Bebo parolas en Esperanto

Kupero aghas 21 monatojn, kaj bone komprenas la internacian lingvon.

Cooper, a 21-month old boy from the U.S., can speak and understand the international language Esperanto

Category:

Education

Tags:

• esperanto
• infano
• denaskulo

[MrLuisc7]

woww.. just by knowing english, spanish, and portuguese I understood all of it. Russian didn't help at all.. :D

[B3ingMyself]

@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 =)

[69kokakola]

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)

[LoveConnieAndTH]

@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. :)

[gedupawadat]

@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

[LoveConnieAndTH]

@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.

[gedupawadat]

@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?

[LoveConnieAndTH]

@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]

@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]

@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?

[LoveConnieAndTH]

@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]

@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 (...)