Re: Language and its political impact

Global language.

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[BloodBound093]

how long have you studied esperanto, amadeus? do you speak any other languages?

[amadeus5521]

I've been speaking Esperanto since February, 2005. I'm currently learning Japanese, and German. I'm conversational in Japanese, and Basic in German. I can also understand spanish pretty well, though am crap at speaking it. =P

[amadeus5521]

English is extremely hard to learn. It has the largest lexicon, loads of rules, with about as many exceptions, and many figures of speech. The whole point of Esperanto is simplicity(which can't be found with any other viable language). Esperanto is no waste of time, especially for those who natively speak it (Denaskuloj). Everyday, I communicate with people from all around the world, many can't speak a word of english. For me to do this any other way, I'd have to learn 100s of natural languages

[Albesa81]

Your remark about the diversity of languages sounds like a great excuse to not learn another one;-)

FYI Esperanto doesn't want to destroy the different cultures;its goal is to made possible to communicate with people from others countries in a *simple* and *neutral* way.

Moreover,your last sentence is a complete nonsense:who did determine we're not supposed to all be able to communicate without difficulty?

This is a looser's warcry just like "we weren't born to be happy" or such silly things.

[ArturoStojanoff]

@ArturoStojanoff Besides the pronunciation is really hard and the spelling is ridiculously random (apart from some weird and also random rules); I don't think the Latin alphabet is the one for English, too little vowels.. :/

And yes I agree with the exceptions and figures of speech part.

[ArturoStojanoff]

I beg to differ, not a 100% though. I believe that at first sight, English is dead easy. I speak English as a second language, it is, in fact, the only language I speak fluently other than Spanish. And at first, English seems simple (for European languages speakers, at least). Why? Because it has a really simple basic grammar with seldom inflections and verb conjugations. But when you go in depth, you realize that to make up for this supposed simplicity, it has a really complicated set of rules.

[gkyy3c]

amadeus5521 I think a global language will exist in a near future, because of internet, principally. We can't just invent a language... But, I think that to be proud of a LANGUAGE is completely STUPID. The best thing possible in comunication is to use the same language in the whole world, but it must be obtained in a natural process. Think about Brazil. Brazil's portuguese is a mixture of Portuguese, Spanish and Native Indians ( Tupi, Guarani), and this mixture was natural... not forced.

[verevie]

@etano1 I have learnt Esperanto as well and spoken with people almost perfectly if not perfectly after only half a year or a little more. Try to learn any other language in that amount of time and speak near fluently, especially one as complex as English.

[Blaze6432]

vertain multiethical countries like India face this problem. its kinda tuff

[dannyboy860]

Why is this girls voice so deep???

[Bitchin456]

@amadeus5521 Yes its true English is a difficult and large language but, its the most used.

[wortdurst]

hi amadeus,i think i'll give esperanto a try in my spare time,but i'm a bit worried by accents..being italian i'm not so used to those strange signs..what kind of keyboard layout should i use to write esperanto correctly?

ps where are you from?

[yousifnajjar]

esperanto IS culturally biased ... because its based only on european languages. diversity of languages is a beautiful thing, and so is learning them, and its fine to not understand what somebody else is saying to you, because not only of differences in languages but also of culture. we're not supposed to all be able to communicate to each other without difficulty, we're humans not robots...