The Loom of Language

An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

Recommended by Eric Weinstein, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #43 in Linguistics, Ranked #51 in Language

It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages—Teutonic, Romance, Greek—helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.


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