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From: D.Rogers@irl.cri.nz (Donald Rogers)
Subject: Re: Why Esperanto is not more widely used (was "Design" of an IAL)
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 20:52:35 GMT
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In article <3219a7a2.91509844@news.nando.net>,
   dgary@nando.net (D Gary Grady) wrote:
>Experiments have indeed been done in which Esperanto was used as a
>propaedeutic -- I hope I've spelled that right -- antecedant to the
>teaching of German, French, and a number of other languages, 
including
>English, all with positive results. That is, the time required to
>learn the subsequent language was greatly reduced, generally by 
about
>the amount of time expended on Esperanto, and sometimes even more.

There is currently another experiment of this type being carried out 
in Australia. The project "EKPAROLI" is lead by Jennifer and Alan 
Bishop and it aims to study the efficacy of learning Esperanto on the 
subsequent learning of especially Asian languages.
Read the article in the magazine "Esperanto" May 1996 page 92.

