Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

--- Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>
wrote:
> I was thinking of making a list of easy and
> interesting (from a
> linguistic point of view) languages for people who
> speak various
> languages to learn,
As soon as a person speaks two different languages
then the whole picture can change radically.  After
taking Latin in high school I found I could figure out
quite a lot of written Italian and Spanish with no
training at all in those languages.

And I imagine if you knew English and German then
Dutch, Frisian, and maybe even Swedish would come
pretty easily.  (I know nothing about Swedish, but my
daughter is fluent in it and I can almost understand
her sometimes based on my knowledge of German.)

So maybe it should be organized in a grid with first
language across the top and second language down the
side.  Then each cell of the grid would contain
languages that would be easy for a person who already
speaks those two languages.