Part 02 - Esperanto is a language with many traits.

[vblings]

@AtraxTrh At first, I thought the same, but it convinced me that learning the language can be hard for everyone if that happens. I'm Korean and I'm learning Esperanto myself. But, I don't think it is hard to learn.

[AtraxTrh]

esperanto comes from europe, that means europeans will learn it easier than asians right? so much for the international language... one should involve languages from all around the world when creating a language... try again!

[ascartec]

It sounds and even the name of it seems Spanish. How the balls is that nuetral? What if who your talking too hates Mexicans? It could get you killed!!!

[AleviAsker]

I would like to learn Esperanto. It's a very easy language. I hope I can speak it after a few months. Greetings from Turkey!

[larstheu]

I like Esperanto. i had considered learning it before - now i really want to learn it.

Where do i find: learning material, software that aids in pronaunciation - and writting Esparanto, and of course a dictionary - my native language is danish?

Thanks in advance to anyone who are posting links.

[gijzzzdude]

I like the language and the idea, but it's not useful at all for things like 'science' (I saw it in another video). The language of science nowadays is English. I'm not saying that this can't change, but at the moment, Esperante is useless for science.

[mechatech70]

@gijzzzdude Esperanto was not designed to be used in Science. It is used, first, as a stepping stone to learn other languages (once you learn a language, the brain becomes accustomed to language learning), and two, as a way to meet interesting people. If a scientific document is in English, and one man speaks english & Esp. and the other speaks chinese & esp., then the english man can translate the scientific document into Esperanto for the chinese man. A little out there, but you get my drift.

[Pingijno]

Is it a commercial of Esperanto?

[Esperantoestas]

@msms47 Well, It's not!

[mechatech70]

@msms47 Why? Many words in every language end in o. Polo. Pollo. No. Row (sound, not letter), toe (sound again), etc. It is a common ending.

[cedricalien]

this is the first time I heard of esperanto.

[CivilizedMan444]

…Is Esperonto a Defined Language? Or just another undefined vernacular whose word meaning requires reference to the words of another undefined vernacular like English or Spanish, as your video suggests?

... Or does Esperonto have a DEFINARY of words that fully define all abstract human concepts itself? Like God, Devil, Love, Marriage, Calendar, Religion, Law, Sin, Perversion, Degeneracy, Bastard, Normal, Freak, Crime, Justice, Right and Wrong, Good and Evil?

[MrDanteaguilar]

@CivilizedMan444 It does have a word for everything. It's not like it's some nerdy ass dialect such as clingon or chewbacca lol. 

[ElijahGreenThumb]

@MrDanteaguilar lmao.

[MrDanteaguilar]

@ElijahGreenThumb And I mean EVERYTHING. Including curse words.

[thisusernameistaken2]

@CivilizedMan444 It's a defined language with all of those concepts.

[emzademon]

Esperanto sounds better than English

[MrDanteaguilar]

@emzademon And it's much easier too. 

[JohnPersonage]

Sounds and looks like Spanish to me.

[emzademon]

@JohnPersonage is based in Latin the mother language of Spanish, Portuguese, French,Romanian,Italian and more.

[TheJozuki]

@JohnPersonage cause ur dumb

[JohnPersonage]

@TheJozuki "you're" or "you are" not "ur".. :P and it's "because" not "cause" :P... lol..... jeez everyone takes everything so bloomin serious round here...

[thisusernameistaken2]

@JohnPersonage it's "seriously" not "serious"

[JohnPersonage]

@thisusernameistaken2 lol... that's the spirit :)

[catadeluxe]

wow, 7:22 !!! I didn't knew that Maniac Mansion deluxe had Esperanto!!! i'm gonna check it right away!

[MrBrandini]

Esperanto is an easy, and beautiful language. I am learning it quicker than any other language I have learned.

[HailCthulhu]

Easier? Hardly. It wouldn't have mandatory inflections.

Politically neutral AND international is an oxymoron.

There is nothing to be said about being able to use it while traveling that hasn't already been outdone by any number of languages.

[CadjinGisclair]

@HailCthulhu

I think their point is that Espéranto is the most centralized language in Europe. I'd imagine that having a knowledge of Espéranto would make it easier to understand other languages while traveling around Europe.

[HailCthulhu]

That kind of falls short of international, doesn't it?

I don't know what definition of "centralized" you're using, but it remains there are a magnitude of lingua francas already available and already spoken in greater numbers. Yet another one is not needed.

It remains not being the magically "easiest" language, and it remains an oxymoron which Esperanto can't even aspire to be thanks to it's Eastern European heritage.

[Moose6960]

@HailCthulhu "A Swede who speaks English with a Korean and a Brazilian feels that he is a Swede who is using English; he does not assume a special identity as 'a speaker of English.' On the other hand, a Swede who speaks Esperanto with a Korean and a Brazilian feels that he is an Esperantist and that the other two are also Esperantists, and that the three of them belong to a special cultural group." -Claude Piron

This is what makes Esperanto unique.

[HailCthulhu]

@Moose6960 The cultist attitude? Nah, plenty of other IALs got that too.

[muiebozgorilor]

@Moose6960

lol, what a load of crap.

esperanto will still be a secondary language for him, so he will feel like a swede who is using esperanto, the same would go for the korean and brazilian.

I've listened to alot of videos using esperanto also read some articles in esperanto. I'm a romanian and the language annoys me deeply, I don't want to hear it ever again. It may sound good or exotic to non-latininized language speakers, but to a latin-based language speakers it sounds bad, unharmonized

[hadassah27]

I just started learning Esperanto and so far it's really fun. It's EASY, too! One lesson and I already know how to make present, past and future verbs. Oh, at around :50 the word for Hebrew is written backwards!

[GeneralTrue]

the name esperanto sounds spanish.also i dislike this langauge.i only speak dutch and english but i would not want to add this to my list