The loom of language
a guide to foreign languages for the home student
by Frederick Bodmer · first published 1943
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Check out "The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages" by Frederick Bodmer. I'm reading it now and it's quite extraordinary. It seems like a particularly good fit for someone with your linguistic background,…
on “Can Duolingo Teach You Spanish?” ↗Frederick Bodmer's "The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages", an oldie but goodie from 1944. Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates…
on “Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.” ↗In Bodmer's "The Loom of Language", a fabulously arch smorgasbord of linguistic delicacies, his withering analysis of Volapuk concludes that what really did for the language was the decision to use it exclusively in what turned out to…
on “Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük (2012)” ↗