 What's up guys, EvilD here. Now today I was planning to do a gaming video but unfortunately my wife has cocked it out early and she's sleeping right next to my gaming PC slash editing PC slash everything so I can't do any of that. So instead I've decided to do a video blog about something that um has interested me for a while and also give you guys a little story about one of my travels but first up um I've been reading this book I just started kind of reading it again. I read part of it once before particularly one chapter that seemed interesting to me but now I've decided to start reading it from the beginning. Now this book is called Paraconto El Amato and it was given to me by another Esperantist um and it's obviously fully in Esperanto but I love these this book on this particular religious movement which is called Amato because there is hardly anything about it in English but there's a ton in Esperanto if you can find it. Now Amato for those who don't know is like a very small religious movement that exists in Japan when I say small it's still massive by like a number of people but it's small as in percentage wise to the overall population. Now Amato has a very strong history of Esperanto I believe it was like the second or the third um Spirita Gavidantino uh no the Spirita Gavidantino I don't when I speak English and Esperanto just messes everything up I gotta speak one language or the other so the Spirita Gavidantino del Amato um in 1923 what was her name um uh Onisaburo Deguchi I've got it written down here who recognized Esperanto as um the main like it should be used as the main tool for intercultural inter-country communication type of thing and kind of promoted and from that moment on Esperanto has kind of massively grown with the Amato movement and it's got a very important place it's like a spiritual type of language almost within the movement so it's it's got a very um it's very ingrained in the actual religion itself. Now this book here was written by a guy who's traveled to Japan several times um Roman dog breed I don't know how to pronounce that as Polish someone Polish pronounce it for me and he basically goes on about what happened during his travels and he also interviews some Amato adherents I guess and he spent like six months there at one point and he's talks about how like if you're within the Amato locations like for instance the Centro de Amato and Kamioka which is like the center for Amato like there's signage in Esperanto that most of the people who have anything to do with the promotion of Esperanto are I mean the promotion of Amato are able to speak Esperanto most people who are at least acquainted with the language and a lot of them a lot more than you would find in any other grouping like religious grouping actually can speak the language and this is in Japan mind you so it's not exactly European central country so it really fascinates me and I love reading this book and I've I read a like one chapter on a particular Esperantist I liked once a long time ago and then I kind of put the book in my bookshelf and kind of forgot about it but you guys should definitely check it out because I'll just start reading again and it's freaking epic but it reminded me because this guy traveled to Japan and oh by the way just before I go into it that there is my savior dictionary this dictionary is freaking awesome for just quickly looking up words just in case you want to get one so yeah it reminds me of my trip when I went to China because I actually stopped by Beijing and I randomly just decided to shoot an email off to I think it was China radio internet see a Chinese Chinese international radio and I didn't think much about it but one of the Esperantists actually responded and said yeah sure come to this location I'll pick you up and it was funny because the whole time by Mrs like don't go there you know you don't know if they're criminals or what's gonna happen they're gonna like abduct you and sell you to the mountain people or something like that was actually quite funny but we just I decided to convince her that come on let's just go to this location they said and we'll see what happens so we went there I remember we got off a bus and um this young Chinese guy walked up to me and then in perfect completely fluent Esperanto basically said uh salut on me and I was like holy crap this is this guy speaking Esperanto with a better accent than me and then I find out after a while that he actually studied Esperanto at university and it was funny because during this point when I'm talking with this guy because he's actually walking us back to I guess like their workplace it's the first time since we've been in China when my Mrs has no clue what's going on all the other times I was going what are you saying what are you saying when she's speaking Chinese to like her friends and also people that she's meeting she's like a silent silent you know I'm busy right now and so at this point it was finally me doing it to her because I was like I'll be quiet be quiet I'm speaking to an Esperanto speaker right now anyway he took me up into I think it was the headquarters for Chinaradio International I was only there for an hour mind you um and he introduced me to like five other people it was like their lunch break and they're all Esperanto speakers and it seemed like they had all gone to university type of thing and they're all like different editors and stuff like that it was it was really really a fascinating event like this was my first ever international meeting with Esperanto and it was kind of just like thrown together at the last moment type of thing and it was really interesting because I asked them why did you study Esperanto at uni and they're like well for the job opportunities I was like what job opportunities and they told me everyone in China studies English they have to basically but very few can actually speak English at the end like barely anyone ever actually completes an English course well they complete the course but they never actually able to speak the language and that's true because I met so many people they're like yeah I studied English at school they're telling my missus this in Chinese and then they can say hello to me in English and that's about it but at the end of the course they're saying when they first came into uni like they they sat down like at some type of meeting or something um there was two people there and one of them goes you can study English and that will help you get jobs but there's no guarantee you'll get a job because there's so much competition and most of the competition is actually from foreigners so you've got to basically go up against them good luck with that because they've got perfect accents they're English speakers or you can do what this guy recommends speak Esperanto and be guaranteed a job at the end of this course because they're desperate for Esperanto speakers at the government agencies that support Esperanto because there's actually several different groups that you know have um like that support Esperanto especially within the Beijing area so they were basically guaranteed a job if they just completed the Esperanto course and they completed the courses they got jobs um one of them was um one of them had been there for like 15 years and it was really it was like really really fascinating because it was a fully professional atmosphere and Esperanto speakers it was like it was all work related and all that they weren't like most of them that I spoke to weren't actually idealistic in any form for them it was just something that they had to do for their career um they enjoyed the language they loved it the fact that they could you know get a job out of this type of thing but it was a very different type of atmosphere it was more like Esperanto is a career path rather than a hobby language like we would treat it here in Australia because the government just they don't give two hoots about Esperanto in Australia so it was very different and that actually even offered me a job at one point they're like you know we're actually looking for someone to come work here for I think it was like six months or something um within the editing department or something um you seem like a good enough Esperanto speed you want to work here and I was like my business is in Chinese but we just brought a house back in Australia so there's no way I was going to be able to do that but anyway I just thought I'd share that little bit with you and one last thing I went to um the Forbidden City which is actually called the Purple City in um Chinese because it's actually like purple like it's painted so we call it Forbidden City but they call it the Purple City um and in Esperanto it's also called the Puputa Urubop so we went there we walked through it and it's freaking massive like so massive you can spend a day there and not see everything we come out the other end there's this little tourism booth okay and I walked past it not even thinking and I kind of stopped and I look over and there's like these little electronic guides you can get and there were all sorts of languages and I just joked to my missus I was like ha wonderful there's an Esperanto one I walked over and there there was there was a freaking Esperanto electronic guide so if you ever go to the Forbidden City in China go to the tourist stand and get yourself an electronic guide in Esperanto because I didn't get one yep I went through the whole freaking city came out the other end and then realized that they have an electronic guide in freaking Esperanto so I was highly disappointed about that fact because I had to go the next day anyway so that was just my random video blog about what I'm reading at the moment my fascination my newfound fascination with Amato my experience with Esperanto in China my randomly thrown together experience that all basically happened in a two hour period so it's not really that much to tell you about but yeah so if you've liked this video give it a like share it around with your friends subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and I promise tomorrow I'll have a video game slash Esperanto lesson or whatever for you guys so see you then and if you're not there you know what happens I find you and I do bad things to you