I appreciate that you debunk some myths and misconceptions, e.g. that Esperanto's useless because nobody speaks it. The latter is both false and not entirely relevant. However, I have to add something to your video. 1. It is true that learning a language is a boost in learning other languages, so it may be a good idea to learn a simple, "warm-up", "recorder" language. Still, this applies mostly to people who: a) have never learned a foreign language, or haven't done it for years, b) have learned languages, but they've never taught themselves one, so teaching themselves Esperanto may be a new experience. I guess you're in the second group -- you've learned Spanish, but it was not self-taught, so teaching yourself Eo may be a good warm-up for you in teaching yourself French. However, such warm-ups "to learn learning", or "to teach yourself teaching yourself", are pointless for people who are self-taught polyglots, like LingoSteve or Donovan Nagel from the Mezzofanti's Guild. They've been sceptical and critical of some esperantist claims; and it's a pity that you didn't add such a disclaimer. I post my further complaints in a separate comment, to keep the discussion tidy and to let some people comment on this point as quickly as possible.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

This is a well thought out comment, and it is true. Thanks for the feedback. (For more information, see Michael’s other posts lower in the comment section numbered 2-5.)

@michatarnowski580

5 жыл бұрын

@@FingtamLanguages Thanks for the heart and for the pinning. ♥ I'm feeling distinguished & appreciated. :-)

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

😊 Well, I don’t want to be dogmatic, so I often think it’s only proper to allow my viewers fair access to other opinions by pinning comments that disagree with me or add nuance to my statements.

@michatarnowski580

5 жыл бұрын

One more disclaimer: teaching yourself a "warm-up language" may be a good preparation for teaching yourself another language. But if someone's already learned a language with a teacher, then taking a class in Esperanto seems to be pointless. It won't teach the process of self-teaching or the process of learning a language in general. At best, it may be a brief revision of what the years-long process was like, squeezed in a year or so. But a similar effect can be reached by simply going back through old notebooks & textbooks -- for many people the language they learned (or at least, studied) is English, and for natve English speakers such languages are French (in the UK) or Spanish (in the US).

@ronaldonmg

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree with the "Still, this applies mostly to people who" part. Learning Esperanto AFTER "grammar school" I found that some things which puzzled me in French and German suddenly made sense, and it even improved my native Dutch

After being rather cynical about Esperanto for most of my life, at the age of 56 I have discovered how fascinating it is and how nice it sounds. I'm attempting to learn it slowly.

you're absolutely right about the fun being in how fast you learn it . I started learning EO in my junior year of high school (2013-2014 I think) because I was frustrated with how long it was taking me to learn Spanish (which I took all 4 years of HS) and I was blown away by how fast I was picking it up. I'd study it every day in the school library during lunch and could just FEEL myself getting better on a day to day basis. I ended up having better Esperanto in a few month period than I did Spanish after 3 years. It was intellectually exhilerating

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

OnesAndZeros Yep, I had a very similar experience. People just don’t understand until they’ve tried it.

I’m learning Esperanto just so I can speak at least one language. I studied French throughout all of primary and secondary school and ended up with a G at GCSE, the lowest possible grade at the time. After just a few months of Esperanto (on Duolingo) I’m way more confident in it than I ever was in French

I am so glad you did this video. I am so sick of the "why I won't learn Esperanto" videos.They are really kinda pointless and I wonder why people waste time recording why they won't learn it. if you don't want to learn it then don't. No one's going to cry if you don't want to learn Esperanto. This video actually helped me to keep going because I had given up. It's a fun video and helped remind me why I am learning and to keep learning. Thanks!

Esperanto opens your brain for foreign languages when you learn it at young age.

Great video. I just started teaching myself Esperanto last week, only dedicating about 30-45 mins per day to Duolingo. So far I love it. I can understand basic sentences, can form basic sentences and the grammar patterns are sooo much easier than English or Spanish, the other languages I speak. I think the world would be a better place if every school system taught Esperanto as the universal “second” language. Imagine being able to travel anywhere and speak with everyone in a common language.

The reason I'm learning Esperanto is because it's the only language I've ever tried that I haven't completely failed at lol

I know there are arguments against Esperanto but I loved this video. You made some very sensible comments and furthermore, why not learn something simply because it's fun?!

Polyglots recommend learning Esperanto, monoglots mock learning Esperanto. I once had someone accuse me of having it as my second language. I could correct them, it was my 4th one.

@Bahrta_sai

3 жыл бұрын

Do you actually speak all 4 languages fluently? Personally I think I would have a hard time remembering all vocabulary/grammar etc; of each language at the level where I could really speak all of them fluently as opposed to maybe the one I use the most.

@bernardkung7306

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bahrta_sai I had several years of formal instruction in French (highschool and university), and a few semesters of German at University; after a few weeks of self-study* in Esperanto, my grasp of Esperanto grammar surpassed my competence for both French and German. (An adequately broad vocabulary --despite Esperanto lexicon having mostly European rots-- did take a little longer... but reading just a couple of good-quality Esperanto novels helped immensely.) * the then popular (pre-Internet days) 10-Lesson Postal Course, graded by my German professor; less than 10 hrs of self study in Esperanto got me farther than 2 semesters of formal instruction + language lab in German.

@fanaticofmetal

2 жыл бұрын

@Joshua Moss *conlang

@willschryver

2 жыл бұрын

How is that an accusation?

@willschryver

2 жыл бұрын

@Joshua Moss and new radio programs every week!

ah.... yeah... I agree with everything that you said here 100%. Damn Esperanto is fun, and much easier than Latin, French or ancient Greek. I want to master it to give my quest to learn more languages more power.

I've been learning Esperanto for about 2-3 months and I absolutely love it! It's easy and I find it very elegant and I like that it is basically all the languages combined! I feel tempted to fuel that fire that L.L. Zamenhof started!

@daniellegriffin0286

5 жыл бұрын

Cool I’m learning too! Mi estas nur komencanto.

@MarkEmperor

3 жыл бұрын

Vi lernas Esperanton? Mojosa! Mi lernas Esperanto kaj amas la lingvon. Kio pri vin? Cu vi amas Esperanton?

I was first exposed to Esperanto by watching "Incubus" with William Shatner. I think it was the first film ever made where everyone had to speak Esperanto. I was intrigued by the story and the odd language used. I always meant to learn it but now that I'm "acquiring" Spanish, it'll have to wait for now but I will learn it eventually.

I learned what Esperanto was a about a week ago and fell in love with the idea immediately. It makes so much sense as a Universal language to me because it only exists as a person's second language. Very few people learn it in their babbly human phase. I was putting off studying it though cause I've been busying myself with other shit, but this video has made me start developing a schedule for myself. I've never used a schedule planner in my life.

Just watched it, I loved his points. But I gotta say I wouldn't say that Esperanto is ''easy peasy'' Instead I put it as Simpler than other languages. There is a huge difference between forming some sentences and Understanding nuances and Making more complex sentences.

@Bahrta_sai

3 жыл бұрын

Right. for example I have an issue with their being multiple words for things that only need one word & only have one word in other language For example: plaĝo/strando for beach, razeno/gazono/herbotapiŝo for lawn, etc. I understand why they were created but not why there isn't some effort to pick one word & stick with it. For me it calls in to question the claim I've always heard that you only need to learn about 600 unique words, & can largely rely on compounds & affixes from there. Having said that I do still support Esperanto, & I do think it's easier to learn than other languages. I just don't think it's as easy as it's sometimes advertised to be.

@Bahrta_sai

3 жыл бұрын

The biggest issue I see with Esperanto is that "immersion" isn't really possible since Esperanto isn't an official language in any country, although there was an attempt at one time. lookup "Neutral Moresnet".

@ronaldonmg

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bahrta_sai For immersion we have international meetings "renkontiĝoj". Typical congresses last a week. Courses of 2 or even 3 weeks are offered by Herzberg, Gresillon and NordAmerika SomerKursaro. Check www.eventoj.hu

@Bahrta_sai

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldonmg I know about them although I thought they were called "kongresoj". It's still not the same as living in a country where you are surrounded by people who only speak that language & must learn it to get around in the country.

I agree. I am interested in learning Esperanto and toki pona simply because it's fun and interesting.

Thanks for the Esperanto at a glance table, it explained a lot to me. I'm a language nerd too but, unfortunately, my enthusiasm for languages is greater than my linguistic skills. I've been studying Dutch for the last few years and, much to my surprise, I've managed to get my Dutch up to nearly A2 level. So, as I now feel more confident about my language skills, I'm now starting to learn Esperanto too.

I began to casually learn a little Esperanto in early 2016, and inconsistently dabbled with it from time to time. A couple months ago I began to buckle down and do my Duo Lingo lessons regularly. I am having a great time with it and look forward to becoming fluent and proficient.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! It's a great language, especially for those who have never studied other languages before. It's so much fun!

I appreciate your comments - and my contribution is: .... I speak several languages - none of them an Asian language. I have met some Koreans who - surprise surprise... spoke Esperanto. They learned Esperanto quickly so they could communicate asap with Europeans for a trip they were going to make. This got me into learning Esperanto also. I don't even know if I am capable of learning Korean - and certainly not quickly. For the small amount of time it takes to learn it to a useful level (a few weeks at most) it opens the door by virtue of being a great auxiliary language. So it fulfills its destiny and doesn't "waste" much time at all. It also helped me understand indirect objects in Russian... So Esperanto comprehension is a really useful tool for me. Thanks for your post.

Esperanto is one of the best ideas ever. Shame that all the schools don't teach it.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, have you seen the Ted talk where they are trying to get it implemented in grade school curricula?

@alibobsmarland9572

5 жыл бұрын

No but a great idea. Everyone just learns the one extra language to communicate with everyone. I dabbled a year ago and might go back to it.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Check out this video. It’s a cool idea. kzread.info/dash/bejne/apuHo82Of6jSo8o.html

@alibobsmarland9572

5 жыл бұрын

@@FingtamLanguages I have seen this video before. I remember how nervous the chap seemed!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Lol yeah. He had one too many coffees that morning, but his message is great!

I normally hardly understand American English and I haven't used this language often since I finished school for 20 years ago. But I understand you, I'm very surprised. Under a lot of years, I didn't want to speak English, but now I think it's cool to listen to you.

So much Fun..So much Fun.. I'm learning Polish which is taxing and hard, and often Frustrating..Esperanto helps to keep me motivated, if nothing more..:D its fun dang it !

You just answered my question on why learn Esperanto. Sounds like great for building language skills and probably the worlds easiest language for individuals to become fluent in. Maybe someday that maybe the international language that supersedes English. Sounds like the Esperanto community might have a brotherhood or sisterhood to it or some kind of built in comraderie kind of like CrossFit has.

@amuzulo

5 жыл бұрын

Parag Shah Esperanto is the CrossFit of languages? Never thought of that, but I kinda like it! 😄

I have been learning Esperanto for a few months now and I really enjoy it. It's nice to feel thst one is progressing even with minimal effort.

i just love languages

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

You and me both!

I decided to learn Esperanto thanks!!

I just started learning Esperanto on Duolingo last week and I'm surprised how much I remember and understand already.

Reason 2 is underestimated ahahahaha Yes, I was absolutely amazed to see my fast progress. I binged a lot of Esperanto videos when I was interested in learning it, and just a few weeks later I could come back to the same videos, see the comments, and ACTUALLY understand what everybody was saying!

I speak spanish,English.Learning Esperanto.I'm from Azerbaijan.Saluton al ĉiuj!

Yeah, I would say learning Esperanto for 20 hours is as effective as learning Spanish for 100 hours and German for 150 hours!

@thethrashyone

9 ай бұрын

Except German and Spanish both have real-world, authentic cultures and and hundreds of years of history behind them. The Esperanto "community" has no real culture, it's just a bunch of nerds circlejerking over their esoteric hobby, no different from any other fandom.

I've been watching your videos for a while and somehow missed the fact that you have a channel in Esperanto - I'd have subscribed to that ages ago! Still, I have plenty to catch up on now :) I get a bit lazy with Esperanto, as I've found depsite only learning it for a matter of weeks in the first place, I can go months without using the language at all and then it somehow all comes back to me when I want to use it again. You've inspired me to dust off my copy of La Hobito though, it's about time I finished that. :) All the best!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Glad I could be an inspiration for you to get back into Esperanto! How long have you been learning?

Dude you’ve sold me on this! Thanks man! Opening up Duolingo now! 🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Do it man! You won’t be sorry!

I have ambivalent feelings, I came here as sort of anti-Esperanto cause I feel like it contains too many words that root from Latin which makes it sort of unfair considering the fact that it's supposed to be the language of equal opportunities since it's a conlang. On the other hand though up until the end of the video you totally got me into Esperanto, I felt psyched to learn it but by the end of the video I started questioning whether I could ever use this knowledge or if I even liked the language. Nonetheless I might try it, the vibrant, helpful and wholesome community of Esperanto seems to be something really appealing.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah man, I would recommend giving it a try! Even if you try it for just a few weeks and then decide you don’t like it, it will still be a fun experiment.

@spelcheak

5 жыл бұрын

That just makes it *maybe* easier for someone familiar with those roots, not harder for anyone. Just look at Oomoto for example.

@DTux5249

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's so easy. Not like you'll have anything to lose.

@levigriffin5553

5 жыл бұрын

Don't Tread On Me (fellow Libertarian here) I understand what you mean in regards to the Latin roots and the Eurocentricity that is baked into the structure of the language, but the same can be said of English, which is the current lingua franca of the digital world. I would assert that Esperanto fulfills this role better than English, and the Latin roots comes from the fact that Zamenhoff wanted specifically European residents to come to a greater mutual understanding through a common second language. Given the European dominance of the world at the time the language was created, this makes a good deal of sense. Wars could have been avoided if people understood each other more fully across international borders. I can say as well that Esperanto is not much trouble at all for non-European language speakers to acquire as compared to English and may have an even greater benefit as an "introductory" language to other European languages.

@kanybichi

5 жыл бұрын

Something I've noticed is that this argument about Esperanto being too eurocentric, although real, is actually not that big of a deal considering you can get around with 400 rootwords. If vocabulary was the reason for the simplicity of Esperanto not many people in Asia or Africa would speak it (And it wouldn't be easy, as a matter of fact). The simplicity of Esperanto comes from its grammar, which is actually much more similar mainly to Chinese and Turkish, as well as many other languages around the world.

On Duolingo, from zero it took me about 5 months (about 10-15 minutes a day) to get to a comfortable conversational level in Esperanto (a B1 level, according to language teachers that talked with me). That is incredible - no other living language can be learned as fast. I literally use that language every week (some weeks, every day) to speak with new EO friends around the world. Anyone who says you can't speak to anyone - or anyone you might want to talk to - has no idea. The Esperanto community is worldwide. You won't be able to speak to everyone in a particular country because you know Esperanto, but you can talk to your own community of people in every country.

Wow, it's like you took all the words right out of my mouth. We're also on the same linguistic plane apparently; started learning #Esperanto at the same time (I was out hiking the weekend Duolingo Esperanto came out, but I was on it as soon as I was back in civilization!) and because of Esperanto started learning French afterwards. Great video.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for commenting! I’m glad to have another Esperantist on my channel!

I just started this week. Your correct, it's fun and motivating for sure

Alrighty then! Awesome, I wish you much success! Thank you for making a clear point. It is an enjoyable language.👍

Just stumbled on this video. I am so tempted to spend some time learning esperanto to an intermediate level. I already speak Spanish and Italian so it can't be that hard I guess. Looks fun!

that ZAZA got me speaking Esperanto

I am learning Esperanto , because i have seen if you will learn this language than it will help you to learn other languages also , in case if someone is planing to learn a 2nd language after that . Also you will get a hell of a confidence after being fluet on a language just after 2 months. Where i guess languages like chinese mandarin take 2-3 years for being fluent . And i dont care what politics is present in this language, like a lot of people have saud me that it's a political language i shouldn't have to learn it . But i am still gonna learn it , dont care the political things everyone said about

❤💙💚❤💙💚💯😊I love this and will dedicate 6 months to learning this beautiful language. It's cool and very fun. Thank you for inspiring me and sharing this video. Now I know I'm not alone.

*Really* cool video. You made it such fun and informative to watch.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Dankon! :)

Gratulon al vi por la videon! Esperanto estas tre facila helplingvo lernabla. Dankon kara amiko kaj ĝis

Man I love your title, keep going to learn some languages!

Very interesting video yeah I'm learning french right now and I'm improving a lot and I now think I might learn Esperanto in the future because it's sounds fun as hell!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you should totally try it. Esperanto is a good time!

It's definitely true that the Internet has been a boost for Esperanto. I learned the language over thirty years ago but was seldom able to use it, except for reading books. Now I use it every day and there are even local meetings again, thanks to Duolingo. I haven't used pasporta servo but I have used Amikumu to connect with locals when traveling. I speak some French and continue to study it, but my French never really helped me to make any friends. But Esperanto opens do, socially. A few years ago, Esperanto enabled me to pass a pleasant afternoon with new friends in Dublin, where I was for a weekend in a conference. Obviously I didn't need Esperanto to communicate but speaking it made the trip a much more memorable experience.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

ubizmo That is so crazy. I attended my first Esperanto meetup in Dublin last year. All the people were very kind, and I used the pasporta servo there as well.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Also, it is a very small world. About ten years ago, I was somewhat active on the mountain ocarina forums, and I remember you from there. Your videos always inspired me. Shocking to see you again in a completely unrelated arena.

Great video!

Hi! I am very happy that you have a channel favoring the lingual ideas. Some language nerds like us are neglected to a long extent. So, here, I was to ask that have you posted any video yet telling why you chose linguistics and what are the further career opportunities are to learn this? I really suggest if you haven't made a video on that then please do. It will really help people like me having an interest in languages but haven't thought of a perfect career line yet.

I started learning Esperanto, and I'm enjoying it. :)

@fitzburg63

Жыл бұрын

Kaj kiel progresas via lernado?

Bonvenon al Esperanto!

I posted on FB if I know any people speaking Esperanto. I have around a 1000 FB friends. NOONE speaks Esperanto. Won't stop me from learning it. Because it's fun. And yes, now that I started learning another new language (Swedish) I do notice the extreme difference in speeds of learning.

@paolomojosujo7524

4 жыл бұрын

I think what keeps me going is staying away from political/reform discussions and just reading/making memes, listening to music, chatting, learning on Wikipedia etc. Also, if you speak Esperanto that means that your 1000 FB friends now all have a FB friend who speaks Esperanto^^

Learned Eo now learning German, picking up German a whole lot easier thanks to EO. So there's that. Love EO BTW.

*except for maybe tokipona*

@devonoknabo2582

4 жыл бұрын

He said that

@WrulfWroar

3 жыл бұрын

Toki pona rules!!!

I started learning this language about a week ago

Hate hate hate!!!!! There you go, left you some. Nice video. I had French at school for 5 years and gave up because it was too difficult. I thought I wasn't good at languages. But then I moved to Poland and found Polish relatively easy to learn.

Your persistence is persuasive...lol!

Mi amas Esperanton. If you can read this.

I am a polyglot speaking 7 languages including Esperanto. I have learned it only because I believe no natural language should be chosen as a common global language . Every natural language has native speakers and this would give them an upper hand over the others who learn the language as a secondary language. There are some criticisms about Esperanto. Most of them are unfair but one of them is very reasonable and that is that Esperanto is a Eurocentric language and I must say this is a true drawback of Esperanto. I think the community of Esperanto must give an essential reform to the language and change some words with the words from other official languages of the world. At the moment there are 120 official languages across the world and Esperanto must have some words derived from all of them . Then we would be able to claim that Esperanto is a neutral language designed for all people of the world.

Yes. Esperanto is fun. I've never regret starting it in Duolingo.

Bonega video!. La mondo bezonas videojn kiel tiun. Dankon.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Dankon por la simpatika komento!

I forgot about esperanto reason being folks would talk bad about it and say no one speaks it, like Latin. But this video kinda got interested in it again. I might give it a try. It would be nice to ad another language into my library and not gaf about other opinions on why I should learn it.

I am planning to learn esperanto. I just started the duolingo course. What else can you recommend? My plan is to spend 6-12 months with esperanto, then move on to dutch.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

I definitely recommend looking up an Esperanto society near your city and attending as many meetings as possible. Also, try watching through the “Pasporto al la tuta mondo”. You can watch the whole series on KZread for free. It’s a little dumb, but educational.

Well for us who live in Europe Esperanto is a real thing. After Brexit it is incorporated into the official EU languages for the first time in history. English-out, Esperanto-in. Of course it will take a couple of years perhaps a decade or so to get hold of firm but it is a thing to recon with already not just a free time social game.

Thanks for sharing your advices 😍 I 'm also learning Esperanto and I find it very terrific and fun but the truth is I 'm very terrible when it comes to learning vocab I've got amnesia every time I learn a list of new words haha so please Can u give me suggestions about how can I learn vocabulary faster any app other than Duolingo 😍😍 keep up the good work

You've convinced me to dabble in Esperanto while I continue studying Swedish

@FingtamLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Mission accomplished, now you’re hooked! 😈 😜

Esperanto sounds beautiful I like Esperanto poems

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it’s a great language! :)

EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯

I learned Esperanto mostly for the propaedeutic value. I haven't used Esperanto for many years, but I do know it did help me with Spanish, Portuguese, Bisaya and some Icelandic. It paid off dividends, just like learning the languages after Esperanto are going to help with more in the future. Esperanto was even recommended in a Latin course I have from Power- Glide to become knowledgeable in as a practise hill, before climbing the Latin mountain. A minority language Ojibwe is a goal of mine and that has the agglutinative features like in Bisaya and Esperanto.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Glad to see Esperanto has helped you learn other languages! That’s sure a lot of languages you referenced here. How many languages do you speak?

@alanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Three, if I include my native tongue of English, the other two are Spanish and Portuguese. Bisaya was when I was visiting the Philippines, but only did it for basic conversation, I don't count it. Esperanto was about intermediate level, but that was many years ago, and I did not pursue it to advance level. The amount of creativity and ability to manipulate Esperanto was amazing. I started doing that with Spanish synonyms, descriptions and even pantomime to express myself. I no longer study vocabulary augmentation only one word at a time from a dictionary, I also study roots, and affixes. Icelandic I am currently studying using Pimsleur and the word no (ne) is the same as in Esperanto. I heard the word heim and immediately thought hejme in Esperanto. I just had to make sure they were not false cognates. If you look up agglutinative languages on wikipedia, it shows the many different language families that have that feature. It won't seem strange to anyone who already studied a language that has that, and I guess they already have their brain primed for it.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, agglutinations languages are interesting. I had to do a bit of study on that topic in my Syntax classes. How long ago has it been since you stopped learning Esperanto? I bet it would come back real quick, given how easy it is.

@alanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Over ten years, it will be eleven when it reaches February 2019. I found Esperanto as a stepping stone, I would like to review it again, but I still have to maintain Spanish and Portuguese. My interest in Bisaya waned once I was no longer in the Philippines to use it daily. Icelandic might wind up like that, if I am not able to use it daily. I listened to the word where (hvar) in Icelandic and it sounded like the word kvar in Esperanto. That was a false friend. In Esperanto that is the number four. That is a noticeable topic for people is maintaining languages after they have even reached conversational level. That varies with each person, due to different circumstances and opportunities in life.

Interesting, very well said. Thank you for your helpful info. From what I gathered-pertaining to Esperanto, it is not an official language and belongs to no known country. I did, however, see a few us states that have communities. I’m still curious the fact, but in what European, South American, and Asia countries is Esperanto spoken? Did start with lessons 1-3 and found it quite enjoyable, even though I speak German fluently. Keep up the good work.

@martjanamoon1785

2 жыл бұрын

It is spoken in virtually every country in the world, Esperanto isn't tied to borders. Judging by the countries the World Esperanto Congress took place in, I'd say the central-european states have big communities, especially Germany, Britain, France, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands and Hungary, where you can even get your degree with Esperanto at some schools. I also know about huge communities in China, Japan, Korea and Brazil. And the Republic of Molossia has Esperanto as one of their official languages.

I like your enthusiasm. I always wanted to learn a second language but common and easier languages such as Spanish, German or French never turned me on until I discovered Russian 9 months ago. Russian, as you know, is a hard language with cases where basically everything declines. You got normal conjugation, past tense, imperatives, and participles. It's tough and challenging but I like it. I wondering if going straight to a hard language with no warmup language isn't as beneficial. It sure does make other languages look easy though. If I had known this, I might have tried esperanto before trying Russian but now I work a lot and barely have enough time for Russian.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Well, if you ever get to a solid level in Russian, I would still recommend giving Esperanto a try, just for the fun of it and to see what it’s like! 😊

@JohnJohnson-ox3uc

5 жыл бұрын

Russian does have a significant influence on Esperanto, so you may find taking a side trip through Esperantoland may help more than might expect.

@Bahrta_sai

3 жыл бұрын

​@@JohnJohnson-ox3uc I get the impression that Esperanto's affix system is largely because of Russian or at least Slavic anyway, so Esperanto might be easier than you think to pick up. L L Zamenhoff who created was Polish but would have spoken Russian too. In Esperanto: Mi ricevas la impreson ke la afiksa sistemo estas ĉefa pro la Rusa aŭ almenaŭ la Slava ĉiukaze. L L Zamenhoff kiu kreis Esperanto, estis Pola sed li ankaŭ estus parolinta la Rusan. Using the Cyrillic alphabet (for pronunciation): Ми рицевас ла импресон ке ла афикса системо эстас чефа про ла Руса аў алменаў ла Слава чиуказе. Л Л Заменхоф киу крэис Эсперанто, эстис Пола сед ли анкаў эстус паролинта ла Русан.

Mi lernas esperanton, kaj mi amas la lingvo! Estas tre facila!

I was a skeptic for years. But have you ever met a native speaker? I finally have. Have you ever watched an 8-year old kid in Denmark pick up Esperanto on Duolingo and jam on it? I have. Have you ever seen a 5-year old kid in Japan dig on ‘Dek bovinoj’ and ‘Krokodilo en la Kavo’? I have. And a 9-year old too. Just do it. Or don’t. And see you later! (Oh yes, we will.)

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have been converted! :)

You have spurred me!

I'm gonna become fluent in esperanto I promise. I already speak english, spanish and Portuguese and I will learn esperanto now. Can you guys provide me content about this language?

Esperanto is fun! I’m just an esperanto learner browsing KZread for Esperanto videos I can practice comprehension from. Just passing through. I didn’t quite see all the words on your shirt though. I wanted to translate it for practice. What does it say?

@bernardkung7306

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it reads something along the line of: Se vi povas legi ĉi tion ... (on the back) ... mi jam ŝatas vin. [If you can read this... I already like you.]

I'm learning Toki pona now, I plan to learn esperanto after

@soweli3033

Жыл бұрын

Bro how was it?

The Esperanto community in my city isn't very active, but I'll consider learning Esperanto before I attend a polyglot event. From what I hear, a lot of people at those events converse in Esperanto with each other. I think I'll start with Book2, though, since I prefer to start languages with an audio course. With Book2, I can select my source and target languages and then download an audio phrase book as MP3 files.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, when I was at Langfest, there were people all over the place speaking Esperanto. I’ve never used book 2 before. Do you have a lot of experience with it?

@andymounthood

5 жыл бұрын

Not a lot of experience. I used it briefly when I was dabbling in Indonesian. Unlike Glossika, it doesn't include any repetition or transcripts in IPA, so I think I would use it in fewer situations. But it's my first choice for Esperanto courses so far. (You never know: Glossika or Language Transfer or another series I like could always publish an Esperanto course in the future.)

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Cool. You’ll have to let me know how you like it!

Saluton! I wasn't interested in the Movement part of Esperanto when I started learning it. I learned it because it was easy. I used to think that in order to learn a language you had to take classes and then live in the country for a number of months. This was years ago, before the internet was much of anything. But Esperanto was the exception. I studied Teach Yourself Esperanto for a few months and then showed up at the NYC Esperanto group meeting. After a few meetings, and lots of reading, I could understand and participate fully. So, I understand you live in Milwaukee. You're not far from our Esperanto group here in Madison. We meet the second Saturday of every month at Barrique's on Atwood Avenue, from 4-6 pm. Take 94 west to Madison, get on 30, turn left on Fair Oaks Avenue and continue to the end (Atwood Avenue). Turn right, and it's about four or five blocks on the right. There's no structure. We just hang out and gab. Ni babiladas. Gxis revido.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, that’s awesome! I would love to get involved with an Esperanto group here in Wisconsin. Do you have an email I can contact you at?

@scottpage6674

5 жыл бұрын

Mi metos mian retadreson cxi tie cxar mi ne scipovas sendi al vi mesagxon sen tio ke la tuta mondo gxin vidas. Do jen: swpage24@gmail.com.

Mi ĝojas ke vi eklernis Esperanton kaj faris tiun videon. Bonvenon al nia familio! Vi gajnis novan abonanton hodiaǔ!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Levi Griffin Dankon!

Hej, amiko! Could I have a look at the sources? I really want to read more about these researches

Mi lernas Esperanton pro vi.

Your impassioned speech has made me want to learn Esperanto retroactively in 2016! ;-) I agree that people are too quick to rain on others' parade when their interests are different: I can't imagine any "lingvemulo" that hasn't been asked by others: "Why are you learning THAT language? You'll never use it!" (This has happened to me even with such un-exotic languages as Italian)! Mi vidas, ke vi aludis al NASK 2019: ĉu tio signifas, ke vi jam decidis ĉeesti venontjare? Ĉu vi jam enagendigis la datojn? ;-)

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Mi me scias se mi povos, sed mi sxatus cxeesti!

@JorgeRafaelNogueras

5 жыл бұрын

Jen la unua, plej grava paŝo! :-) Mi memorigu vin, ke estas iom da subteno por plentempaj studentoj, do ne forgesu peti ĝin. :-)

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Dankon!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Dankon!

3. Easiness is relative. For a person with a manual disability, a recorder may be far more difficult than organ pedals. Similarily, the easiness of a language depends largely on how similar it is to languages known so far by the learner. It's impossible to design a language which has a maximum simplicity for any background, because languages of the world are too diverse in their vocabulary and grammar - at least nowadays (I mean, in the recorded history). There are some similarities in phonology, and in fact there is enough of them to point out or to construct a nearly-universal phonology, which is rich enough to have a whole, usable language. Some Polynesian languages and Toki Pona are close to this - but even they have some non-universal elements. E.g. TP has 5 vowels, while some languages (like Arabic) have only 3; and TP has 9 consonants, while some some languages (like Rotokas) have only 6. And there is probably no language in the world which combines both simplicities, i.e. has both 3 vowels and 9 consonants. Also, there are different 3-vowel systems - there are no 3 universal vowels; and among the 6 consonants of Rotokas, also not all of them are univeral. So this shows how relative "simplicity" is and how difficult it is for a language to be universally simple. I show off with these linguistic curiosities to prepare for a more specific criticism of some esperantist claims. If Eo is a recorder of languages, then linguistics may be a recorder of anti-esperantism. Eo's vowel system is forgivable, i.e. it's a sensible compromise, especially for a language which is deliberately eurocentric by design; at least if you ignore the diphthongs. However, Eo's constant system and phonotactics (the set of possible syllables) are simply awful. They were completely bashed and ridiculed by linguists and conlangers like the Conlang Critic (here on KZread), Justin B. Rye or Geoff. Also, this complication of Eo is completely reduntant if you take it as an introduction to French or to any other Romance language. In fact this failed phonology is completely reduntant also for learning Germanic languages, at least the most common ones -- which lack the notorius [x]-[h] distinction, three to four affricates, and hundreds of consonant clusters. The most widely spoken language which *used to be* compatible with Eo's phonology is probably... Polish - surprise, the mother tongue of Zamenhof. However, 130 years later Polish no longer has the [x]-[h] distinction, and even as a very consontantal language it may still lack some monstrous clusters of Eo. So yeah, having Eo as a possible warm-up is better than having nothing for that purpose, but I find it very biased and misleading to ignore such deep flaws. This alleged "universal easiness" and "genius" of Eo was one of the esperantist myths that I believed as a teenager, and I feel essentially lied to by esperantists who drove me into believing and repeating these myths. This is not very encouraging for someone who looks for a world-wide language diaspora. Maybe learning Klingon or Ithkuil would be better for that purpose - at least their users don't advertise these languages as very easy, and don't compare them only to the most common languages (like esperantists like to). I don't mind anyone learning any language, even a language designed for a debatable purpose and in an amateur way. However, I *do* mind the propagation of esperantist myths which somehow recruit and indoctrinate innocent people unaware of the language's flaws.

66 years old and I want to learn

This language is obviously easy to learn for a non-european learner like me... So much fun...

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's a great language!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Have you already tried learning Esperanto?

@JanuarArifin92

5 жыл бұрын

@@FingtamLanguages Jes, mi lernis ghin dum 2 monatoj, kaj mi tre shatis chi tion lingvon.

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Mojosa! Cxu vi vidis mian alian kanalon? kzread.info/dron/21NBss-ioqoDpvZsKl5niw.html

People bring up its Eurocentric. Yeah it is I mewn dude was European. Irony a ton of speakers are Chinese.

Dankon pro la video.

I was learning it and at the begging it eas so easy but I quit when the suffix, affix and prefifix apeared and make things hard and confuse.

YoU sHoUlD nOt LeArN eSpErAnTo Joke I love Esperanto keep up the good work 👍

5. Last but not least: even if you accept the limited and sometimes repelling Eo culture, it has further drawbacks, like its geographical distribution. Eo is an entirely diaspora language, like Romani or Yiddish -- that is, its not a dominant language anywhere. There is no part of the world where Eo (or Romani, or Yiddish) enables you to talk to anyone you wish. Yes, there are speakers of these languages all over the world, and you can go on trips to meet your friends who speak it. However, if you don't know the dominant language of your destination, you're largely dependent on your hosts. It may become a bit of a problem if something happens to them or if you fall into a disagreement with them. And if you do know the dominant language of the destination, then the minority language (like Eo, Romani, or Yiddish) is no longer necessary and only spices up the trip. I know that this is not a decisive argument against learning such languages, but it is a factor for some polyglots, especially those who like travelling. LingoSteve has raised this point.

Vivu la Esperanto

nice canal

Mi amas vin!

@FingtamLanguages

5 жыл бұрын

Dankon!

Finfine, estas lingvisto kiu stare subtenas Esperanton!

Bonan nokton amiko! Ĉu vi estas instruisto de Esperanto? Mi studas la lingvo. Por min estas tre bona! Mi tre ŝatas, nun mi studas la hispanan ankaŭ kkkk. Gratulon por la videon

Gostar de fazer algo, já é um excelente motivo para fazê-lo. Obrigado pelas informações!

I ain't hating on ya. Yet, I am kinda scared to learn more Esperanto, cause I am brown skinned. I feel like brown and black Americans feel more pressured to unite with Spanglish, or Spanish. If we step outta that norm, it's like we're almost a black sheep of eitha' one family, or anotha. But, I can relate grammatically to Esperanto a little more than to Spanglish. What should I stick a bit more to?

@sharonoddlyenough

3 жыл бұрын

Moses McCormick (laoshu50500) was a pioneer on KZread in breaking that stereotype.

It's been a long time. Are you still alive? How is your Esperanto now?

@FingtamLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yes! You can follow my Esperanto progress on my other KZread Channel, Fingtam Esperanto

you might inspiert my to learn it

Esperanto is not so easy : it is perfectly regular (all plurals, past tenses, possessives, adverbs of manner ... have the same endings added) but as in all languages there are idiomatic expressions to learn by rote and arbitrary choices are made whether a verb for a movement or a state of mind will be passive, active or reflexive. As in English but contrary to French, being born is a passive verb but dying is an active one.