...Interlingue Occidental does not contain invented words, but has a natural appearance. So, the first desideratum is naturalness, and this implies that the language must be based on the thousands of international words already in existence. Interlingue Occidental has incorporated, practically as they stand, the many words that are common property of a number of different languages. It has been calculated that 38% of the words in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German are the same. This yields more than 10,000 words which can be understood at sight by most literate peoples. The early authors of an international language, unable to embody these words in a simple system, either deformed them out of all recognition, or largely rejected them. But the problem was solved when Professor Edgar de Wahl, a scholar of Reval (Estonia), succeeded in regularising this international vocabulary. His solution, INTERLINGUE, or OCCIDENTAL, combines regularity with naturalness so ingeniously that we feel we are reading and writing an ethnical tongue. Here are a few of its words: avi-e bird avi-ar to fly avi-on aeroplane avi-ator avi-ation avi-atica naviga-r to navigate naviga-tion naviga-tor naviga-bil naviga-bil-ita circum-naviga-tion medi-e middle medi-ar to mediate medi-ation medi-ator medi-al medi-an, etc. PRONUNCIATION. Vowels: a, e, i, o, u = continental, all sounded; y (initial and medial) as in yes; ey (final) as in they; eu as éh-oo...
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...word. There are no authoritative dictionaries or voices. * Late modern English (1756 - nowadays). First authoritative dictionary of the English language, by Samuel Johnson, which provided spellings, sounds and ethimology. It was decided not to establish an Academy of English. Importance of the English language. A language lives only when it is spoken by anyone. Its importance depends on the importance or influence of the people who speak it. English is spoken by 340 million people as a mother tongue. It is the language of Western languages. Political, economical and scientific reasons are related to the importance of a language. But English is also very broadly spoken as second language (communication, commerce). The growth of the Spanish language goes with the growth of Latin American countries. It is also probable that pidgin and Creole varieties of English are more and more widespread spoken where English is not the first language. Will English ever become the world language? Many people are strongly opposed to an artificial language (like Esperanto). Perhaps the most representative languages in the world are spoken in united nations...
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...Understanding personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, indefinite pronouns • Charts of subject, object, possessive, and indefinite pronouns • Review exercises of all pronouns Lesson 3: Verbs • Understanding action, linking, and helping verbs • Chart of common helping verbs • Review exercises of all verbs Lesson 4: Verb Tenses • Understanding regular and irregular verbs • Understanding present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, present progressive, past progressive, and future progressive tenses • Chart of common irregular verbs • Review exercises of regular and irregular verb forms in tenses 1 3 13 15 23 29 35 vi contents Lesson 5: Adjectives • Understanding common, proper, possessive, and demonstrative adjectives • Review exercises of all adjective forms Lesson 6:...
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