Oceania Esperanto Congress 2008 - Auckland - New Zealand

Renewed hope for Esperanto! http://www.esperanto.org.nz Enthusiasts attending the Oceania Esperanto Congress in Auckland (14-23 January 2008) say there's new hope for the invented language which was once hoped to become the world's universal tongue. Copyright One News, NZTV.

See also:
Esperanto in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/user/penivos#p/a/u/1/YvekjRgwUkg
and:
http://www.mondeto.com/

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• congress
• oceania
• Auckland
• New_Zealand
• international
• language
• www.esperanto.org.nz
• www.esperanto.net
• lernu.net

[EsperantoTv]

Check out what is possible to do with Esperanto (that happens in Australia)

youtube.com/user/penivos#p/a/u­/1/YvekjRgwUkg

[ampersandtay]

The problem with Esperanto is similar as the problem with Linux. Most people do not want their "thing" to move into the mainstream and try to make sure this doesn't happen.

In Linux you have Mark Shuttleworth determined to move "Ubuntu" into the mainstream - fighting all the screaming and kicking.

Esperanto needs a Shuttleworth. Until this happens the next 50 years of Esperanto will be the same as the last 50 years.

Every country in the world should teach Esperanto as a second language.

[pupeno2]

A language is a very long-term project; you can't say whether it was a success or a failure yet.

[UltimateTechReviewer]

Mi ne povas atend gxis mi (Espereble) cxeest la Mondo Kongreso Esperanto aux en Hanoi, Vjetnamio aux Kopenhago, Danio!!

[Moltao]

@kirby4d

that last line did it for me :')

and i totally agree, their goddamned fucking faces ARE biased! :D

[kallekula2121]

There is no problem with Esperanto. The language is working as a mean of communication. The problem is the users who do not consider it "a real langugage".

I have used the language for more than 45 years for personal purposes and only when my counterpart does not master Swedish or English (actually, there are quite a lot of people that do not master English, I am one of them ;-)).

As all users have to learn the language, the communication will occur, to some extent, in equal terms.

[powerdriller10]

For asians, or may be we should say far-east-ners (korean, japanese, chinese, vietnamese), Esperanto is a first step forward before they learn western national languages, from their perspective western languages are dialects from Esperanto.

For islamic middle-east countries there is a problem with Esperanto, they would like everybody to learn arabic as the international language, because that was the language of their pedophile and murderer prophet Mohamed, while Esperanto is a jew invention.

[MasterAsra]

@kirby4d Actually, more Prussian and German. Russia was even smaller back then than it was after the breaking up of the USSR.

[batboy49]

@pupeno2 Yes and relatively speaking the language has done quite well for itself. Name another language less than 200 years old with millions of speakers. In the same time some languages (for example Irish) have diminished from millions to some few thousands.

[kirby4d]

@vaguelyhumanoid I think back then it was Russia and its all Russia in my book. :3

[vaguelyhumanoid]

@kirby4d

Poland, actually.

[sodukube1]

fartas doesn't mean doing it means fairing. So it really means: in what manner are you fairing? that would mean the exact same thing to a japanese person as it means to us.