Esperanto

[cdvantuyl]

Mi lernis Esperanton antaux 60 jaroj kaj ofte uzas gxin. Mi havas kelkajn geamikojn kiuj tute ne parolas angle..CD van Tuyl

[cdvantuyl]

Spoken Esperanto is very pleasant. To me it sounds a lot like Italian.

[ladybrettkayla]

does someone with the name "1337pr1nc355" have any authority of language?

[clds84]

I enjoy languages very much and will read up on the site listed in the description. Thanks. I can see however, how people might feel negative towards it because it does not represent a particular culture. I won't have the same satisfaction as sitting next to a French at a terrible sandwich shop, kneeling over and saying "how about this cheese?", but that's okay : p

[baluesperantisto]

Estas multaj esperanto-parolantoj kaj mi estas unu el ili. Esperanto estas utila por ni cxiuj, kiuj elektis fari el gxi nian lingvon. La personoj kiuj diras malgxustajn informojn pri Esperanto simple montras, ke ili scias nenion pri gxi.

[firehandszarb]

I'm a native english english speaker. I love the english language but even so I can see how because of its fairly chaotic structure and many archaic non-phoenetic spellings, there is great difficulty for a non-native speaker (and no doubt i would encounter difficulties with any language other than my own). A contructed language like esperanto would seem to have a number of advantages over english.

[JasonDamisch]

Esperanto estas neuzebla lingvo!

[HojoOSanagi]

I prefer Ido in both sound and because it has easier grammar in comparison to Esperanto, but unfortunately it seems Esperanto is getting farther ahead in the struggle for international supremacy.

[fiorixF1]

Ekzakte, maldiligenta piĉo

[shedisek]

Trili via R-oj, maldiligenta piĉon.

[lumaix]

damn your fucking ugly muffin

[PATRICELUMUMBAS]

0ooo

[sirach]

Fakte, Esperanto ne estas neutila ĉar oni povas komunikadi kun aliaj personoj el aliaj landoj kun neŭtrala nivelo.

I love Esperanto... I can express myself better in it than I do in English!

[Tzumachiru]

How can you say that its useless? Its a neutral language that anyone can learn to speak fluently in 3-5 months. How is that useless? Just because there is only 2 mil speakers?. Infact, all languages are usefull if you ask me

[1337Pr1nc355]

@Tzumachiru Holy freaking crap did you not read the description?

[Maturion]

please, guys. esperanto IS useless.... live with that but don't try making it look like esperanto has any importance in the world. hardly anyone except some group of nerds speaks it... and this IS the TRUTH

[atronix]

@Maturion Esperanto is a useless language without any culture behind it.

[Believer977]

@Maturion Definitely not useless. Unpopular in comparison when compared to natural languages? Yes. Can you learn Esperanto and visit a foreign country and be able to interact in that culture the same way natives do? No. However, you can visit over half the countries in the world and get free lodging with people who speak it, can learn it in under 3 months if you study hard, and interact with people from virtually anywhere with the same fluency as speaking with someone in your mother tongue.

[Believer977]

@Maturion All kinds of people speak Esperanto as well, it isn't a "nerd" language as you have described. If you were speaking about Klingon or Elvish I could certainly see your point. People types range from sexy 20 year old Korean women to 60 year old Finnish professors learn and use it. Very different kinds of people learn it but the one thing all have in common is that they are interested in communicating with natives of foreign countries in an easy way. It does serve a useful purpose

[sewinghippie]

your face is more useless than Esperanto

[1337Pr1nc355]

That's not what your mom said last night. OHHHH SNAPS.

[sewinghippie]

i'm gonna give you a second to think about what you just said, hahaha

[1337Pr1nc355]

Oh I thought about it, and it was hilarious.

[sewinghippie]

allllright if you like to eat my mom out that's not my problem. now you have a nice day sweetheart ;)

[1337Pr1nc355]

I'm not insinuating that i would like to eat your mom out in real life, but it made a pretty good your mom joke if you ask me. Oh goodness. You have a lovely day as well!

[ABucketfulofMariah]

you're an idiot. you just said that their mom called your face useless.

also esperanto isn't useless. i'm using it to meet friends all over the world. i'm talking to a person from spain who doesn't speak english. also his name is jesus. top that.

[1337Pr1nc355]

Mmmmkay, no the joke was my face was not useless to sewinghippie's mom, in the fact that in the hypothetical joke situation where I am apparently a lesbian which is not reflective of real life but makes a really good your mom joke. I could not resist the hilarity. Secondly, I know two people named Jesus, both of which are bilingual and of Mexican descent.

[1337Pr1nc355]

Third, I currently attend a school, and also went to a highschool, that delight me with interaction with international students from many different countries. Esperanto has not helped me communicate with any of them. Who's the idiot now, read the freaking description before you comment, also, read COMMENTS before you comment about them. Rude.

[pauswa1966]

Saluton. Vi parolis Esperanton sufiĉe bone. Do, kial vi opinias, ke ĝi ne estas utila? Estas fakte interese, ke vi opinias tion, ĉar mi povas skribi al vi en Esperanton, ke vi havos nenian ideon, kion mi skribis. Tial, la lingvo ja estas utila, ĉar multe da homoj krom vi povas kompreni ĝin.

Esperanto is way easier than English.

[davidslavibaste7]

I'm not agree.

[aktivisti92]

esperanto bela lingvo<3

[Jenoer]

roflmao, a chipmunk videoblogger.

[1337Pr1nc355]

what?

[Jenoer]

Too bad you use photoshop in the intro, the real roadkill chipmunk shows it's face when the moving video starts.

[1337Pr1nc355]

That photo is not photoshopped. You are a jackass.

[DieAlptraume]

i think Esperanto is not that difficult to learn if you already know a European language, particularly those of Romance or Germanic language. However, for others. For example, i am Chinese, if i didn't know English well enough at the first place, it would be a huge work to remember all the words since our language is totally not connected to esperanto etymologically. But esperanto is quite useful to learn as a mediate to other European language though (quite helpful in my latin study)

[1337Pr1nc355]

I agree, English is crazy!

[whitebull11]

You can't learn Esperanto fluently in 3 months. I wish people would stop telling this lie. You must memorize thousands of words and learn lots of grammer. And Esperanto has more than 16 grammer rules no matter what they say. Esperanto may be easier to learn than Chinese or German but easier is not the same as easy. I hate when people say they learned it fluently in a week or two. Esperantists love to use false propaganda. Stop telling lies to get people to learn it.

[1337Pr1nc355]

Once again, I don't care, I found a silly website and thought I would share the silliness, don't take your obviously well prepared argument out on someone unimportant. I have NOTHING to do with said website, I just thought it was silly, so take your rantings elsewhere.

[RenataVentura]

Sorry, but it is not false propaganda. I learned Esperanto in 4 months without studying much.

Of course, there are people who take a little longer. It's quite natural. People take different times to learn different things.

But because it is based in so many other languages, it has a vocabulary that always sounds familiar. And because of the sufixes and prefixes, when you learn one word, you learn 20. That's why it's so much faster.

[eeuwige]

What you are telling, is completely false. You don't have to learn "a lot of grammar", because Esperanto don't have "a lot of grammar".

And yes, Esperanto is easy. I have learned several foreign language and thus I can compare. That's reality, not what you are trying to tell us.

[edwardb90]

Grammer? I thought it was grammar.

[triniguy999]

@whitebull11 maybe u didn't. I could speak it with the aid of a dictionary after 2 days and in a couple months i was excellent at it

[Biochips1]

Esperanto is the world language!

1. It's ten times easier to learn than any other language

2. It's neutral and fair.

3. You can learn to speak Esperanto fluently in 3 months.

4. Everyone can learn Esperanto no matter where he/she comes from. Even people with low education can learn it in a very short time.

5. The world won't tolerate English as the world language because it's too arrogant and not neutral.

[wixxwi]

esparanto is good... this girl is nice .. but this video is crap...

[Bira8Fehera]

Ĉu vi jam parolas ĝin?

Aperu pli tra la reto esperante se jes!

[Elmogirl1234]

Unu du tri kvar

[Kougarou]

OMG, you talk esperanto like a 3yo baby!

[1337Pr1nc355]

OMG You're a douche!

[codybanks07]

OMG, ROFL xD

[ILuvEire]

OMD, via panji parolas Esperanton sama de bebo!

[Jenoer]

Agreed.

[esperantistabr]

Via prononco tute malbonas!

[EVWOOL]

Placxas al mi. La verkistino estas vera komediistino.

[1337Pr1nc355]

Thanks!

[Ashmsx]

hey, where's the cherry??? =/

[1337Pr1nc355]

I ate it!

[ballebanan]

So when do you predict Esperanto is going to take over as the lingua franca? To be perfectly honest, I've never ever met anyone who speaks the language, so it seems to move along pretty slowly. Personally, I get along just fine in the world with English. Creating a linguistic utopia where everyone speaks the same language is as far fetched as world peace. But then, I've become slightly pragmatic in my adult years.

[EVWOOL]

I've never me anyone who speaks iranian but rumour has it that one or two people do. However, I have had a brilliant evening in a babilejo (chat room) where I joined in an Esperanto discussion between a polish lady, a brazilian and a frenchman none of whom could speak English.

[wrappedhands]

After studying Esperanto for a year you will learn other languages much, much faster.

[Nikolette11]

Why not just study a REAL language for a year and actualy use it in a country where it is the official language which is something you cant do with Esperanto. I dont speak it but I do speak Spanish and Italian. If you have difficulties learning a romance language then why would you go and study a language spoken by a few people compared to how many people speak Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian ect. ect. But who knows maybe it does help people who ONLY speak english.

[1Haze1]

because apparently studies have shown that you are more proficient at spanish, french, italian and so on if you study esperanto for a small percent of the time you intended to study the other language. so study esperanto for 6 months and a language for a year and a half and you should be better at that language then if you studied it for 2 years. APPARENTLY, im not saying its true im saying thats the reasoning behind it.

[NegativeClock]

Do vi pensas ke Eo estas tre senutila.

Senutila. Senutila.

Sed certe vi mem ja uzas la lingvon! Eble vi eldormiĝos kaj konscios ke la Esperanta lingvo estas utila. >: O

[1337Pr1nc355]

Read the description, please.

[NegativeClock]

Do vi eldormiĝetis, bona.

[jackreneee]

You are very smart to try to learn Esperanto in your own. Although I speak fluently English, I do not accept it as an International Language. Your language carriers with itself lots of American / English culture, things that I do not want to consume.

Esperanto has no culture associated with it.

With Esperanto, you could keep your own culture, and I could keep my brazilian culture as well. Really cool! Hugs!

[1337Pr1nc355]

Oh, I never said I thought English was useful. It's one of the most complicated languages ever.

[jackreneee]

Mi tute kongruas kun vin!

Angla idiomo estas ege malfacila por studi.

Ĝis kaj multaj ĉirkaŭbrakoj al vi!

[mightyjedi14]

No its not its soo simple- my eyes have never gaved upon anything so easy to learn! :D

[vagnero]

Saluton esperantistino!!! Vi loĝas en Usono, ĉu ne?

Ĉirkaŭbrako de la geamikojn el Brazilo! :)

[wynandwinterbach]

Oh god. That green alien, Zam! I wanted to start learning Esperanto a couple of years ago and it (Zam) put me off entirely.

I know the people behind that Esperanto course worked hard, but Zam is not cool in anyone's books.

I have found some other resources at Lernu (the site is still a bit sugary, in my opinion) and I've been at Esperanto for 1 1/2 weeks now. I love it!

There are better resources. Have a look for Gerda Malaperis! (which is on the Lernu site).

[Dirawz]

With the amount of friends that I have gained through it, and the wonderful poetry, music, and novels I've been introduced to, I can't consider it useless. I've been learning Japanese for 3 years through my high school and I know that I still won't know enough to get around in Japan. So, using the Pasporta Servo, I can look up a family in Japan that will host me and we can use Esperanto as the middle language. :-D

[1337Pr1nc355]

I made this video because the phrases were silly and I thought it was awkward that the website's mascot was an alien. As you will see in the description I have since learned that Esperanto isn't useless. :-)

[Dirawz]

Ah okay then, thanks for pointing that out to me. Sorry I didn't think to look at the description. Heh, my apologies. Gxis!

[1337Pr1nc355]

It's perfectly alright I probably should have checked my facts to begin with!

[raonisousa]

"Mi estas pli internacia ol vi", "mi volas brakumi tiun sciuron", ĉu tiuj frazoj estas el la kurso aŭ ĉu vi mem kreis ĝin? hehehehe

[1337Pr1nc355]

No those are actually on the website. Sorry for not replying in esperanto, I don't know enough to and I don't trust translators with full sentences!

[LaPingvino]

Dankon pro ĉi tiu amuza filmeto! Mi esperas ke ne tro da homoj plendos... Multan sukceson pri viaj faraĵoj!

LaPingvino el Nederlando :)

[1337Pr1nc355]

Alright I think I got that, the first sentence is clear to me but the rest was a little harder. I do hope you were not being sarcastic.

[DarthMaul8065]

I am an Esperanto speaker. I find it amazing that she finds Esperanto useless. I myself used Esperanto on a practical basis while living in Poland. If anyone seriously investigates the issue and reads Zamenhof's First Book, they may think otherwise.

[oksigeno]

Ridiculous is the rate of sucess in engli$h language in European schools: about 1% :-P

Ridiculous is the government of my country spend a very big amount of money in a nazi comunication "solution" that doesn't respect a lot of basic human rights.

Ridiculous is almost nobody I know says spell "apple" before try to learn the international linguage of discrimination about years.

Se vi informighus pli pri la aferoj antaw diri stultajxojn pri ghi vi multe pli gajnus.

[1337Pr1nc355]

I'm sorry I didn't quite understand where you were going with that.

[oksigeno]

You didn't quite understand because I can't say what I want in this foreign linguage, if I could express miself freely I make a satisfatory comment but I (and almost 90% of planet population) transform miself instantly in a mental retarded when I speack YOUR FOREIGHN NATIVE linguage - after study that for YEARS in the school!!

[1337Pr1nc355]

I know exactly what you mean as I've studied Spanish for ages and am still not fluent. What's your native language? Maybe that would help.

[oksigeno]

My native linguages is Portuguese and the REAL international linguage, recognized and ???(where is my diccionary?) by UNESCO withowt the pressure of economic lobbies and really ... learn...(learnable??)

[tylerguy2]

ok, well.... just a little tip for you (not that you care) but J isn't pronounced like the English J. its pronounced like the German J(or the English Y)

so in the word you pronounced wrong (Japono)you said Japono instead of Yapono. but, for some reason you got the word Multaj right.

[1337Pr1nc355]

Good to know!

[Ashmsx]

Ho! Kio busxo!

I wanna be that cherry.

Só acho que o inglês é mais ridiculo, isso é... Mas valeu a tentativa de aparecer no youtube, mesmo que depreciando alguma coisa...

[1337Pr1nc355]

I think something may have gotten lost in translation there, do you speak anything other that Portuguese?

[Ashmsx]

Yep, i speak esperanto and english as well ;)

[xqxballx69x]

The reason the teacher is an alien, is because ersperanto was invented by aliens. Little did you know that the early, early, early egyptians used this language after they were told to build the pyramids.

[pherruginus]

Actually it was created by a Polish oculist in 1887.

[xqxballx69x]

was only kidding.

[pherruginus]

I know, but there are too few people who know about Esperanto and spreading mis-information or giving the appearance of insanity doesn't help.

[amadeus5521]

I think I'd have to espectively disagree...Esperanto is the most useful language I've ever learned. Esperanto has opened up a whole new world to me. Everyday I learn more and more about other cultures and people by using Esperanto.

The Esperanto "movement" is growing exponentially thanks to the Internet...and I am glad to be a part of it =)

P.s. Very good, and useful phrases...try this one on for size: Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!

(My hovercraft is full of eels!)