Part 02 - Esperanto is a language with many traits.

Esperanto is a language. It is neutral because it doesn't belong to any single group of people or country. It is international and mainly useful for communication among people from several countries. It is egalitarian and easier to learn than national languages. It evolves and flourishes just like other languages, and can be used to express every aspect of human thought and feeling. It is relatively young, pioneered by Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof in 1887. A unique, rich and living language it is highly esteemed by many people throughout the world. Esperanto is still not very well known, so this is the reason for this film.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• esperanto
• international language

[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.

[emzademon]

Esperanto sounds better than English

[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

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.