 What's up guys, EvilDeer here, and today's video is just my contribution to the campaign Esperanto Lives. This is a big international campaign where Esperanto speakers basically make a video, target Esperanto lives and share it around to just raise awareness. So first up, I'm EvilDeer, my real name is Richard Dalamall, but I prefer EvilDeer, and you guys need to call me that. No, it's just my online name, it's my YouTube name, because that's what I do most of the time. I'm a YouTuber. That's one of my secondary income sources, I suppose. So I do YouTubing and I do it in Esperanto. So first up, what is Esperanto? Esperanto is a created language. It's about 120 years old. It was originally created to be an international language for all people, so it was based on a mixture of the dominant European languages at the time. However, since then, English has become the most dominant language, but Esperanto is still growing and quite steadily. So I speak this language and I first learned it because I wanted to learn a language that I could actually conquer. I was not very confident. I tried French, tried Japanese, failed at both. So I tried Esperanto and I found that I could actually learn this language. And little bit by little bit, I became more and more fluent to the point where I'm now an Esperanto YouTuber and people actually look up to me regarding grammar and stuff like that, which I would never imagine would have ever happened previously. It just wouldn't have entered my mind if you asked me that seven years ago. If you told me seven years ago that I would be an Esperanto YouTuber, I'd go, what's Esperanto? That would be what I would say. So anyway, that's how I found the language. Well, not really how I found it, but that's why I learned the language, I guess. I found it if you're interested just randomly while surfing Wikipedia as you do. And now I want to speak about why I stuck with this language. So I learned it, it was easy. That was the first reason why I kind of stuck around. Every day I saw progress when I was learning it. But I really stuck around because of the friends and the connections I made within the community. The Esperanto community is like spread across the entire world. And I found that really helpful in pretty much every aspect of my life. It has helped me with my career because if I need to contact or find out something about a particular country, language, location, there's always someone who's able to help me. All I have to do, like for instance yesterday, I needed to write a letter in French. I posted it on Facebook. Within two minutes, I had four different people propose to translate that letter into French for me. That's how handy the language is. I could do that with anything realistically. I could ask about a culture, about something historically about a language, and I would be able to find someone with instantly who could help me with whatever that question is. So that's another thing. It's a really helpful community. Third, the reason I stuck around is I felt like I could make a difference. With the English community as an actor, I'm a nobody. I'm just some actor on the side who might occasionally get work if I'm really, really lucky. But that's about it. In the Esperanto community, I've made an impact. I have actually helped push for the Esperanto film industry in a sense. I'm not trying to be all bigheaded here, but I feel like I've made a contribution that's actually helped in some way. So that's why I stuck around, because the community's big, but just small enough for me to make my impact on it. And I guess that would be the main reasons. Friendship, ease of learnability, the impact I can make on the community. And I guess lastly, the culture. How many people can say that they speak the only created living language in existence today? And it makes a really good conversation breaker. I'll tell you that. You just pop out, I speak Esperanto and pretty much everyone's asking you questions. And then from that point on, you know, whatever strangeness there was in a conversation, it just gets so much more awesome with that. So that's pretty much it. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the language. And I hope you've enjoyed this video. So if you like it, like it, share it around, sub to my channel if you haven't already. If you don't speak Esperanto, all my videos have English subtitles, so you can just turn that on. And that's it. I'll see you all in the next video. And it is customary at the end of my Esperanto videos to threaten you all. But today, since I'm speaking in English, I'm not going to threaten you. You have to learn Esperanto to truly understand how horrific I can be. Have a great day. But you can also subscribe to my channel if you're interested. There's a link in the description below. Donate now. So I'm a donator now.