Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Simplified English

I have recently stumbled upon such thing as Simplified English. Even for my ears, Russian being my native language, Simplified English sounds rather strange and, well, oversimplified. I read a few sample sentences, and it is clear that all of them lack some part of sense comparing to the original English sentences upon which they were constructed.

It seems that there is no "Velvet Way" or "Silver Bullet" that could solve the problem of communication between people with different native languages worldwide. I did not ever hear about language school that teaches "Simple, or Simplified Language". Just opposite, all of them claim that their method allows one to master English (or other language of interest) to maximum possible level, and this fact clearly indicates that there is no or little demand for learning Simple Language.

My conclusion is that there are no ways, except for long persistent systematic work, to learn any foreign language.