Intercultural Perspective
Primary Esperanto puts languages and cultures in perspective, helping children to understand :
1.That there are real equivalent alternatives to English: not just different words for fruits and animals, but different ways to make sentences, different sounds to make words and different nameable concepts!
2. How languages relate to cultures, how cultures relate to countries, how countries relate to continents, and how geography and history have influenced them all.
3. That everyone learns a first language more or less by chance, but that subsequent language acquisition is a choice: sometimes an obligation, sometimes a privilege. This provides an excellent basis for personal choice and detailed study of particular languages and cultures later.
1.That there are real equivalent alternatives to English: not just different words for fruits and animals, but different ways to make sentences, different sounds to make words and different nameable concepts!
2. How languages relate to cultures, how cultures relate to countries, how countries relate to continents, and how geography and history have influenced them all.
3. That everyone learns a first language more or less by chance, but that subsequent language acquisition is a choice: sometimes an obligation, sometimes a privilege. This provides an excellent basis for personal choice and detailed study of particular languages and cultures later.
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