EP4: How many people speak Esperanto? Why is it difficult to promote?世界语为何难以大范围推广?

EP4: How many people speak Esperanto? Why is it difficult to promote?

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  • @linguistic__passion
    @linguistic__passion2 ай бұрын

    Dankon pro la disvastigo de informoj pri nia kara lingvo 😀!

  • @SuitUpDubstep
    @SuitUpDubstep4 ай бұрын

    Mi deziras, ke pli da homoj parolu esperante.

  • @ronaldonmg
    @ronaldonmg3 ай бұрын

    Facebook apparently isn´t willing to disclose how many of its users list Esperanto as one of their languages. Wikipedia says that Vikipedio has 590.000 unique visitors a month

  • @uilleam_uiiken
    @uilleam_uiiken Жыл бұрын

    Saluton! Mi estas komencanto.

  • @Espermevo

    @Espermevo

    Жыл бұрын

    Bonvenon! Kiam vi eklernis la lingvon?

  • @shannyloveesperanto4788

    @shannyloveesperanto4788

    Ай бұрын

    Varme bonvenigas vin aligxi al Esperantujo!

  • @EsperantoAlmenara
    @EsperantoAlmenaraАй бұрын

    Saluton el mezlernejo Almenara en Vélez-Málaga!! (Hispanio) la unua eduka centro kie oni povas oficiale lerni Esperanton. Esperanto povus esti bonegan ponton inter Azio kaj Okcidento.

  • @shannyloveesperanto4788

    @shannyloveesperanto4788

    Ай бұрын

    Jes, vi pravas! Gxojas ricevi vian komenton. Plej bonan bondeziron al vi!

  • @esperanto8033
    @esperanto8033 Жыл бұрын

    Mi ankaux eklernis cxirkaux la sama jaro!

  • @jonathanvilario5402
    @jonathanvilario54024 ай бұрын

    In my opinion, Esperanto really needs to pitch itself as "the language to learn any other language." Once you get the training techniques in esperano, you get the confidence to learning any other European language. Studies have shown that learning esperanto first helps speed up the learning other languages, so as a prerequisite prior to learning English, Spanish or other European languages, it could really incentivize others to learn Esperanto as an avenue for better and faster language comprehension.

  • @seanoriain8294

    @seanoriain8294

    2 ай бұрын

    Precisely. And not only European languages: at a deeper level, Esperanto has much in common with agglutinating languages like Turkish, and isolating languages like Mandarin Chinese.

  • @karlturner9038
    @karlturner9038 Жыл бұрын

    Dankon por bonega filmeto pri Esperanto. Malgrau tiu estas konstruita linngva, Esperanto estas suficxe funkcia. Ecx pli tiu estas subtaksita. Vere. Kaj tiu helpas multe lerni aliajn lingvojn cxar post lernado Esperanton oni povas pli facile kaj rapide gajni vortprovizon, ekzemple, kiam oni lernas la francan.

  • @Espermevo

    @Espermevo

    Жыл бұрын

    Jes, ech ghi helpas min lerni la anglan iom

  • @Konindajo
    @Konindajo3 ай бұрын

    💚

  • @snowythecat9159
    @snowythecat9159 Жыл бұрын

    🤩😊😍🌹🌹💚💚💚💚💚

  • @Silentema
    @Silentema Жыл бұрын

    Ne ekzistas multe de rimedoj en Esperanto :'c

  • @frechjo
    @frechjo Жыл бұрын

    Kiom da homoj parolas E-on? Tiom multe, ke koni, interparoli, aŭ memori ĉiujn el ili estus neeble. Laŭ homa vidpunkto, tio jam estas multege XD

  • @ronaldonmg
    @ronaldonmg3 ай бұрын

    There is no language called "Indian", but Hindustani (aka Hindi&Urdu combined) is the fourth biggest language of the world

  • @rm.makes.me.smile_
    @rm.makes.me.smile_ Жыл бұрын

    Do you think that 1) it would be possible to incorporate some Asian language influence into Esperanto? and 2) do you think that doing so would make Esperanto closer to achieving its goal of being globally accessible? For me, I feel like it would certainly be helpful, but it’s hard to pin point which aspects would make it familiar enough to the different speakers. For example, Hangul as the writing system would be familiar to most people especially Chinese speakers since it forms phonetic blocks of sound into squares rather than a string of “letters” such as hiragana or Vietnamese; and it’s one of the smallest and intuitive alphabets there is, so it would be quick to learn for even people who have already learned the current Esperanto writing system or other Latin based languages. And then, maintaining some tonal aspects of Chinese and Vietnamese would help keep the contextual integrity of certain words that have different meanings even though they phonetically sound the same, depending on how you emphasize them; this would maintain the familiarity for Vietnamese and Chinese speakers. So, perhaps finding a way to include tone markers from Vietnamese to the Hangul would be helpful for Chinese speakers to recognize. And when it comes to vocabulary itself, there could be a combination of all languages such as Tagalog, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai, etc… probably using whichever words are the most overlapped in use or utilization across Asia; maybe even some borrowed words from English such as “컴퓨터“ (literally “computer” in Korean) or “そす“ (literally “sauce” in Japanese) which would maintain familiarity to English speakers, and keeping that “globally accessible” essence Esperanto has. So many ideas, but no ability to implement them 😭

  • @alenaadler8242

    @alenaadler8242

    Жыл бұрын

    You just heard an Asian speaker of Esperanto list all the pros and cons as she sees them. Eurocentrism was not a factor she mentioned. Over and over I see anglophones say Esperanto isn't accessable to Asian learners. It doesn't hold up.

  • @ulrikof.2486

    @ulrikof.2486

    4 ай бұрын

    Any language mixture will be criticised as unbalanced and unjust. But already years ago I had myself the idea to replace al esperantic three-syllable roots and some (or all) two-syllable roots by one-syllable chinese, basque, kartvelian, nahuatl, mayan and tamazight ones with the goal of reducing the amount of lengthy roots. Esperanto has a quite rich consonantic system (as compared to most other planned auxlangs) and a not so simple phonotactic system. This allows in principle for shorter roots (as many more combinations of phonemes are possible as compared to e.g. Interlingua, Volapük, Neo, Idiom Neutral, Loglan, Lidepla, Kotava etc.) and therefore multy-syllable-roots are not really necessary in Esperanto. To reduce the already existing level of homophony I even split existing roots into several new ones. That said, I still tried to stick with the Fundamento, according to the rules given by Zamenhof, that means: creating "necessary" new roots is allowed, but all about 3000 roots presented in the Universala Vortaro and the 16 rules will always be correct Esperanto and can be used forever. This makes, the new roots are an add-on (like 80% of all roots nowadays used and presented in e.g. the PIV).

  • @ulrikof.2486

    @ulrikof.2486

    4 ай бұрын

    And yes, for all speakers of languages having a simpler phonotactical system than Esperanto has, like Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian etc., the pronunciation of Esperanto is a hurdle. But languages with a very reduced phonetic system and avoiding clusters of consonants have a large drawback: they will have much more homonyms and many words will sound alike. Moreover, they are uncapable to serve as science languages when it comes to unambiguous naming of zillions of scientific names of plants and animals or the nomenclature of chemistry without making very long names. That is especially true for the languages mentioned, and for many conlangs, especially visible regarding Volapük or Tokipona. Esperanto is not the most easy to pronounce conlang, it is a balanced language with medium pronunciation difficulty. However, this enables the language to serve for any purpose, while some conlangs cannot do this with the same ease or at all.

  • @ulrikof.2486

    @ulrikof.2486

    4 ай бұрын

    Esperanto is globally accessible today. And English, the globally most used auxlang, is phonetically not easier (it has 12 phonemic vowels, Esperanto has five), its grammar is 50 times more complex, and it has one of the worst orthographies of the world. We have seen more than 2000 auxlangs created between 1850 and today. Many tried to make easier auxlangs than Esperanto. They failed, because the langs being really easier to learn have reduced sound systems and reduced vocabulary, making them incapable to meet the requirement: being the same expressive as the most expressive natural languages are. Esperanto can do that while saving a lot of learning time. Languages saving you even more learning time, like, Basic English or Tokipona, cannot. And langs like Interlingua are essentially simplified Spanish and thus even way more non-neutral than Esperanto without delivering any advantage to Asian people.

  • @user-wh9fp1hw9r
    @user-wh9fp1hw9r4 ай бұрын

    世界语啊不是英语吗

  • @samideano161_official
    @samideano161_official4 ай бұрын

    I think Esperanto lacks power because some of our espersnto speakers aren't active. If you are wondering why Christianity spreads and so as islam because the followers are active. If only we Esperantists are more active. Not only learning the language but also promoting it.

  • @ashkenaze
    @ashkenaze4 ай бұрын

    I guess learrning Klingon is much more fun; or Tolkien's elvish language, which is more beautiful.

  • @ulrikof.2486

    @ulrikof.2486

    4 ай бұрын

    Still, both languages have very few speakers, and way less than Esperanto. Elbish langs, and specially Sindarin, show a severe mismatch between popularity (and Sindarin's preferred script type, Tengwar, the most beautiful alphabet ever) and real usage as a means of communication between fans. Most fans like to talk _about_ it, mainly in English, but not by using it.

  • @erixoliver
    @erixoliver2 ай бұрын

    I always say this in videos like this one, but I'm sure the major problem of Esperanto is the lack of good content. Like, where are the movies in Esperanto? Where are the games? The animes? The vlogs? For god's sake, where's the fcking p0rn in Esperanto?!?!?! People talk too much about Esperanto, but don't actually use the language to make things that the younger generation is going to enjoy. Most books in Esperanto are stuff written more than a century ago, young people just don't care about that. My only use for Esperanto as for now is listening to a channel that narrates creepypasta, Kolekto de Herkso. That's the type of media we need to promote the language.

  • @erixoliver

    @erixoliver

    2 ай бұрын

    Create fun content in the language, so maybe people will find a use for it.

  • @keacoq
    @keacoq5 ай бұрын

    Nobody. Because nobody speaks it out of necessity.

  • @Katokoda

    @Katokoda

    4 ай бұрын

    What?

  • @Katokoda

    @Katokoda

    4 ай бұрын

    @@cuddles1767 where do you get that info from?

  • @killerkraut9179

    @killerkraut9179

    3 ай бұрын

    I think there arent much rational reasons to lern Esperanto ! I think that Esperanto speakers are hard to find ! Maybe even Latin speakers are more easy to find , most likely in academia and catholic churches ! I think Esperanto wouldnt be on a top 4 most rational languages to lern list! I think there are even not so much non rational reasons to lern it as well most languages are based of real cultures ,Esperanto hase just a subculture.