So I’ve seen a comment about learning Spanish making you get a little grip on Portugeese and Italian, my own language helps understand our neighbors.

I wonder, how to abuse that system for the most efficient pick of 3 or 4 languages to rule them all? Let the bar be just reading, text as simple as social media posts.

Again, not people (or we can just put this link, but languages treated as autonomous entities by science.

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
    15·
    7 months ago

    I’ll start with the concept of Language Families. Read that article, it explains a lot.

    Then look at the list of language families. You’ll start to see that what you’re asking is pretty complicated. I got this video from my library a while ago which is very good.

    I would start from your “target” language groups and work back from that. I want to know Russian so I’ll learn that which will help with other Slavic and East Slavic languages languages.

    I’ve not searched but I’m sure there are YT vids about language families too.