International Cooperation
and
Language Barriers

The Rational Approach
to the Language Barrier Solution

Rastislav Harcarufka
Slovak representative of Interlingua and Union Mundial pro Interlingua

International communication 
is unavoidable...

The European Union building, West-East bridging, globalisation and the others actual international activities bring the urgent needs of international communication not only in the Europe (including approximately 30 legal languages), but also throughout the world.

...but unsatisfied solved.

The Maastricht's Agreement defines clearly "equality of rights" of the all official languages of the European Union. 
There are 26 official languages in the European Union today, and the annual cost for the solving of the language barrier is a lot of millions €. 

No national language is able to solve it so effective...

English is popular and intensive used language in international communication today. But also French or Spanish are actual somewhere, yet.
But neither English nor other national languages are not able to bring effective and democratic solution, because are national - specific, alien. 

... as a neutral language.

Within living memory the people attempt to solve international communication by so-called neutral (auxiliary) languages. 
Already J. A. Comenius and other celebrities suggest this way. Even though present attempts (such as ro, volapuk or esperanto) remained experiments, they vindicate the possibility and efficiency of this way.

The rational approach is... 

The language barrier problem may be solved by various ways. The rational approach is to understand the language as the communication tool (technology) with alphabet, vocabulary, speech, grammar, practical using of which should be effective and economical.

... INTERLINGUA.

The Interlingua is only neutral language based on the serious philology research, based on the common conjunctions of the most European languages; and as such it is easy to learn and to use for which-ever nationality.
Interlingua is "modern Latin", with actual vocabulary, natural pronunciation and the worldwide simplest grammar.
More information:

•	http://www.interlingua.com 
•	http://rhr.netkosice.sk/ia (in Slovak)