2008年4月15日星期二

Introduction to international language


Human language is the principal instrument of the exchange of ideas. It is precisely because of language, can be mutual understanding between people; it is because of language, of human knowledge and experience can be handed down from generation to generation. Children in a period of the greatest harvest is learn a speech. However, people who speak different languages in the mutual exchanges, language differences have become an insurmountable obstacle. The past, people aspire to a common language. "Bible" are the records of a "Barbieri Babel" story, as well as China's ancient books "Rites," "get off the track today, with the text" records, reflects the people's good wishes. According to linguists to statistics, there are now thousands of languages around the world. In the process of global integration is accelerating today, among nations, nationalities and increasingly frequent contacts between the people of the growing need to break the language barrier. In many countries of the school, are an important foreign language courses. However, if a person wants to master a foreign language and the very different native language is not easy. Moreover, even if the time spent several years learn a foreign language, not necessarily in the country in the world unhindered, because although you learned the language of a country, in the State B may send not useless. Even if you have mastered the language of the two countries and B, and C in the country is not necessarily useful. Learning a variety of foreign languages, and people spent a lot of time, energy and resources. In such circumstances, people naturally think: There should be an international language, a person besides their mother tongue, to learn the international language, we can access the world. In other words, the international language is not to replace the national language, but in different national languages to serve as a bridge between the role. Well, what language suitable to serve as international language? Some say that any of the national language, as long as we all agree that the international use of it, not to solve this problem? The question is: what kind of national language? Each country wishing to use their own languages as international language. This is not surprising, because each person most familiar with, the most commonly used, the language of most specialty is their mother tongue. British and the Americans hope that the world use English as the international language, France - French, Germany - German, Japanese - Japanese, Chinese - Chinese. According to the most equitable way, it should be all kinds of statistics around the world language, the use of language or languages in which the largest number of such language is the recognized international language. This calculation, the Chinese are eligible to become international language, the use of Chinese as the number of over 1.3 billion, putting it far ahead of any other use of a number of languages. However, the Chinese feel that it is more difficult for Westerners in the language of the West, we want to learn Chinese, spend at least seven or eight years or even decades, as a national language not suitable for the Chinese as international language. So, whether using English as international language? The use of English after the number of Chinese is the most widely used national language. In science and technology and international trade, and other fields, and now the international language English agent actually some of the functions, some experts even predicted that the English will be the end of this century "conquer" the world has become the common language of mankind. This, however, still too early to predict, after all, the number of English-speaking now only one-tenth of the world's population. Moreover, the status of languages and is closely related to the status of countries. If the use of English as the international language, the United States, Britain and other English-speaking countries would be in the international political, economic, cultural and other fields has an absolute advantage in the position, which is very negative and, therefore, will surely be met with non-English-speaking countries strongly opposed. For example, France has long resisted the English to French cultural erosion. Why is the international language must not be a single national language? Adopt an international language as a national language, will be given to this nation and the state brought many privileges, but also to other peoples and countries inequality. In order to learn the language, other peoples and nations must constantly pay incalculable human, material and financial resources, and in this language is the mother tongue of peoples and nations without any additional pay, we can all areas in the world to enjoy the various exchanges facilitate access to great interest. This is very unfair and unreasonable, no country in the world and the nation would willingly accept it.
Indeed, history has had to act as a national language suitable to the functions of precedent, such as the Latin of the Roman Empire period in the whole history of the 10 century stage, in the western world to play the role of a common language. Another example is the French in the French Empire its peak, then have exclusive international diplomatic forum. But this is not what the people's consent or choice, but when a country's economic, political strength of the results of expansion. So with the collapse of the Roman Empire, Latin for the emerging countries on abandoned by the same token, the decline of the French empire, but also makes French international glorious gradually dim. Now English (or English) are also experiencing the same Latin and French history, and the Latin and French course of the rise and fall of a short course, because the demands of ethnic equality and oppose discrimination language voice , than any past era of the more strongly.
As a national language suitable to have an unfavorable factors: any of the national language, in the long-term habits are formed, including a large number of irregular and unreasonable factors, study up wasting time and effort. In English as an example, the pronunciation of many words and spelling inconsistencies, there are many irregular verbs, as memory needs more on the customary terms. Because it is more difficult for learning English, although the English of many people, but very few people really learn. International language should have the following characteristics: First, it is a neutral, international, for all of the races are easy to learn. Secondly, it is a logical and strong, structural precision, no exceptions. Thirdly, it should be a unity between spoken and written language, pronunciation and spelling consistent. Fourth, it can express different nuances of the national language, can be used to translate any national language.
Clearly, the only artificial language consistent with these standards. Datong is such a phrase artificial international language.

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