Esperanto Anthem

[AleviAsker]

'here 

[JournaloftheWiccan]

I really want to know this "language" but so far all I can do is learn how to read and write it :(

I don't know where I can learn to speak it. It sounds like a mix of Latin and Scandinavian languages. sounds pretty~

[AleviAsker]

@JournaloftheWiccan I learned Esperanto hear: en . lernu . net (It is free)

[Curse274]

EU should adopt this. All the continents should do a similar idea and then one super language will unite all. It could happen like this but English is basically elbowing and robbing it's way to the top. Oh well, languages will be languages.

[silverfoxidm]

Like Steve said, "Who has even heard of it let alone speak it?" I thought Esperanto was a special suit the bull fighter dressed up in!"

[joshmay94]

Estas facila rimi la vortoj en Esperanto....cxiom substantivoj finas en "o" aux "oj"

[AleviAsker]

@joshmay94 "oj" estas plurarolo ;)

[neilnachum1]

I am an average Esperanto speaker. I occasionally enjoy speaking in Spanish, Hebrew, Portugues and Arabic, but I am most comfortable speaking in Esperanto as a Second Language, where I am most confident. I have 11 years of formal study of Spanish, 4 years of formal study of Hebrew and three years of formal study of Arabic. Portuguese I learned while singing and traveling in Brazil (visiting Esperantists).

[Drudak]

pli ol iam ajn, ni bezonas tiun internacian lingvon ! kaj nenie GLOBISH kiu ruinigas homaron en la profundeco de nia esto...

Sincere

[rabbitwho]

@wolfratungs I've only been learning Spanish about 2 weeks and I understood your post. Spanish is too easy and to beautiful for Esperanto to be necessary.

No hablo español pero comprendo! Español es muj bonito y fácil. Esparanto no es necesario.

I know I butchered that, but if I can get a basic idea across in a natural language (the second most spoken on earth) after such a short ammount of time then why learn Esperanto?

[ushrark]

esperanto sucks no cultural background :P

[TheFreasts]

@ushrark you're wrong

[ushrark]

@TheFreasts tell me.

[TheFreasts]

@ushrark Esperanto made it's own culture. For example films, music. Every language started like this. And Esperanto for example is older than languages like Afrikaans or Pidgin English.

[TehAsploder]

Mi amas Esperanton.

[elPlatoIsPaulCharles]

Jes!

[tatyana172008]

Thanks for the translation!

[eduhilvv]

I am also Brazilian and I agree with Eikinkloster. Portuguese and Spanish Languages are totally different, there are a lot of "false friends". We prefer to speak English or Portuguese, of course, with foreign people than Spanish.

[frilliebean]

Si, te entendio. El espanol es mi lengua primaria pero naciendo y viviendo en EEUU se me a hido. El Esperanto es ermoso y muy facil.

Perdoname si hay muchas faltas.

[eiannoctebrisa]

Dios!!! ...Ido con "h"!!! No pasa nada, pero el verbo "ir" nunca va con "h". Its a very big mistake. Hermoso si lleva h, Yo diría lengua "materna", en vez de "primaria" y "habiendo nacido" en vez de "naciendo".Spanish is not that easy, but you can still speak it, spelling is not that important.

[ZHEREAL]

funnyaccent, put the lyrics, please! This is veerryyyy complicated to understand.

[queerpriestess]

Beautiful

[HANSMKAMP]

Maybe you can make a better language than Zamenhof. I bet you can't.

[rabbitwho]

@HANSMKAMP English? Spanish? Russian? Bengali? French? Chinese? Czech? Irish? Korean? Latin? German? Dutch? Swahili? Bantu? Hebrew? Yiddish? Arabic? Portuguese? Catalan? Estonian? Danish? Sweedish? Icelandic? Turkish? Italian? Polish? Urdu? Sunda? Greek? Nepali? Kurdish? Zulu? Afrikaans? Romani? Karen? Sorry to the millions and millions of people I left out, not enough space. Can we understand each other without sharing our languages? Learn a new language and gain a new soul. No culture=no soul

[PlayerAlpha]

I personally find the song from Final Fantast most amazing......

Memoro de la Stono

but the theme suits a tragedy best

"Sed tra la nokto tempesta brilas jen stelo de glor Kontrau brutala kri fontas jen kant sonor"

[69UM24OSU12]

You translated "Sed dissaltos la obstiaj baroj / Per la sankta amo disbatitaj" as "But the stubborn barriers shall jump out / By the sacred love that was attacked." The correct translation is: "But the stubborn barriers will burst apart, / Knocked apart by sacred love." There are some other errors, but this strayed farthest from the intended meaning. Anywy, I notice that it's been two years since this was posted, so you probably know Esperanto much better by now. Kia bela lingvo!

[PSDDHRTF]

Nun mi estis en Transsylvanio, kaj parenco de mi en Tirgu Mures (Marosvásárhely) diris, ke etnika paco nur efektivigxos, ke cxiu lernos Esperante. Konrad Berner (evangelika pastro) opiniis tion. Li mortis jam... Kaj Ceausescu abomenis ilin. ..

[soobajeaba]

I must agree with "The Tubeful" because, as I'm a native English speaker, and having Spanish as my second mother language, I can say that it is not as difficult as you think... I have also learnt Italian, e non è molto dificile per me...

French and Portuguese are difficult; these are difficult languages, and please, no offense for portuguese or french, but these languages have difficult sounds... That's what make them difficult... Nâo, for instance, impossible for a Spanish to say...

[PSDDHRTF]

OK, but not everybody are such guilted, like you.

[soobajeaba]

Guilted?

[PSDDHRTF]

OK, gifted or talented. It was my fault.

[josieldeassis]

If you speak Spanish, you can easyly learn Portuguese. Try the Brazilian, is very easy and wide-spread!

[Eikinkloster]

No he can't. Portuguese phonetics are totally different. If you speak Portuguese, Spanish comes easily. Not the other way.

I'm Brazilian and I have seen the Argentinians suffer to understand us.

[richardsonl91]

these are the very arguments Esperanto was made to eliminate

ĉi tiuj estas ĝuste tiuj argumentoj, ke Esperanto estis farita por elimini

[Eikinkloster]

It was a nice attempt, considering what little old Zam had to work with.

Lojban builds upon the experience and is seriously cool.

[Kwanelauda]

Busquen el sitio de la Federación Mexicana de Esperanto.

[DoodiePunk]

lovely anthem :)

[Kwanelauda]

Bueno, el Interlingua es un idioma para entenderse por escrito de manera rápida por quienes hablan lenguas romances, pero si pensamos en las razones de los esperantistas chinos o eslovacos, o rusos, veremos qlas ventajas de un idioma con reglas fáciles que todos puedan aprender mucho más rápido que el Inglés.

[Elfinloks08]

I'm American and I am learning Esperanto right now. I have studied Spanish, French, and Latin (I can only speak Latin fluently) for a while now and I see that Esperanto is very similar to it. I love this language!

Esperanto estas bonan!

[josieldeassis]

You speak fluent Latin?

Who do you use to talk to?

To the pope?

[Arlakossa]

La melodio estas stranga. Sufiĉe bela kiam aŭdeblas ĉiuj voĉpartoj, sed kiam kantiĝas nur la ĉefa parto de kelkdek malcertuloj, facile sonas terure.

[ivennein]

i'am from Mexico

and i like this lenguage and i speak esperanto.

[TheTubeful]

yea u speak esperant but.. try to learn english..

[ivennein]

well, i don't need learn english i speak english and is more easy than spanish and is my native lenguage, i learn the rules of the spanish gramatic is more dificult than french gramatic and i know speak french too, i don't need learn hungarian, czach, norwegian ok i need speak international lenguages like spanish,french,english,chiness­e,japanese,german,rusian and portuguese.

with the speranto is more easy learn all that lenguages.

[TheTubeful]

you´ve written "lenguage" twice... its language...this is bcuz i though you dont speak english so well...

[ivennein]

ooo mr. perfect, i speak english but i'm not perfect ok¡¡¡

je ne suis perfait

no soy perfecto, y te puedo hablar en español y yo se que tu tardarías para decir y escribir esto muy bien muchos años pinches gringos se creen mucho.

[Biochips1]

Interlingua is a much better language. It deserves more speakers than Esperanto.

[BolleNDH]

chök mich auf il pomme de terre strasdje with white hühner x mal periode

[aeroidus]

I think if Zamenhof were alive he would fucking praise the efficiency of Interlingua. Interlingua could kill the crap out of the shitty esperanto. Don't waste your precious time learning idiotic and ugly languages. ALL HAIL INTERLINGUA CHEAP MOTHERFUCKING BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LeMarquisDivin]

* suspiro *

[marcosEstrello]

Esperanto is the largest spoken international auxiliary language, yet it is still struggling to gain ground.

So what makes you think a significantly smaller IAL, like Interlingua, will surpass Esperanto?

Be rational.

[Mutusen]

I like relevant and convincing arguments like "MOTHERFUCKING BASTARDS".

[Mutusen]

It was supposed to be an answer to another comment.

[1996andjela]

@aeroidus FUCK YOU IDIOT!!!! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!?!?!YOUR SHITTY INTERLINGUA IS SHIT IN COMPARISON WITH ESPERANTO - ESPERANTO HAS MILLIONS OF SPEAKERS.INTERLINGUA HAS ONLY 100-200!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA

[kurfo]

Mi ne multe povas diri pri la traduko, mia angla ne estas tiel bone, sed ŝatus informi vin, ke ekzistas granda internacia komunumo kaj grupoj pri diversaj temoj ĉe "ipernity" - kaj vi eĉ povas facile (x-sisteme) skribi la esperanto-literojn sen kopii ilin el alia dokumento.

[Bjokac]

Saluton homo, iuj tradukitaj frazoj ne entute taŭgas, bonvolu kontroli.

Per la sankta amo disbatitaj

Destroyed by the sacred love

[AquarianAscent]

Sounds like the plot of an interesting novel. Get writing! ;)

[Tov0voT]

Are you promoting Esperanto as a weapon against the USA, China, Russia, and Vatican City?

[kimsnus]

yeag right... -.-

[ANZO89]

haha this idiom is very similar to spanish, i could understand a los of things, im from south america.

[andyskillen1992]

ya i realized that and theres no point to copy Spanish and make a knock off language i think its already like the 3rd popular

[Xaixis]

Actually only a few words such as estas are from spanish, if you take a look at their page alot of their words SOUND close to spanish but are actually derived from a multitude of languages. Plus, esperanto kicks spanish's ass, so much easier to learn.

[ANZO89]

i said "it is very SIMILAR to spanish", and the mayority of the words are from italian, that´s why i can understand them, and not as you said that derived from a multitude of languages. and what do you mean that esperanto kicks spanish´s ass?

[Xaixis]

Well obviously it is my opinion, but I dislike the spanish grammar very much, such as the past tenses and irregulars, I mean obviously I am being very biased but that is just the way I feel. I have been taking spanish for 2-3 years and I am just begginning to be able understand short conversations... to an extent. When I started learning esperanto on their page, I learned the basic grammar and some basic verbs, nouns, adjectives within 30-40 minutes. But then again, just my opinion

[ANZO89]

well, let me tell you my experience, ive been learning english since i was 6 years old, and i havent finished my studies in english grammar...so...tell which language i more dificult to teach and learn? english or spanish? obviously english.

in the english language you have a lot of irregular verbs and what i hate the most, phrasal verbs!!!! the english language doesnt have a rule for them!!! so imagine what i feel about it because i just started learnig them last year! it is a pain in the ass

[Xaixis]

Haha, I knew english would come up.

Were not talking about english, nor am I denying the difficulty of english, I was talking about esperanto and spanish. Also my experience with spanish (as in my spanish classes) have always been bad. But I just prefer esperanto, chill.

[ANZO89]

hey and btw, why did you decide to learn spanish? taking into account all the world study english for a matter of necesity, you, a native english speaker, why have you decided that?

[Xaixis]

Our schooling requires us to learn a foreign language, I choose spanish because I thought it would assist me (due to the large amount of immigration from Mexico -> US.

But also I want to learn foreign languages to broaden my horizons. I don't want to be limited to one languages, although I find it difficult to learn other languages because english is so much different than any other

[WITTO007]

I'm from Argentina, and we speak spanish here, but I have to agree that spanish is one of the hardest languages to learn, even for me. It has a lot of tenses and grammar rules, most of them useless.

English it's an easy language, but it's just a matter of liking the language or not.

[TheTubeful]

you must be really lazy or stupid.. english, spanish, french and things like that are one of the most simple languages ever... try hungarian, czech, norwegian or smt like that!

[jabdirector]

ci tio kanzono estas malsama ol alia kanzonoj, sed mi sxatas ci tio

[TonyDent84]

I don't know about other ones, but this one sounds very nice. I agree with you on that.

[sknotewwn18whwi5g]

It almost sounds like a cross between German and Lithuanian

[klins061]

I read somewhere that the phonemes selected for Esperanto were meant to make the language sound more Slavic or Baltic-sounding.

[djwaugust]

It sounds like some bastardized form of Spanish, Italian, French, German, English, and Russian

With that said, I LOVE IT!!! Mi amas esperanton!!!

[grail68]

@djwaugust haha well throw in hebrew too and that's essentially what it is :) Mi amas esperanton!

[oXxXxOxXxXo]

Zamenhof was from Poland, but Esperanto isnt only built of slavics sounds. He actually mixed many of europas languages. I am from Poland and I can tell U that Esperanto don t sounds like polish or russian...

[TheTubeful]

or slovak :P

[karolinahagegard]

"Until the dream becomes reality"!

or

"Until the dream comes true"

Why don't you just make a new versions with those few corrections suggested by people? It's a great video! :)

[funnyaccent]

Actually, I was just thinking about that a few days ago, and started working on it; it's been about a year and a half since I made it, and seeing it now, I have a lot of corrections myself. It should be up soon.

[karolinahagegard]

Bone! :) Mi antauxgxojas!

[puolalainen44]

La vero estas ke esperanto MALbezonas la himnon, la flagon ktp. Ili estas nur simboloj de la fermiteco de la esperanta parolantaro, ech de ghia siaspeca naciecismo. Esperanto bezonas ESTI UZATA en vera vivo. Ghi devus esti ILO, kaj ne celo. Bedaurinde oni tro ofte igas ghin nur objekto de stranga kulto kaj ghi uzighas nur interne de centoj da organizajhetoj esperantistaj. Bonvolu viziti interpopolalingvo punkto inf punkto hu, la retejo kiu al mi alportis vere grandan ekkomprenon.

[funnyaccent]

Mi tute akordas; "ilo, ne celo". Kvankam mi ne estas vere cirkauh-estinta multe da la, kiel vi nomis ghin, "stranga kulto", mi devas akordi, ke tio, kion mi estas jam vidinta estas tre stranga ja. Sed mi esperas, ke tiu strangeco estas vere ighanta per sole kelkaj esperantistoj, kaj ne chiuj da ni, espere.

[69UM24OSU12]

Mi tre sxatas la himno!

[BolleNDH]

el pullo esta animal très dvígati

tro bela! mehr from cette musika

[anglaismoyen]

europanto!!! wow... lol. is it europanto?

[aktivisti92]

no it is esperanto

[anglaismoyen]

i was talking to bolleNDH

[adaskabanosik]

:D BesACB pravas ;p Mi atentas novan muzikon.

[adaskabanosik]

Vortoj estas belaj sed muziko tro malbela; /

[funnyaccent]

jes -- vidu la komento de BesACB

[manoeliv]

belega LA ESPERO.

[soobajeaba]

mi ne parolas la esperanto. I speak English; hablo español; parlo un po d'italiano. Esperanto is amazing. I really like languages, like Esperanto or Linguo Ido or Interlingua... In fact I invented a languages myself. Ei mhukh thipèkèlh!!

[TheTubeful]

me to... o aprena lingo i o l´apele Nomo :)

[Destinokim]

Viva Esperanto!

[ilrizzus]

tutto ciò è abominevole

e non mi interessa se non capite l'italiano

è mostruoso che capiate l'esperanto!!! ahhh!!!

[nachol]

Tro bela! Mi estas tre emociia (?) pro cxi himno.

[BesACB]

Bedaurinde, la melodio ne estas tre interesa.

[funnyaccent]

Jes, mi scias. Chi tia muziko povas esti vidata kiel iome stranga, sed dauhrinde Zamenhof ne skribis la muzikon, sole la tre poetaj vortoj.

[sermoa]

Ĉi tiu kanto estas belega!! Kio mi podas trovi la vortoj en Esperanto, mi petas?

[sermoa]

Mi bedaŭras: *kie*, ne kio. Mi jam trovis la vortojn ĉe lernu.

[piscadil]

You know, this is truly amazing to me. I honestly didn't expect an anthem in Esperanto, and here it is. Amoro de la Esperantoj!

[jasmuz]

Mi amas "La Espero".

[zonbuk]

good job, thank you!

[Emiljajes]

dis-salti = (apart(spread)-jump) jump apart

per la sankta amo = by means of the sacred love

dis-batitaj - (apart-hit-past.tense.obj-plur­al) (were hit apart)

[ubentu]

Wow, it must be easy to rap and make poems in eperanto!

[L3X4R]

in deed its an awesome language theres songs and books in esperanto

[ILuvEire]

Well, especially because all nouns end in -o and all adjectives end in -a...so it's not hard to rhyme at all.

[alekcxjo]

Kunar pravegas...

[DJKunar]

Why didn't you consider to use the translation available at the Wikipedia (article "La_Espero")? In the days of the internet, it has become much easier to reuse material provided by others.

[Emiljajes]

That would take away the idea of using this to practice, though, wouldn't it? :p

[EnAliaVorto]

A couple of corrections for the translation:

- The two last lines of the second stanza should probably be

"But the stubborn barriers will jump apart

knocked over by the sacred love"

-

[EnAliaVorto]

(Too quick to hit post...)

- "language foundation" rather than "liguistic foundation" -- you don't have to be a linguist to speak Esperanto :)

- I think the last word could be better translated as "is realized" than "becomes effective".

Those are small quibbles, though :)