Esperanto or Interlingua ?

[starionwolf]

Does anyone know Esperanto or Interlingua? I'm reading about these two languages. Both of them are interesting. I might learn them when I have more time.

Feel free to share your opinons about Esperanto or Interlingua.

Just wondering.

Edit: I just found a few communities about Esperanto. I'll join these groups now and ask questions there

Comments

[pendragoness]

I can't speak/write Interlingua, but I'm a native English speaker who has studied French, and I can read the language without much difficulty at all, whereas I had a lot of difficulty looking at Esperanto (especially because there appears to be a lot of funky spelling rules and gramatical contructions), due to differences in how vocabulary is contructed in the two languages.

Re: Interlingua

[starionwolf]

I envy you because you understand French. I can't. lol

Thanks for the reply. I agree that the words in Esperanto look strange. maybe I should learn Interlingua first, or at least learn about it. I read that Interlingua is based on the romance languages.

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Re: Interlingua

[allegrox]

Interlingua is, more or less, uninflected vulgar Latin. I spent a few minutes reading about Interlingua and was able to unterstand some simple sentences without any background in any language but English. I read something about Swedish children who learned it and then were able to read newspapers in Spanish and French without knowing them. I never really got into it, though.
It's fairly easy, but Esperanto is much simpler. Some of the vocabulary is weird, but I was conversational within hours. My vocabulary isn't very good yet, but it doesn't take long to learn more. People complain that the words aren't very intuitive, but if you speak a European language, you likely won't have a very hard time finding word associations to help you remember.

Re: Interlingua

[allegrox]

To be fair, I should also point out that Esperanto has some weird quirks. As pointed out below, there's an accusative case, which it could probably do without (I've read of some people dropping it), and the really weird table of correlatives. It's phonology is also not very universal, but pretty easy if you can handle Polish. Of course, a good number of people in the world probably can't very easily.

Esperanto

[pendragoness]

I have studied Esperanto. I can read it well and speak it to some extent. Every ending in esperanto is regular in form ,unlike the French, and although I do not think it is easy to learn, I do consider it to be easier than national languages.There are many speakers all over the world, especially in Eastern Europe and Brazil.