Part 1 - Esperanto Encounter

A chance meeting with an Esperanto traveller.

An Introduction to Esperanto.

http://www.melburno.org.au

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Esperanto
• International
• Language

[Aarixan]

I've become very interested in learning Esperanto. It's a shame there aren't any speakers of it in my city. :=/

[melburno]

@Aarixan Why not start up your own club? There are resources on lernu.net and edukado.net

[WestCanuckistan]

Why all the hate on Esperanto? I find it quite fascinating that I can't speak the language but can understand it written down because of my experience with fFench and German. I think it's time to become Trilingual.

[melburno]

@WestCanuckistan There's really no reason not to learn Esperanto - I think it challenges those poor souls who don't want to do anything.

As someone said (not me, but i understand), there are plenty of monolingual idiots - Thanks to Esperanto, we can even have bilingual idiots!

[TheEnviroFriend]

i think they should teach esperanto in schools, that would really help it take off, but it would be hard to find esperanto speakers to teach.

[thefartydoctor]

"Neniam pisu en la venton." I learned that phrase today. :D

[mariare0]

@cornbagel Esperanto shouldn't be a lost language, it is similar to Spanish. I just wish I had me a teacher to teach me, it fluently.

[cornbagel]

@mariare0 Buena suerte/good luck/bonan ŝancon!

[psychoticIndie]

Haha That woman is speaking Maltese. All Maltese speak English

[mariare0]

I believe that bilingual, even trilingual people are very interesting. I plan on learning Esperanto, I find it very simple for me to pronounce the words (since pronouncation is very difficult for me) I will want to learn to speak it fluently. I am very fluent in English, I am good at Spanish as well. When I was young I learned to speak two languages: Spanish, and English. I even used to speak Spanish very fluent. I want to be able to speak 3 or even 4 languages fluently, and hopefully pass it on

[dayron25]

omg the lady is speaking maltese!

[UmadBRO1999]

@blackrosefallen11 lol you dont know what nationality peachclover hails from and yet you claim that you have met many individuals of the same ethnic origin which are mean, idiotic and ignorant. how do you know he isnt an alien of superior intelligence whose kind never resort to violence; maybe whatever juvenile comment he has posted was part of a controlled experiment to see how humans respond to such blatantly ignorant banter. have you ever considered that? didnt think so. :]

[burentu]

I too hear an english accent in the conversation of these people, now i read that Esperanto is a mixture of both latin, germanic and slavic vocabulary's.

So.. what is the dialect like actually? I myself, am from the Netherlands. (dutch is a hard language to speak properly for foreigners who aren't raised with it, but that also means that the dutch people are very good at learning to speak other languages without too much of an accent).

[SokratesNamon]

Here is the interesting thing about universal artificial languages, got this from Wikipedia:

Reactions of 20th-century totalitarian regimes to Esperanto

As a potential vehicle for international understanding, Esperanto attracted the suspicion of many totalitarian states. The situation was especially pronounced in Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.

[blackrosefallen11]

@peachcloverlauper It does not sound spanish at all! I should know, it was my first language. As for your rude comment about hispanics, I've met plenty of white, black, & asian(or whatever the heck your nationality is) people that are mean, idiotic, and just plain ignorant, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to learn more about the next person that comes in my way, no matter what language they speak... You sound much more "unsavory" with your racism than any uneducated hispanic on the street