimls in'iv lie anoli-d in this I,'i'i.im. 'Hie mva-d-thp literature of the whole Slav world ana'l from alVa.irs of comliiprce—makes it worth while.

And wpnl--'ludv i~ mil- ?■> "dry-as-du-d" p,. „„.. ~.'.,.,.! „-.,f,."„ M ..p,-.1,.,,-p led <v lo r-li-vp. |j is ohwlv ("'i"e<-led with Ihe uln.ly i,f iialiiio--. "f l'"'i" I'islory. aiicienl nod modern. Hicir liloritu'e. tli"ir <-nstnins, laws, religions, and tlieir dealings one willi anollicr.