 What's up guys Evil D here and tonight's video will actually be my contribution to the hashtag campaign Esperanto lives now for those who are watching this and are completely new to my channel or even my videos You're going to be asking yourself. What the hell is that now? I'll get into depth about the Esperanto side of that in a second But I just want to say that Esperanto lives is a international campaign to raise awareness about what is Esperanto And basically a little bit about its history and how I came to be an Esperanto speaker because it is actually a language Now let's I guess dive straight into this. So first up most of my real life friends. Yeah, you know who you are You guys watching me on Facebook Know me as Richard, but you probably just heard me introduce myself as Evil Deer The reason being is because that's my YouTube name and that's what I'm actually mostly known as So for those who are like what? Yeah, I run a YouTube channel It's a decent sized Esperanto YouTube channel Where I basically do videos every day in Esperanto the language as I said earlier So what is Esperanto because I've been mentioning this word a lot. So it's basically just a language now You you're probably thinking it sounds kind of European and you'd be right Esperanto is based on European languages Based on but it's actually a artificial language It was designed back in 1887 by an individual the whole idea of this language originally was to be a International language for the entire world. So it was designed to be easy to learn easily recognizable And basically neutral like politically because you got to remember English is a language of an imperial power Chinese is a language of you know, the Chinese imperial power Etc. Etc. All these languages belong to countries. So when you use these languages internationally, you're actually pushing your language Internationally on other countries, but you know, that's besides the point That's what it was originally created for however since 1887 a lot of stuff happened around the world and Esperanto has kind of Growing in multiple ways. So it's developed its own culture and its own Everything okay, so films and literature music YouTube channels. That's what I do Everything it's become its own international culture in the sense However, there are people who still use it for that original goal now There's somewhere between like two million plus feet speakers around the world. No one really knows but you know, it doesn't matter So, yeah, that's what Esperanto is. It's a artificial language Originally, but now it's just a language like any other language around the world But with a really unique original history just how it came to be basically so Why did I learn this language is the next question and the reason I learned Esperanto was actually I found it completely by Accident I stumbled across it. I was one day in Wikipedia reading about languages somehow ended up on this article about international languages and It pointed to two different types of international languages in existence Historically all international languages have been what you call natural languages natural languages are languages that evolve So English French Chinese, you know Latin Greek all these types of languages from history But there's a second group of languages and these are created languages. So Esperanto falls into this group It's the king of that group. There is actually other languages that have been designed to be international languages But the only one that's ever made any success and actually entered the real world as a spoken language by a large group of people is Esperanto And when I read about this language the thing that caught me was the fact that it was created Originally and now it has native speakers and I was like that's really fascinating and it's meant to be the easiest language in the world to learn and I'd studied Japanese and French when I was younger and I failed at both but when I learned Esperanto within about three months I was conversing with people here in Sydney in Esperanto about everyday topics even politics and religion and stuff like that It was quite easy to do that I needed a dictionary to look up certain words and phrases and I stumbled a lot But I was holding conversations within three months something impossible in any other language unless you're like a lingua file Who's just like awesome at languages, which is not me I'm like the cookie at the bottom of the cookie jar type of thing. Um, so yeah that hooked me That's why I decided to learn it and then the culture of the language and the people my friends that I developed within the Community that all held me in and just basically kept me here and that's why I do it to this day as I said I'm now a youtuber. I produce videos in Esperanto. It's also become part of my career So yeah, it's basically embedded in every aspect of my life So for those of my friends who've always asked me what is Esperanto now you should know if you've got any questions Just leave me a comment below and Facebook Twitter, you know in the YouTube channel itself It doesn't matter just leave me a comment and I'll try and help you out and understanding this language a bit more Hopefully you'll start seeing these videos pop up everywhere around the world because they should be a lot coming up on the 15th It's like this massive international campaign. I'm looking forward to it. So yeah, this will be cool My video is literally going up on like one minute past 12 on the 15th Just so I can be ahead of the pack type of thing now that but yeah So that's the idea and as I usually say to all my viewers on my YouTube channel But I say in Esperanto, I'll see you all in the next video and if you're not there I will find you and I will infect you with my passion