Esse aí tem sorte, tá aprendendo desde o berço, o que torna bem mais fácil! - Tiu bebo havas fortunon, li lernas ekde infano, kio fariĝis tute treege facila!
Wow, this is so cute! I only found out about Esperanto today, now I'm looking for videos that could help me learn some basic stuff. I speak English and Korean, and I learn French and German at school.
- Easier (and REAL) communication with people from all around the world, a better understanding of other cultures and differences between people, more tolerance towards difference, enrichment through multiple points of view.
- Easier learning of other languages.
- A lot of friends.
- A lot of good moments. (At Esperanto meetings I feel like we're one big family.)
@LoveConnieAndTH Thanks for your reply but don't you get all those benefits and more by learning an established language? Surely you would learn more about other cultures by learning other cultures' languages. It's a great idea to learn another language but I just think esperanto is a white elephant it will never become mainstream, you're the first person I've ever "met" who can speak it.
Esperanto is useful for people who have never studied another foreign language. For example, there was a study of English-speakers learning French who were split into two groups. One group studied French for four years, and the other studied Esperanto for one and French for the remaining three. The latter group had better mastery of French at the end. The results were repeated (though the target language was always Indo-european).
@Escuerd That's interesting but it stands to reason that if the group studied Spanish for a year (instead of esperanto) then French for a further 3 years then they would also speak better French and have a grounding in another useful language. I think it's great to learn languages but I feel that esperanto will never become mainstream. But hey, learning is always a positive thing, take care.
I do not think it stands to reason that a class taking 1 yr Spanish + 3 yrs French would outperform one taking 4 yrs French.
It doesn't stand to reason for Esperanto either, but empirically seems to be the case. The favored explanation is that becoming functionally proficient in a 2nd language provides benefits in learning subsequent languages above and beyond having more similarities to draw from.
Because it is easy, E-o lowers the barrier more than Spanish would.
@gedupawadat I wanted to link to more on info it, but didn't realize YouTube disabled links. There's a fair amount written online about this propadeutic effect.
I would, though, like to see whether this has ever been compared to something like your suggestion (e.g. 1 yr Spanish/other natural language + 3 yrs French).
My guess would be that students who simply studied the target language longer would do better, but then, I'd have thought the same for E-o and would have been wrong.
@gedupawadat I learned Esperanto when I was a kid (my father speaks it and I wanted to impress my friends by speaking another language, so he taught it to me) and when I went into Spanish in school, it was amazingly easy, because I understood the concepts. If I had just spoken English, I would not have understood things like subjunctive tense, and I think that when the brain gets used to sorting things into two languages, it makes learning vocab easier. The more you do, the more you can do.
At the very least, I think that this demonstrates that time spent learning Esperanto doesn't take valuable time away from learning other foreign languages. It often actually facilitates them.
Even if it did not, people learn languages for lots of different reasons (not always pragmatic). Many people find the study of language enjoyable enough to be an end in itself, and Esperanto can be just as enjoyable to learn as a natural language, "mainstream" or not..
@gedupawadat I know you can learn more about cultures by learning those cultures' languages, but when you don't speak those languages well, it's hard to communicate. Esperanto is easy to learn so you can quickly have a high leven of understanding and communication. It also makes learning of other languages easier. I see it this way : you can learn many languages but choosing Esperanto as one of them benefits you and doesn't take much effort. It doesn't necessarily have to be (...)
@gedupawadat (...) mainstream. True that a lot of people who meet me tell me this (you're the first person I know who speaks Esperanto), but if you look at the comments on this video, there is a lot of Esperanto.More people speak it than Irish. That is a fact and I'd estimate the number of speakers to at least ten thousand, maybe a hundred thousand (or more, actually it's very hard to calculate). There are about a thousand native speakers (I'm one of them) =)
@LoveConnieAndTH According to the quick bit of internet research I've done there are between 40,000 and 80,000 native Irish speakers in the republic of Ireland alone and approximately 2,000 native Esperanto speakers worldwide so I'm afraid you're figures are hopelessly wrong on that score. I speak English, Irish, German and Spanish so I'm all for learning languages but I still haven't heard a proper reason that would justify learning Esperanto. Who would i speak it to?
@gedupawadat Read carefully : I didn't talk about native speakers but about speakers, and the numbers for Esperanto speakers, which I got wrong, are estimated at least 200 thousand, of which two thousand natives as you say. For Irish I don't think you could add a lot more to the figures you gave, because very few learn it as a foreign language. So maybe there are as many Irish as Esperanto speakers but not more.
You could speak it to people in Esperanto meetings, (...)
@gedupawadat (...) and I already gave some reasons for learning it. I understand you don't see the point of learning it, I just felt I needed to defend the language because it's important to me - not only it represents my worldwide "family" and the happiest parts of the year, I also wouldn't have been born without it :P. But it's great you are for learning languages and can speak 4 of which 3 are extremely useful.
@LoveConnieAndTH You're wrong again I'm afraid " According to the latest census, the Irish language ranks 66th out of the 322 languages spoken today in the U.S., with over 25,000 speakers. New York State has the most Irish Gaelic speakers, and Massachusetts the highest percentage, of the 50 states.[44] Daltaí na Gaeilge, a nonprofit Gaelic language advocacy group based in Elberon, New Jersey, estimated that about 30,000 speak the language as of 2006". Do you still think Irish is useless?
@gedupawadat Did I ever say Irish was useless ? =) I was only saying there were more Esperanto than Irish speakers around the world - my father always answers that when I ask him "how many Esperanto speakers are there again ?" or else he says "usually we say between two hundred thousand and two million" (I think a million is already quite exagerated). But anyway, I don't think there's a point in fighting with numbers. Both languages can be useful in their own way.
@LoveConnieAndTH But there aren't more esperanto speakers in the world than Irish speakers, not by a long, long shot. The numbers you quoted were ridiculously incorrect (just saying). I'm sure my grounding in Irish helped me learn other languages similar to the way Esperanto would help one learn a second language but that's about the only benefit I can see to learning Esperanto. Thanks for the chat though, it was interesting. Goodbye and take care
@gedupawadat I think I shouldn't have started with numbers (what's incorrect ? 200,000 speakers and a thousand or more natives is also what Wikipedia says.) My main arguments are never about numbers - people who want to learn Esperanto don't care about numbers most of the time while you seem to give more importance to those numbers than to the rest I said, so it's clear I won't convince you :P. Yes, it was an interesting chat, bye. :)
@tekerirem Why would you learn it only if it was widespread ? The more people speak it, the more widespread it will be. You can be one of those people. :P
tre tre aminda kaj bela infano! kuragxigite de la filmeto, mi intencas ekpene paroli esperante kun mia bebino agxanta 1 jarojn kaj 8 monatojn! mojose!
The baby is incredibly cute, but every kid can learn it's native language with ease. No matter how complicated it may look for people (especially for English antive speakers, been his language so poor in syntax and morphology), we all can learn any language. I'm looking forward to learn Esperanto!
@shamanigetzemani I completely agree with you ! This boy is actually just an ordinary kid - any child can learn languages very easily if it's from birth on. I can attest it ; I'm native in four different languages (Dutch, French, Hungarian and Esperanto) and I have learned German and English at school (well, still am learning actually, I'm in my last year). People sometimes think I am particularly intelligent, but this has got nothing to do with intelligence. It's luck.
@darkcyan Has won in your country that as no culture or history...now in the rest of the world nobory speak english and many simple can because is dificult to learn and many more dont wont to learn or refuse to speake because is a foreign language imposse to them by american imperialism...Esperanto is neutral dont belong to any country respecting all cultures and nations and is simple and pratique to learn are ou european,asian,african or american!
Yes, but this is a kind of imperialism from the americans and englishs. Esperanto isn't the language from any country. I don't see why english should be the international language.
@EscapedFromHell22 I completely agree. I was born in the US and I don't believe English on an efficiency level should be the international language. Viva la lingvo internacia !!
bone farita! mi gratulas la gepatroj! mi estus dezirinta ke mia familio instruis/lernigis al mi esperanton dum mia infaneco... mi nun scius 50% pli ol franca, 45% pli por la angla, kaj 30% pli por la germana lingvo... sed neniam malfruas por lerni esperanton... mi ekkomencis 4 monatoj antaŭe! :D
@feverfresh Mi havas ok tagoj kiu mi aprendas la lingvo internacia. Gxiu estas tre facile.
By the way, via filo estas tre tre beleta :D.
It's a very easy language to learn. I've been learning it for only 8 days and I'm flying through its. It's by far the easiest language I have encountered, and I'm fluent in English, Spanish. Took 3 years of French, and over 6 months of Chinese (Mandarin) study (College course and external self-help).
@feverfresh but this language sounds like spanish and !!!! it DOES !! and its almost ends with o ... wish is lame >.> it should have been something new !
@msms47 That's not how spanish sounds like, Believe me I'm a spanish native speaker and esperanto is as similar to spanish as it is to english, it has some similar words like umbiliko to ombligo but you gotta admit the resemblanse between kiss and kisi.
every noun ends with "o" cause it's supoused to be easy to learn, that's not lame at all you troll.
@feverfresh It is my understanding that it is more benificial for a child to learn another language, for it is much easier for a young child to learn something like spanish or french than esperanto, it is easier for adults to learn esperanto!
@SchwarzerMannn I don't think this video proves that Esperanto is easy to learn. Kids are language sponges; they can pick up all of those words from !Kung, for example, if they were put into the correct setting.
@SchwarzerMannn I have studied Esperanto for about 2 months, like one hour per week, and I already know a lot of things, it's so easy to learn it!! YOU SHOULD TRY =)
It's surprising how many people posting comments here misunderstand language acquisition in children. To an infant, all languages are of equal difficulty, they can learn any language. Bilingualism and multilingualism aid in the learning of other languages later in life because with each language the mind cements the neural pathways used to acquire language. That's opposed to adults who grew up monolingual and learn languages: ease of learning is based on similarity to their native language.
@cryozo Actually, it is pretty spread out. It is popular in China and Japan, and many people in Europe speak the language. There are conferences every year. :)
@berlingoski "native speaker" simply means to be brought up with a language from birth, not necessarily to be born in a land where this language is spoken. In Esperanto itself the "native speakers" are more correctly called "denaskaj parolantoj", that means "from-birth speakers".
@berlingoski That's not actually true. They are called "denaskoj" (from birth) and it is estimated that there are about 1000-3000 people who learned to speak Esperanto since they were <5. Look up George Sorros, if you don't believe me. His last name is the Esperanto for 'will soar" and his first language was Esperanto. In fact, I hope that my children will be denaskoj.
Mi tute kongratulas la patron de Bebo pro laboro. La rezulto ĉi tie videbla venas el laboro de la patro (kaj patrino?). Unue eble Bebo ne parolos angle tiel rapide kiel siaj geamikoj, sed baldaŭ li povos paroli kaj angle kaj esperante sen problemoj. Mi tute volus scii pri Bebo kiam li aĝas kaj parolas pri la perfekta logiko de esperanto kontraŭ la tute ne perfekta logiko de la aliaj lingvoj. Danko, feverfresh.
@ArminiusRO no hablés mierdas que no sabés HDP, te entendí perfectamente lo que quisiste decir, c*r*t* de m**rd*!!! I speak english kaj esperanton, sunt de învățare română и русский язык.
Children learn languages because of their need to communicate with their parents. The best way to do it, is to have one parent speak to the child in only one language and the other speak in solely another. If the child mixes up a word, correct them. By around the age of three, they should be bale to differentiate between the languages.
you are absolutely right,my father is romanian and my mother is hungarian,they talked to me when i was little in both languages.novadays i speak mostly romanian but i understand hungarian very well and i can talk in hungarian whenever i have too.
Vi distingas. Ekzemple, patro parolas Esperante, patrino parolas angle. Aŭ, gepatroj parolas Esperanton Lunde, la angla Marde, Esperanto Merkrede, ktp. La infanoj ne konfuziĝas. Ĝuste kiel ni, ili enmetas la lingvojn en apartaj partoj de la cerboj.
@homestarfan2008 Fakte, psiĥologoj nun pensas ke infanoj kiuj parolas du lingvojn havas pli fortajn lingvajn kapablecojn (en ambaŭ lingvoj) ol infanoj kiuj parolas nur unu.
@homestarfan2008 Ne. Angla estas feko. Multa popolo lernas plurajn lingvojn de infanaĵo, en eksterlandoj for de Usono kaj Anglujo. La Hebreo lernas Jidon kaj Anglan, en Usono.
This debate about advantege or not for using Esperanto as a native language is ridiculous. It's obvious that the Parents will not let to teach their mother language to the child. Besides, we have also to consider the aquiring of the spirit of the language. For me, this is the most important point of the learning/teaching process.
Because Esperanto is easy to learn as an adult, knowing it from a young age doesn't really give anyone an advantage. If someone teaches a child Esperanto but not their local language, then they're doing it wrong,
That's really true, with only 16 grammar rules, no average adult would have problems learning Esperanto. Also I learnt Esperanto in only 1 week not in "years of effort" like the 8 years it has taken for me to learn English and still not be fluent.
Also, being Esperanto a no national language, and not being taught in any public school those children won't have any advantage over anyone when it comes to speak Esperanto.
@feverfresh absolutely, and there's a school of thought that the more complicated your first language is the easier it is for you to pick up a second one.
For example if your first language is something like German with 4 cases (or Polish with 6!)and you have to learn something like English with no cases then it's a walk in the park for you right up untill about a B1/B2 level. But if your first language is English then getting your head around cases is so hard that you struggel from the start
@feverfresh And if I, living in Norway, teaches my child Icelandic I am doing it harm? Iceland is where I was born and brought up, and if Esperanto happens to be someone's culture - why not teach your kid? Easy little language, nothing as hard as English which is incredibly easy...
Come on! Let the kid have the advantage of at least not being brought up thinking English is the only language in the world!
@feverfresh Yes, but sometimes couples are formed through esperanto associations and they dont a share a language besides esperanto, so they speak it at home and children learn it as a mother language. However they never have poblems learning also de local language
@feverfresh your wrong. esperanto may be an international auxiliary language but according to Wikipedia There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a superior foundation for learning languages in general, and some primary schools teach it as preparation for learning other foreign languages. cause wikipedia is reliable!
Sorry to press the issue, but i am actually looking for a response here. This is from the first principle of the Prague manifesto:
"Any system of communication which confers lifelong privileges on some while requiring others to devote years of effort to achieving a lesser degree of competence is fundamentally antidemocratic."
"Dr. L.L. Zamenhof ...proposed Esperanto as a second language that would allow people who speak different native languages to communicate, yet at the same time retain their own languages and cultural identities."
In response to Bjokac, the denaskuloj that you met simply cannot be the native speakers they claim to be if they speak it so poorly. Either you speak it or you don't.
Firstly, i think it is completely ignorant to vote my comment down for asking a legitimate question that has plagued me since I began learning Esperanto. Secondly I offer 2 quotes to support my reasoning for asking this question that come directly from the Esperanto USA website:
"Esperanto doesn't replace anyone's language but simply serves as a common second language."
It appears that the native Esperanto speakers have a very average level of speaking, I know some of of them who are much poorer speakers than anybody learning seriously for one year.
Fair question. My wife and I are expecting our third child any day now; I plan to teach her Esperanto. I expect she also will learn English, given that it's our first tongue,
So why Esperanto? Because it's easy to learn, and speaking one second language is a tremendous boost to learning others. Because it's a hobby I enjoy, and I enjoy sharing my interests with my children. And of course, because it's a language not many people speak, which means my children and I can have privacy in public.
this is such a cute child i just had a terrible day and don't speak esperanto but this video made me feel so much better, thank you (dankon)
69kokakola 2 days ago
Li estas tre inteligenta!
mechatech70 6 days ago
cute baby
69kokakola 1 week ago
Li estas bela <3
helloiamesa 2 months ago
Inteligentan infanon.
mechatech70 2 months ago
@mechatech70 Inteligenta infano - vi ne bezonas akuzativon :)
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
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mechatech70 2 months ago
Kial iu ajn malŝatus ĉi tiun videaĵon?
WilhelmDrake 3 months ago
That kid has got to be the most awesome baby in history.
twohats829 3 months ago 2
@twohats829 Go to Esperanto meetings and you'll see those babies everywhere :D
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
These little primates, they're so smart!!!
MrBeiragua 3 months ago 2
woww.. just by knowing english, spanish, and portuguese I understood all of it. Russian didn't help at all.. :D
MrLuisc7 4 months ago 3
@MrLuisc7 Oh yes it does. There's plenty of Slavic in EO as well ;-) . Lernu la lingvo, amiko mia, kaj vi vidos.
RobMacKendrick 4 weeks ago
@RobMacKendrick lingvoN ;)
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
@LoveConnieAndTH Aie! Mi ĉiam forgesas la akuzitivo! ;-)
RobMacKendrick 2 weeks ago
@RobMacKendrick "La akuzativoN" xD
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
Esse aí tem sorte, tá aprendendo desde o berço, o que torna bem mais fácil! - Tiu bebo havas fortunon, li lernas ekde infano, kio fariĝis tute treege facila!
flipeicl 4 months ago
vivu #esperanto !
cicciontek 4 months ago
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cicciontek 4 months ago
Ĉu esperanto estas lia gepatra lingvo? :O
sjaf3 4 months ago 2
@sjaf3 Vershajne jes ! Li estas denaska. Estas proksimume mil denaskaj infanoj en la mondo.
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
que lindo bebe, como me gustaria aprender a hablar esperanto
what a cute baby, i would like to learn esperanto
22pompe 5 months ago
tre bela...
chtaesok 5 months ago
Wow, this is so cute! I only found out about Esperanto today, now I'm looking for videos that could help me learn some basic stuff. I speak English and Korean, and I learn French and German at school.
GoodbyeCesky 5 months ago
@GoodbyeCesky Great ! I strongly encourage you to learn Esperanto. It gives you a lot of advantages and good moments.
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
@LoveConnieAndTH Please explain to me what advantages speaking esperanto could possibly bring.
gedupawadat 2 weeks ago
@gedupawadat I would be very pleased to.
- Easier (and REAL) communication with people from all around the world, a better understanding of other cultures and differences between people, more tolerance towards difference, enrichment through multiple points of view.
- Easier learning of other languages.
- A lot of friends.
- A lot of good moments. (At Esperanto meetings I feel like we're one big family.)
- Free hosting when abroad.
I hope this helped.
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
@LoveConnieAndTH Thanks for your reply but don't you get all those benefits and more by learning an established language? Surely you would learn more about other cultures by learning other cultures' languages. It's a great idea to learn another language but I just think esperanto is a white elephant it will never become mainstream, you're the first person I've ever "met" who can speak it.
gedupawadat 2 weeks ago
@gedupawadat
Esperanto is useful for people who have never studied another foreign language. For example, there was a study of English-speakers learning French who were split into two groups. One group studied French for four years, and the other studied Esperanto for one and French for the remaining three. The latter group had better mastery of French at the end. The results were repeated (though the target language was always Indo-european).
E.g. google "propaedeutic effect".
Escuerd 1 week ago
@Escuerd That's interesting but it stands to reason that if the group studied Spanish for a year (instead of esperanto) then French for a further 3 years then they would also speak better French and have a grounding in another useful language. I think it's great to learn languages but I feel that esperanto will never become mainstream. But hey, learning is always a positive thing, take care.
gedupawadat 1 week ago
@gedupawadat
I do not think it stands to reason that a class taking 1 yr Spanish + 3 yrs French would outperform one taking 4 yrs French.
It doesn't stand to reason for Esperanto either, but empirically seems to be the case. The favored explanation is that becoming functionally proficient in a 2nd language provides benefits in learning subsequent languages above and beyond having more similarities to draw from.
Because it is easy, E-o lowers the barrier more than Spanish would.
Escuerd 1 week ago
@gedupawadat I wanted to link to more on info it, but didn't realize YouTube disabled links. There's a fair amount written online about this propadeutic effect.
I would, though, like to see whether this has ever been compared to something like your suggestion (e.g. 1 yr Spanish/other natural language + 3 yrs French).
My guess would be that students who simply studied the target language longer would do better, but then, I'd have thought the same for E-o and would have been wrong.
Escuerd 1 week ago
@Escuerd *propaedeutic
Escuerd 1 week ago
@gedupawadat I learned Esperanto when I was a kid (my father speaks it and I wanted to impress my friends by speaking another language, so he taught it to me) and when I went into Spanish in school, it was amazingly easy, because I understood the concepts. If I had just spoken English, I would not have understood things like subjunctive tense, and I think that when the brain gets used to sorting things into two languages, it makes learning vocab easier. The more you do, the more you can do.
mechatech70 6 days ago
@gedupawadat
At the very least, I think that this demonstrates that time spent learning Esperanto doesn't take valuable time away from learning other foreign languages. It often actually facilitates them.
Even if it did not, people learn languages for lots of different reasons (not always pragmatic). Many people find the study of language enjoyable enough to be an end in itself, and Esperanto can be just as enjoyable to learn as a natural language, "mainstream" or not..
Escuerd 1 week ago
@gedupawadat I know you can learn more about cultures by learning those cultures' languages, but when you don't speak those languages well, it's hard to communicate. Esperanto is easy to learn so you can quickly have a high leven of understanding and communication. It also makes learning of other languages easier. I see it this way : you can learn many languages but choosing Esperanto as one of them benefits you and doesn't take much effort. It doesn't necessarily have to be (...)
LoveConnieAndTH 5 days ago
@gedupawadat (...) mainstream. True that a lot of people who meet me tell me this (you're the first person I know who speaks Esperanto), but if you look at the comments on this video, there is a lot of Esperanto.More people speak it than Irish. That is a fact and I'd estimate the number of speakers to at least ten thousand, maybe a hundred thousand (or more, actually it's very hard to calculate). There are about a thousand native speakers (I'm one of them) =)
LoveConnieAndTH 5 days ago
@LoveConnieAndTH According to the quick bit of internet research I've done there are between 40,000 and 80,000 native Irish speakers in the republic of Ireland alone and approximately 2,000 native Esperanto speakers worldwide so I'm afraid you're figures are hopelessly wrong on that score. I speak English, Irish, German and Spanish so I'm all for learning languages but I still haven't heard a proper reason that would justify learning Esperanto. Who would i speak it to?
gedupawadat 5 days ago
@gedupawadat Read carefully : I didn't talk about native speakers but about speakers, and the numbers for Esperanto speakers, which I got wrong, are estimated at least 200 thousand, of which two thousand natives as you say. For Irish I don't think you could add a lot more to the figures you gave, because very few learn it as a foreign language. So maybe there are as many Irish as Esperanto speakers but not more.
You could speak it to people in Esperanto meetings, (...)
LoveConnieAndTH 4 days ago
@gedupawadat (...) and I already gave some reasons for learning it. I understand you don't see the point of learning it, I just felt I needed to defend the language because it's important to me - not only it represents my worldwide "family" and the happiest parts of the year, I also wouldn't have been born without it :P. But it's great you are for learning languages and can speak 4 of which 3 are extremely useful.
LoveConnieAndTH 4 days ago
@LoveConnieAndTH You're wrong again I'm afraid " According to the latest census, the Irish language ranks 66th out of the 322 languages spoken today in the U.S., with over 25,000 speakers. New York State has the most Irish Gaelic speakers, and Massachusetts the highest percentage, of the 50 states.[44] Daltaí na Gaeilge, a nonprofit Gaelic language advocacy group based in Elberon, New Jersey, estimated that about 30,000 speak the language as of 2006". Do you still think Irish is useless?
gedupawadat 4 days ago
@gedupawadat Did I ever say Irish was useless ? =) I was only saying there were more Esperanto than Irish speakers around the world - my father always answers that when I ask him "how many Esperanto speakers are there again ?" or else he says "usually we say between two hundred thousand and two million" (I think a million is already quite exagerated). But anyway, I don't think there's a point in fighting with numbers. Both languages can be useful in their own way.
LoveConnieAndTH 4 days ago
@LoveConnieAndTH But there aren't more esperanto speakers in the world than Irish speakers, not by a long, long shot. The numbers you quoted were ridiculously incorrect (just saying). I'm sure my grounding in Irish helped me learn other languages similar to the way Esperanto would help one learn a second language but that's about the only benefit I can see to learning Esperanto. Thanks for the chat though, it was interesting. Goodbye and take care
gedupawadat 4 days ago
@gedupawadat I think I shouldn't have started with numbers (what's incorrect ? 200,000 speakers and a thousand or more natives is also what Wikipedia says.) My main arguments are never about numbers - people who want to learn Esperanto don't care about numbers most of the time while you seem to give more importance to those numbers than to the rest I said, so it's clear I won't convince you :P. Yes, it was an interesting chat, bye. :)
LoveConnieAndTH 2 days ago
I wish it were a widespread language then I would learn it, I already speak spanish XD
tekerirem 5 months ago
@tekerirem Why would you learn it only if it was widespread ? The more people speak it, the more widespread it will be. You can be one of those people. :P
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
lol this makes a great educational exercise
pyromaniac344 6 months ago
LI NE HAVAS UMBILIKO!!!
OraculoSabeTudo 6 months ago
Quien sera esos ocho que no les enternecen ese bebé?
julin89 6 months ago
Wonderful idea to teach him it =DDDD
PKFlaith 6 months ago
Tan lindo ese bebe!!
julin89 6 months ago
So cute
DoodiePunk 6 months ago
@Aibyochan cute is ĉarma in Esperanto
Behdin 6 months ago
HE HAS NO BELLYBUTTON!
GizzleRiot 7 months ago
@GizzleRiot His waistband is covering it. He moved on before he could find it.
Zervic 7 months ago
tre tre aminda kaj bela infano! kuragxigite de la filmeto, mi intencas ekpene paroli esperante kun mia bebino agxanta 1 jarojn kaj 8 monatojn! mojose!
longlongzhang 7 months ago
Aww, that's really cute :) Esperanto's a pretty cool language, I wish someone had taught me it as a kid.
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Tio estas tre beleta :) E-o estas tre interesa lingvo, kaj mi volas, ke iu instruis la lingvon al mi, kiam mi estis infano.
MCVenomOS 8 months ago
The baby is incredibly cute, but every kid can learn it's native language with ease. No matter how complicated it may look for people (especially for English antive speakers, been his language so poor in syntax and morphology), we all can learn any language. I'm looking forward to learn Esperanto!
shamanigetzemani 8 months ago
@shamanigetzemani I completely agree with you ! This boy is actually just an ordinary kid - any child can learn languages very easily if it's from birth on. I can attest it ; I'm native in four different languages (Dutch, French, Hungarian and Esperanto) and I have learned German and English at school (well, still am learning actually, I'm in my last year). People sometimes think I am particularly intelligent, but this has got nothing to do with intelligence. It's luck.
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
@shamanigetzemani And by the way I strongly encourage you to learn Esperanto. I'm sure you will love what it can bring you !
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
Versxajne hodiaux li parolas jam perfekte.
Inspektisto 8 months ago
Li estas tre bela kaj inteligenta knabo!
anaandribeiro 9 months ago 4
Oh my, that's so precious!!!
sofiankrt 9 months ago
Mi petas daurigi la prezentadon. Ja bebo farighas knabo... kiel evoluas lia Esperanto?
NI1954 10 months ago
mi vidis kvin fojoj cxi tiun. tre adorinda!
10centwings 10 months ago
Esperanto is about as useful as Latin.... English has won, accept it.
darkcyan 10 months ago
@darkcyan Has won in your country that as no culture or history...now in the rest of the world nobory speak english and many simple can because is dificult to learn and many more dont wont to learn or refuse to speake because is a foreign language imposse to them by american imperialism...Esperanto is neutral dont belong to any country respecting all cultures and nations and is simple and pratique to learn are ou european,asian,african or american!
ML678v 10 months ago
@darkcyan
Yes, but this is a kind of imperialism from the americans and englishs. Esperanto isn't the language from any country. I don't see why english should be the international language.
EscapedFromHell22 9 months ago 2
@EscapedFromHell22 I completely agree. I was born in the US and I don't believe English on an efficiency level should be the international language. Viva la lingvo internacia !!
FearedBliss 9 months ago 2
@FearedBliss It is "Vivu" not "viva" :)
LoveConnieAndTH 2 weeks ago
Mojosa, mi sxatas cxi tion.
Todeskaefer 11 months ago
que lindo!
vprez0 11 months ago
bone farita! mi gratulas la gepatroj! mi estus dezirinta ke mia familio instruis/lernigis al mi esperanton dum mia infaneco... mi nun scius 50% pli ol franca, 45% pli por la angla, kaj 30% pli por la germana lingvo... sed neniam malfruas por lerni esperanton... mi ekkomencis 4 monatoj antaŭe! :D
alejandro31192 1 year ago
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alejandro31192 1 year ago
ha great video
BaddestJournalism 1 year ago
Bebezinho falando em Esperanto. Ele é a coisa mais linda do mundo! (Bebeto parolas Esperante. Li estas la "iu" plej bela de la mondo!)
SalemBenoit 1 year ago
Li estas tre belega!!!!
SalemBenoit 1 year ago
cutest kid I've ever seen
eden28s 1 year ago
què lindo bebè, hablarà esperanto cuando grande?
lwdwig 1 year ago
is this language really that easy to learn?
SchwarzerMannn 1 year ago 18
@SchwarzerMannn compared to ethnic languages, yes, without a doubt.
feverfresh 1 year ago 26
@feverfresh Mi havas ok tagoj kiu mi aprendas la lingvo internacia. Gxiu estas tre facile.
By the way, via filo estas tre tre beleta :D.
It's a very easy language to learn. I've been learning it for only 8 days and I'm flying through its. It's by far the easiest language I have encountered, and I'm fluent in English, Spanish. Took 3 years of French, and over 6 months of Chinese (Mandarin) study (College course and external self-help).
FearedBliss 9 months ago
@FearedBliss Ooops.. ne aprendas... lernas* haha. Too much Spanish/French influence. Gxis !
FearedBliss 9 months ago
@feverfresh Even compared to english is extremely easy.
elcuchitrildorado 8 months ago
@feverfresh but this language sounds like spanish and !!!! it DOES !! and its almost ends with o ... wish is lame >.> it should have been something new !
msms47 7 months ago
@msms47 That's not how spanish sounds like, Believe me I'm a spanish native speaker and esperanto is as similar to spanish as it is to english, it has some similar words like umbiliko to ombligo but you gotta admit the resemblanse between kiss and kisi.
every noun ends with "o" cause it's supoused to be easy to learn, that's not lame at all you troll.
alejo19948 6 months ago
@feverfresh It is my understanding that it is more benificial for a child to learn another language, for it is much easier for a young child to learn something like spanish or french than esperanto, it is easier for adults to learn esperanto!
SlyHeist 3 weeks ago
@SchwarzerMannn I don't think this video proves that Esperanto is easy to learn. Kids are language sponges; they can pick up all of those words from !Kung, for example, if they were put into the correct setting.
kloiten 10 months ago
@SchwarzerMannn Yes, compared to other languages it's quite easy. :)
Geshem1983 8 months ago
@SchwarzerMannn I have studied Esperanto for about 2 months, like one hour per week, and I already know a lot of things, it's so easy to learn it!! YOU SHOULD TRY =)
B3ingMyself 3 months ago 2
@B3ingMyself Esperanto estas bona lingvo! Kion vi povas diri esperante?
phr4nk3rd00d13 1 month ago
Beleta bebo!
Ballentinnes 1 year ago
Tre cxarma bebo!! Tio filmeto cxiam kauxzas min rideti. Li parolas bonege! Instrui beboj paroli aliaj lingvoj estas cxiam bona.
Gratulon al bebo Cooper kaj gepatroj!
queerpriestess 1 year ago
la unua komentario legitima ke oni povas doni al tia video estas:
"^____^ oooooooooooooooooh, kia aminda beboooooo ^______^"
Psittakos2 1 year ago 2
Que lindo!
odetteabordadagua 1 year ago
Ĉi tiu bebo estas geniulo! =D
Bonege!
MrFabinhoMonteiro 1 year ago
Ĉarmega! :D
Volatile314 1 year ago
OMG what a freakin cute baby XP!
sebastienaction 1 year ago
It's surprising how many people posting comments here misunderstand language acquisition in children. To an infant, all languages are of equal difficulty, they can learn any language. Bilingualism and multilingualism aid in the learning of other languages later in life because with each language the mind cements the neural pathways used to acquire language. That's opposed to adults who grew up monolingual and learn languages: ease of learning is based on similarity to their native language.
Valicore 1 year ago 6
Saluton el Brazilo!
Tre interesa via video!
Kupero estas ĉarma bebo kaj li parolas tre bone Esperanton!
Gratulon al la gepatroj. Instrui lingvon al oniaj gefiloj tiom frue estas bonege!
Gofzamen 1 year ago
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *-*
pdarkcarla 1 year ago
this kid is adorable! try to keep the espreranto up as long as possible!
torchonrouge 1 year ago
WOW This is awesome!!! I would have liked to have parents that would have taught me esperantoooo :P
7AlexFord 1 year ago
Damn, why not teach him some more useful language, it's not even sure if this language will be spread out at all.
cryozo 1 year ago
@cryozo Actually, it is pretty spread out. It is popular in China and Japan, and many people in Europe speak the language. There are conferences every year. :)
sirach 1 year ago
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poor child...
maxval67 1 year ago
mi vin amas! vi donas al ni esperon ke oni povos nin aŭdi finfine! dankon al vi!
MsCesper 1 year ago
I had started acquiring Esperanto, but then went on doing other things so much that I only know the very basics of its grammar and vocabulary...
I wonder what the trend of Esperanto speakers' demographics is; more particularly, I'm curious about that of native speakers.
SniperMaske 1 year ago
@SniperMaske There are no native speakers. Esperanto is an invented language.
berlingoski 1 year ago
@berlingoski "native speaker" simply means to be brought up with a language from birth, not necessarily to be born in a land where this language is spoken. In Esperanto itself the "native speakers" are more correctly called "denaskaj parolantoj", that means "from-birth speakers".
pohli74 1 year ago 2
@berlingoski That's not actually true. They are called "denaskoj" (from birth) and it is estimated that there are about 1000-3000 people who learned to speak Esperanto since they were <5. Look up George Sorros, if you don't believe me. His last name is the Esperanto for 'will soar" and his first language was Esperanto. In fact, I hope that my children will be denaskoj.
TheSage555 1 year ago 4
I think that the baby's native language must be paramount. Parents should have this in mind if they want good for their child.
jjjozk 1 year ago
Mi tute kongratulas la patron de Bebo pro laboro. La rezulto ĉi tie videbla venas el laboro de la patro (kaj patrino?). Unue eble Bebo ne parolos angle tiel rapide kiel siaj geamikoj, sed baldaŭ li povos paroli kaj angle kaj esperante sen problemoj. Mi tute volus scii pri Bebo kiam li aĝas kaj parolas pri la perfekta logiko de esperanto kontraŭ la tute ne perfekta logiko de la aliaj lingvoj. Danko, feverfresh.
frafor 1 year ago
Tre cxarma!!!
Anckaux mi nun volas bebon!
Mikethekinslayer 1 year ago
Li estas tre ĉarma! :)
EnnaBlack 1 year ago
Via filo estas tre dolca kaj li komprenas tre Esperanto. Mi instros mia infanoj ankau Esperanto. Sed mia Esperanto estas malbona :)
789123Y 1 year ago
Tre bone!!! mi estas komencanto en Esperanto!
vasquezama 1 year ago
Cute kid. I'll definitely teach my children the language.
Not1OfUrFans 1 year ago
Tre beleta! Mi estas komencanto en Esperanto.
atimholt 1 year ago
Hahahahah! Ghi memorigas al mi mian filon! Ecx li ankauh imitas la hundoj kaj katoj tiamaniere. Tre bela! Gratulojn al la gepatroj!
emmanux 1 year ago
cute
ViniciusFiocco 1 year ago
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@Zervic @ariboreal KiAn diras kato? KiAn diras hundo? KiAn diras bovo?
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Mi ŝatas la filmeton! Deziras mi ke mi parolus Esperanton kiam mi estis infano.
Kara infano, lernu Esperanton. Mi ankaŭ elkore dankas al viaj gepatroj kaj aliaj, kiuj instruas al vi la lingvon internacian
1989Zachyo 2 years ago
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1989Zachyo 2 years ago
how you say kiel what? when he is making animal sounds
ariboreal 2 years ago
@ariboreal Kion diras kato? Kion diras hundo? Kion diras bovo?
Zervic 2 years ago
So cute...I'm 20 years old, and this child speaks esperanto a lot better than me lol
roinmc89 2 years ago 2
como es eso posible??? alguien debió haberle hablado a cada rato en esperanto, acaso fue así?? :o
NRiv91 2 years ago
@NRiv91 lol,ur a rat and 90% of hispanic cuz u don't know any foreign language at all,that baby is smarter than u :P
ArminiusRO 2 years ago
@ArminiusRO no hablés mierdas que no sabés HDP, te entendí perfectamente lo que quisiste decir, c*r*t* de m**rd*!!! I speak english kaj esperanton, sunt de învățare română и русский язык.
NRiv91 2 years ago
@NRiv91 "sunt de invatare romana" ?????
=)) it means "i am for learning english",dude i am romanian so it's obviously that u don't know romanian,i think u used google translate :P
ArminiusRO 2 years ago
¡Qué niño tan tierno!
ivancillopecho 2 years ago
looks like spanish and portuguese
Jurr144n 2 years ago
it is a combination of different European languages.
MrXMGS 2 years ago
Belege!
Sersank Kojn
MrSERSANK 2 years ago
How do you get children who grow up in a 2 language home not to mix up both languages in their speech?
Kiel vi evitas ke la infanoj kiuj estas en dulingva hejmo ne parole intermiksus la du ?
triniguy999 2 years ago
Children learn languages because of their need to communicate with their parents. The best way to do it, is to have one parent speak to the child in only one language and the other speak in solely another. If the child mixes up a word, correct them. By around the age of three, they should be bale to differentiate between the languages.
TheSage555 2 years ago
you are absolutely right,my father is romanian and my mother is hungarian,they talked to me when i was little in both languages.novadays i speak mostly romanian but i understand hungarian very well and i can talk in hungarian whenever i have too.
ArminiusRO 2 years ago
Vi distingas. Ekzemple, patro parolas Esperante, patrino parolas angle. Aŭ, gepatroj parolas Esperanton Lunde, la angla Marde, Esperanto Merkrede, ktp. La infanoj ne konfuziĝas. Ĝuste kiel ni, ili enmetas la lingvojn en apartaj partoj de la cerboj.
thisusernameistaken2 2 years ago
Miranda, vin estas tre bona patro!
TheSage555 2 years ago 2
I think it sounds like portuguese
NinoMig 2 years ago
Esperanto has a lot of "oy" sounds whilst Portuguese has a lot of "ao", "sh", and "ch" sounds.
sed Esperanto estas tre bona por l'internacia lingvo!
arpee9216 2 years ago
OMG!!!! How cuuuuute!^^ Ich denke ich werde jetzt esperanto lernen :P
pronkisass 2 years ago 2
kia charma bebo! Wirklich lieb!
Ousios 2 years ago
Estas ĉarma, sed ne pensas ke ĉi tiu povus eble damaĝos lian angla?
homestarfan2008 2 years ago
@homestarfan2008 Tute ne! Tia naivaĵo estas jam delonge pruvite falsa. Lia angla parolkapablo estas fakte eĉ pli bona ol liaj samaĝuloj.
feverfresh 2 years ago 10
@feverfresh Kompreneble, cerbo estas kia musklo - pli da ekzercado, des pli da kapablo.
emmanux 1 year ago
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marauder08901 2 years ago
@homestarfan2008 Fakte, psiĥologoj nun pensas ke infanoj kiuj parolas du lingvojn havas pli fortajn lingvajn kapablecojn (en ambaŭ lingvoj) ol infanoj kiuj parolas nur unu.
AtomikNY 1 year ago
@AtomikNY Tio verŝajnas, sed la "dua" lingvo povus esti io pli utila ol Esperanto.
MegaTories 1 year ago
@homestarfan2008 Ne. Angla estas feko. Multa popolo lernas plurajn lingvojn de infanaĵo, en eksterlandoj for de Usono kaj Anglujo. La Hebreo lernas Jidon kaj Anglan, en Usono.
schlachthauz 1 year ago
Mirinda! :D
Ultimateria 2 years ago
This is the cutest kid I've ever seen!! :) so adorable! :) makes you wanna learn Esperanto. :)
Geshem1983 2 years ago 29
@Geshem1983 Mi estas lerni la Esperanto :D
FearedBliss 9 months ago
@FearedBliss Ankaux mi!
Geshem1983 8 months ago
@Geshem1983 Yes, in fact I just called a friend of mine to teach me Esperanto!
manoeltheophilo 7 months ago
I think Esperanto would be great-the kid could go onto learn German and romance languages.
I would write in Esperanto, but I've only been learning one day :)
pnksbl 2 years ago
This debate about advantege or not for using Esperanto as a native language is ridiculous. It's obvious that the Parents will not let to teach their mother language to the child. Besides, we have also to consider the aquiring of the spirit of the language. For me, this is the most important point of the learning/teaching process.
78032012 2 years ago
Kia ĉarmega infaneto :-)
EsperantinoMorigi 2 years ago 4
Because Esperanto is easy to learn as an adult, knowing it from a young age doesn't really give anyone an advantage. If someone teaches a child Esperanto but not their local language, then they're doing it wrong,
feverfresh 2 years ago 5
That's really true, with only 16 grammar rules, no average adult would have problems learning Esperanto. Also I learnt Esperanto in only 1 week not in "years of effort" like the 8 years it has taken for me to learn English and still not be fluent.
Also, being Esperanto a no national language, and not being taught in any public school those children won't have any advantage over anyone when it comes to speak Esperanto.
antitesiz 2 years ago 3
@feverfresh absolutely, and there's a school of thought that the more complicated your first language is the easier it is for you to pick up a second one.
For example if your first language is something like German with 4 cases (or Polish with 6!)and you have to learn something like English with no cases then it's a walk in the park for you right up untill about a B1/B2 level. But if your first language is English then getting your head around cases is so hard that you struggel from the start
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@feverfresh And if I, living in Norway, teaches my child Icelandic I am doing it harm? Iceland is where I was born and brought up, and if Esperanto happens to be someone's culture - why not teach your kid? Easy little language, nothing as hard as English which is incredibly easy...
Come on! Let the kid have the advantage of at least not being brought up thinking English is the only language in the world!
HimmiJoe 1 year ago 4
@feverfresh Yes, but sometimes couples are formed through esperanto associations and they dont a share a language besides esperanto, so they speak it at home and children learn it as a mother language. However they never have poblems learning also de local language
acroboyargentina 1 year ago
@feverfresh your wrong. esperanto may be an international auxiliary language but according to Wikipedia There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a superior foundation for learning languages in general, and some primary schools teach it as preparation for learning other foreign languages. cause wikipedia is reliable!
ohkfilms 11 months ago
@feverfresh All Esperanto speakers are bilingual. You can grow up speaking two languages, y'know.
SolusNimbus 9 months ago
Sorry to press the issue, but i am actually looking for a response here. This is from the first principle of the Prague manifesto:
"Any system of communication which confers lifelong privileges on some while requiring others to devote years of effort to achieving a lesser degree of competence is fundamentally antidemocratic."
vallettam 2 years ago
"Dr. L.L. Zamenhof ...proposed Esperanto as a second language that would allow people who speak different native languages to communicate, yet at the same time retain their own languages and cultural identities."
In response to Bjokac, the denaskuloj that you met simply cannot be the native speakers they claim to be if they speak it so poorly. Either you speak it or you don't.
vallettam 2 years ago
Firstly, i think it is completely ignorant to vote my comment down for asking a legitimate question that has plagued me since I began learning Esperanto. Secondly I offer 2 quotes to support my reasoning for asking this question that come directly from the Esperanto USA website:
"Esperanto doesn't replace anyone's language but simply serves as a common second language."
vallettam 2 years ago
Ultimately it can't hurt. Learning multiple languages at a younger age is likely a good foundation for any child.
whoweare 2 years ago
Why teach a baby Esperanto? Isn't the point that it is a language acquired secondly, so nobody has the "home team" advantage?
vallettam 2 years ago
But there are denaskuloj. They are people who speak Esperanto as a home language 'cause his parents taught 'em it
PS Sorry for my bad english
Hymake 2 years ago
It appears that the native Esperanto speakers have a very average level of speaking, I know some of of them who are much poorer speakers than anybody learning seriously for one year.
Bjokac 2 years ago
Cxar gxi estas tre amuza.
hugoestr 2 years ago 2
Fair question. My wife and I are expecting our third child any day now; I plan to teach her Esperanto. I expect she also will learn English, given that it's our first tongue,
So why Esperanto? Because it's easy to learn, and speaking one second language is a tremendous boost to learning others. Because it's a hobby I enjoy, and I enjoy sharing my interests with my children. And of course, because it's a language not many people speak, which means my children and I can have privacy in public.
davidlearn 2 years ago 2
tiom facila ghi estas
saadaya 2 years ago