He basically read the Wikipedia article and said it

@kenzo8096

6 жыл бұрын

That explains why it kinda dragged on a little...

@joelmiller2601

6 жыл бұрын

ok

@nu1s

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, kind of started to catch up on that a few minutes in by how he spoke. Exactly like a kid reading a book out loud in school.

@NUSORCA

5 жыл бұрын

Zach Arbogast “watch today I found out on Wikipedia”

@yorathfenwick1800

5 жыл бұрын

No emotion in words.

I don't like the word "fail" because if it has really failed, it would not exist today even , but it does ... so it's neither a fail nor a victory. But I agree, it's goal isn't reached.

@maximhamley6662

6 жыл бұрын

The goal isn't reached, nor will it ever be, so *it has failed*

@GhostyGhost7007

6 жыл бұрын

max hamley It's original purpose has failed, but it's found its place in the world.

@arnaud7897

6 жыл бұрын

Who knows its futur ? Nothing is sure, and now things change (there is internet, ...) and with the the amount of speakers is increasing

@maximhamley6662

6 жыл бұрын

Rrealistically, it's amount of speakers will increase, it will never reach it is goal

@amemabastet9055

6 жыл бұрын

The goal that Esperanto would soar and spread throughout the whole world has been reached as far as I'm concerned. No, it's not spoken by everybody. But that Final Goal was something that the early speakers dreamt about. Nowadays we don't have such megalomaniac dreams. We only wish people would know that Esperanto exists, is used and that it works very well for those who use it. If the measure of anything is that exactly every human being should do something, then breathing, eating, sweating and excrementing is the thing that truly unites us. Not even the so called World Languages are spoken by everybody.

- Actually the Jews in Bialystok spoke Yiddish not Polish. - There are more than 2,000 native speakers of Esperanto - Esperanto certainly has a culture, it has thousands of books, songs, videos, events etc

@rapn21

7 жыл бұрын

Esperanto is that as well. I just felt it was easy to highlight the tangible elements of culture rather than the more abstract and subjective parts.

@rapn21

7 жыл бұрын

It is nothing like a religious cult, that's completely false.

@rapn21

7 жыл бұрын

It has nothing in common with a religion. It has none of the features or beliefs of a religion. Esperanto doesn't propose any belief in the supernatural, afterlife, miracles, God etc. What could possibly make you think it is like a religion?

@rapn21

7 жыл бұрын

But it does require some sort of believe in the supernatural

@rapn21

7 жыл бұрын

If a religion is just a community, then every association, political party, book club, hobby group, sports club etc is a religion. It's impossible to have a religion without some sort of belief in the supernatural.

My experience: Once in the university canteen I found a folder which explained on just 4 small pages the morphology (declension, conjugation) of Esperanto words and all the prefixes and suffixes. I was impressed, for I had learned a bit of Latin at school and knew that by Latin morphology you can fill entire books. No exceptions and a free use of all the prefixes and suffixes to form new words wherever this makes sense. So I borrowed a textbook and started studying it two hours per day. Two weeks later I was able understand the Esperanto transmissions of a Polish radio station. After a few years (without speaking Esperanto, just reading Esperanto books and listened to the radio), I participated in the Esperanto jubilee congress 1987 in Warsaw. This was an exciting experience: 6000 participants from 73 countries, and to be on part with all of them, without the feeling of inferiority I have when speaking with (e.g. English) native speakers in their language. So from time to time I took part in other meetings of Esperanto speakers. Later I experienced the propaedeutic value of having learned Esperanto - it helped me to improve my knowledge of English and to learn (up to different grades) some other languages (Italian, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch). So, even without having become "the universal language", Esperanto can be an enrichment of your life and a door to other cultures. And please do not believe the people who discredit Esperanto by claiming it to be "an artificial language" instead of a "natural" one or to lack an own culture. All languages are products of culture (by the way: they are the most notable product and instrument of human culture!), and it does in no way harm to this quality if the genesis of a language is accompanied by a more intelligence planning than usual.

@electricairways

Жыл бұрын

I know a little bit of latin, so when i tried esperanto I recognized some words and knew what they meant without actually being taught what it meant.

To anyone who reads comments before watching the video, I *strongly* recommend you watch at 1.5x-2x speed. The video *is* interesting, but he just talks so... damn... *slow!*

@caseinnitrate5515

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Hagadone thx it worked

@nicolainrregaard4819

6 жыл бұрын

The speed is fine, you just have shit attention span.

@catguy5425

6 жыл бұрын

Nicolai Nørregaard While I may have a short attention span due to Autism, you must admit that the guy in the video talks too slow for most people.

@ManishaTulaskar

6 жыл бұрын

i just wanna say... Thank you Sir :D :P

@ZeldaFeb

6 жыл бұрын

I'm using x2

You seem to be missing the point of a universal second language. A common language does not need a country or a culture backing it, all it needs is the need for communication. While nationalistic authorities got in the way in the past, the internet and social media is driving the need for a universal language. English fills that role for now, but English has it's problems. English in it's most basic form is complicated and messy, but it is now developing into several sub groups. English also has a worldwide history of conquest from the English Empire and the United States. Esperanto is simple and structured, and it has no history of warfare and conquest. That is where having no country and culture is an advantage, the language is fresh and new for everyone, no history, no advantage. Also, you are centuries too early to ask the question, Esperanto was meant to slowly grow with use.

@johnreid7712

7 жыл бұрын

The tide is just as surely turning for the English language, I have no trouble imagining students 100 years from now saying, "English is a dead, dead language. It killed the British Empire and now it's killing me!" Seriously though, the number of Esperanto speakers in Europe seems to have reached a high enough number that groups have formed that use Esperanto to speak about and actually do things other than teaching and learning Esperanto (and presumably other languages to). So it certainly hasn't failed yet. "Slow and steady wins the race".

@F4NEX

6 жыл бұрын

justme2623

@patrickeh696

6 жыл бұрын

justme2623, your theory has been falsified.

@johnhooyer3101

6 жыл бұрын

From my observations of history, in order for a language to become widely spoken there has to be a certain "prestige" value to it, and it has to be associated with authority. Due to the British Empire and American global dominance, English has those associations. It will only grow as India eventually becomes the most populous country in the world. In order to get a substantial number of speakers, Esperanto needs not only a culture, but a prestigious culture. You need an Esperantist KJV, Shakespeare, Locke, Hobbes, Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Shelley, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Samuel Clemens, Hemingway, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Seuss, Orwell, Bradburry, Asimov, Harper Lee, Disney, Elvis, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, John Williams, and Spielberg. And French had writers like Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Rousseau, Jules Verne, Sartre, (and more recently) Elie Wiesel going for it. Italian had the Renaissance and opera to its name. Latin was and is the language of the Catholic Church and bore association with the accomplishments of the Roman empire, Julius Caesar. and formed the base of many other languages. You need more than just culture. You need a lot of prestige to go with it. You need the language to have been present in major cultural revolutions and turning points in history. You need all of that, and a language that some people speak as a hobby, who don't have the opportunity to get together very often, isn't likely to ever have that sort of presence and sense of value. Additionally, the irregular natural languages tend to have more emotion conveyed through their irregularities. Also, Esperanto isn't as culturally neutral as it claims, using Polish phonology and completely European vocabulary, and there are other languages such as Toki Pona and Lojban which remain far more culturally neutral (the former of which is also even more regular an logical than Esperanto).

@sluggo206

6 жыл бұрын

David Crystal the linguist has some fascinating videos on worldwide English. The majority of English speakers live in non-English speaking countries. Each country is developing its own brand of English: vocabulary not understood outside the country, accent influenced by local language, etc. Soon these Englishes may become as important as British, American, Australian, etc. In 1500 people thought English wouldn't amount to anything and didn't have any great literature. Oops, Shakespeare came a bit later and the British Empire, and then worldwide English. Who knows what English will be like in a hundred years. Will it still be dominant? Will it split into non-mutually-intelligible languages? Who knows?

I think there's an argument to be made that Esperanto's growth has stalled a bit in recent times, but it definitely hasn't seen a significant *decline* in use. Claiming that Esperanto has failed is like saying a tree is dead because it only grew two inches last year. A universal language is not going to be accepted overnight, no matter how great it is. We'll have to wait (probably for a very long time) before we can make a call on the ultimate success of Esperanto.

@gabrielonibudo5710

6 жыл бұрын

because it never had a significant amount in use in the first place lol

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, all the evidence from online sites is that it's exploding in growth. There are over 1.5 million people on Duolingo alone learning Esperanto, and those are only the people who know enough English or Spanish to use the site. There are many thousands more on Lernu! who are learning via other languages.

@billybobjoe198

6 жыл бұрын

Well considering how fucking confusing who, what, when, where, why, how is in Esperanto, I don't many people are going to want to learn it. According to google translate the word what changes based on sentence context. Convoluted as fuck for "the simplest language". Making parts of speech all end in the same letter doesn't simplify a language. for someone with a single day of education in the language being able to identify nouns they don't know doesn't help. Anyone who speaks the language will be able to tell a noun from a verb just by context. It missed the boat entirely on what makes a language easy. You might as well just make Latin the global language over Esperanto. At least that has some historical appeal.

@lucascabrellibr

4 жыл бұрын

@@billybobjoe198 wtf was your comment?

@billybobjoe198

4 жыл бұрын

@@lucascabrellibr Sorry for bad English, I speak Esperanto natively,

I'm learning it because it's supposedly helps you learn other languages. I'd like to speak multiple languages, and Esperanto seems really easy to understand! But the problem is that there isn't much motivation for me since not many people speak it.

@Max_Jacoby

6 жыл бұрын

Weird motivation... Unless you are going to learn dozens of languages there's no need to learn Esperanto just for the sake of easier transition to language you really want to learn.

@ghenulo

6 жыл бұрын

Really? The motivation for me to continue learning was how much I had already learned.

@ghenulo

6 жыл бұрын

Do you really think German is easy, Ad? LMAO!

@billybobjoe198

6 жыл бұрын

For an English speaker learning German is about as easy as learning Spanish. English is a special language built upon Germanic and Latin roots. So we go into German already knowing the base of many words. Polish is interesting for a slavic language because of how much latin is actually included in it. English being a powerhouse of a language has crept into most modern languages though. Lots of newer words are just localizations of the English word.

@SalamandersRCool

6 жыл бұрын

Blazertron where are you learning it? I'm kinda interested.

Just because it didn't become the universal language doesn't mean that it is dead. Period.

Actually Esperanto is a GROWING language, there are millions of Esperanto speakers in the world. Annually we have many Congresses on many countries. Last month we had one here in my city Curitiba - Brazil. Also we already had even a government project to put esperanto in the public schools. It didn't succeeded, but hey, it was an attempt. This shows its importance. Esperanto will be the World second language in the future (the native language being the first). Do you know why will it be? Because its a fraternal language, it unites the people. The world is evolving. The globalization came in less than a century, its so little time. A language takes hundreds of years to take its place. And yet there is another and BIGGER reason for the future world language: Esperanto came in the right and perfect time, not just because Zamenhof, behind him we have many many people working on it. Where? In our true country that is the spiritual world. We can't even imagine the size of the organization on the other side so we can have our lives and our tasks here. They (the elevated spirits) teach the language there so we (the not so evolved spirits kkk) can communicate better each other. The providence is the main supporter of the Esperanto. ... I won't list here the many advantages of learning esperanto ... ask uncle google ;-) So it didn't fail, its correctly in its time. The more globalized world we have, the more esperantits it will have.

Wow, before I watched this video I was completely indifferent to Esperanto, now I totally want to learn it. Mostly because all the governments that were against it's spread were bad people. Nazis didn't like Esperanto? That alone makes me want to use it and help it spread.

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

Duolingo is an excellent place to learn, assuming you know English or Spanish. Another good system is Lernu, especially if someone does not speak English or Spanish, since it has courses in many other languages.

@user-wl2qh2wb2r

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, it's a really good language to learn when you're just starting out. since it doesn't take that long to learn if you're a native english speaker. also super helpful to use as a fictional language if you're a writer, cause that's what i do. :P

@Acetronomy

Жыл бұрын

@@user-wl2qh2wb2r ooh wait i never thought of that!! i wouldnt say fictional, more just another language to add that language barrier which can make for an interesting story.

@haq248

Ай бұрын

Makes me want to learn it less

I use Esperanto every day of my life in some way or other. I read novels and poetry originally written in the language . I listen to songs in the language.. I collaborate with other users in different parts of the world. I have visited and been visited by many Esperantists. I use it on line every day. Although Esperanto has not become everybody’s second language, in no way is it a failure. I like to think of it as a success in the making.

i think what you gonna say is how esperanto failed to be a primary language of the world. not an international laguage which is, in most cases, an secondary language.

Esperanto is cool and easy to pick. No ideaology needed. Justa need for fun and curiousity.

My native idiom is Portuguese! That is so easy to me have learn esperanto because of the Latin root! I can't understand and believe that unfortunately this language are dying today!

@arisaka233

6 жыл бұрын

Nicolly Farao ok nobody cares

@storm___

6 жыл бұрын

Nicolly Farao because an international language is retarded. Basically trying to get rid of all our cultures

@brunor.1127

6 жыл бұрын

OI irmão lusitano ou Hu3

@abouttogiveyasomefacts5574

6 жыл бұрын

Dame Desu you know it will either merge or one language will dominate

@Duconi

6 жыл бұрын

It's sad that Esperanto wasn't an success as world language. It would be much easier than to learn English at school. I think English is a good candidate for a world language. It will maybe change to an easier version as a global language. There are some regional differences that should be fixed. Maybe some day we are looking at English speaking Countries like Kanada, Scotland and Australia and build a world language out of their dialects.

Zamenhof had three goals, as he wrote in Unua Libro: "To render the study of the language so easy as to make its acquisition mere play to the learner." "To enable the learner to make direct use of his knowledge with people of any nationality, whether the language be universally accepted or not; in other words, the language is to be directly a means of international communication." "To find some means of overcoming the natural indifference of mankind, and disposing them, in the quickest manner possible, and en masse, to learn and use the proposed language as a living one, and not only in last extremities, and with the key at hand."[

@mistershivers8887

4 жыл бұрын

I have accomplished all 3 of these goals with esperanto with people that knew no english

I wanted to respond specifically to the bit about culture. The wonderful thing about esperanto is that it opens you up to all the cultures of the world, not just one. You can go to Spain, meet with esperantists who are local there, and have them show you the culture from the inside. The next week, you could do that in Uruguay or Somalia or France or Bulgaria. Where-ever you travel, you can find local esperantists. Because it IS a language you have to CHOOSE to learn, the community is all enthusiastic to meet others. I have found it to be a wonderful bridge to many cultures.

@slavianalbanovich9025

2 жыл бұрын

But you can use english.

@NewsFlashStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@slavianalbanovich9025 but english hurts my brain. Why the hell does: though, through, bough, enough, cough, and rough have to sound different.

@Acetronomy

Жыл бұрын

@@slavianalbanovich9025 Not everyone speaks English. Theres Esperantists who dont have English as a second language, hence the point: universal language. Though i think at the moment its more universal culture, like the original commenter mentioned, it opens so many doors to new cultures that you can't get if you learn just one language. its a really good bridge language for beginners

@kiwenmanisuno

Жыл бұрын

@@slavianalbanovich9025 English is ew

@definitlynotbenlente7671

5 ай бұрын

​@slavianalbanovich9025 esperanto is easier to learn and it c9mes without political bagage

aside from the fact that Esperanto does have movies, music, and tons of books, honestly my love for Mexican food has never made me want to learn Spanish, and French fashion will never make me want to speak with the back of my throat. I'm not the only one who sees Esperanto not having a country-of-origin as a feature, not a bug.

@evanpeterjones

3 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling that as long as humanity is stratified by language someone will always find Esperanto

“You’re the only guy I know who became fluent in Esperanto only to find out it doesn’t exist anymore!” “I thought Esperanto was Spanish for Spanish!”

@MrGonzalobermudez

6 жыл бұрын

lol. Good one!

Why the hate on this, it's like every commenter knows this language when, I have never heard of it,

@patrickmoran1383

6 жыл бұрын

Sean Lambe Just do what everyone else is doing. Go on a five minute Google search and then come back here pretending you've spoken the language for decades.

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

Sean, when people don't understand something, due to their own ignorance, they often prejudge and lash out in hate with very little background knowledge to back their hateful statements.

@masbaiy4858

6 жыл бұрын

There's distinction between content and presentation. People may dislike one of them. But for this video, there's reason to dislike either of them. Narration is monotonous and narrative uninspired.

@miksuko

6 жыл бұрын

Bullshit

@ghenulo

6 жыл бұрын

You should read Claude Piron's essay on the psychological reactions to Esperanto. It explains everything.

Esperanto has a culture and native speakers tho. Not to mention that history has still yet to be written. It may not have happened yet, but we work and wait for that day to come; that is the meaning of hope kaj vi estas Esperantanoj!

@TritoxHDTV

7 жыл бұрын

I understand how Esperanto has a culture, but it's not the same type of culture that countries have today. Countries have thrived and died with their native tongues, but Esperanto has thrived and died with no country at all. This difference puts Esperanto at a disadvantage compared to the country-backed languages. So yes, it has a culture, but not to the extent of other languages. As for the video, I spoke of the past history of Esperanto (which includes it's culture), but by fault of mine I left out its future culture.

@spelcheak

7 жыл бұрын

TritoxHD But the main problem with that is acting like people who speak the same language have the same culture -It's simply not true. People who speak Spanish, French and English (even as natives) for example don't all share the same culture. Also, not everyone of the same culture speaks the same language. A person from southern France may speak Occitan but share the same culture as someone in Paris. Language, culture, ethnic and politically boundaries may tend together, but these lines are in flux and blurring; to see Esperanto's success one must look forward not backward.

@justme2623

7 жыл бұрын

If you try to understand it like other languages, you never will. Esperanto was invented and has grown with no country. Having no country is a great advantage for a common language, there are no grudges, no nationalistic pride, it's just a form of communication.

@pablodelatorregalvez4260

7 жыл бұрын

When he says culture he means cultural identity, cultural aspects different from any other culture.

@Shaun-Vargas

7 жыл бұрын

Esperantanoj have no country but they have the world and human race, which is something beautiful to embrace in today's modern divided world.. a country is such an ignorant idea from centuries and millenia and Esperanto is something much more advanced in idea it brings together the human culture which is much greater than all the other small divided warmongering cultures that hate and divide

I feel like it would be beneficial to teach my child Esperanto someday. It would help with Spanish/French classes in school and possibly become an official language someday.

Esperanto, a language with Slavic pronunciation, Latin orthography, and a vocabulary mostly Latin, partly Germanic, with a teensy bit of Slavic in there, and just a hint of Greek. I think it's neat, from a purely linguistic point of view. None of this political and cultural bullshit.

The esperanto text book cover would be all cultures because it would be the perfect travel language

Esperanto didn't fail. Its a living language with its own culture. Its used as an auxiliary language by hundreds of thousands that don't share a common language. If the criteria for a "success" is for almost everyone to speak it, then that is an unrealistic expectation. Esperanto has achieved a lot in a short time.

French food and Italian fashion? I think that you got the two mixed around.

@Krytern

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. It is so rare for French food to be eaten outside of France.

@markmozer3340

6 жыл бұрын

What french cousin is the foundation the most basic cooking techniques

@Dracopol

6 жыл бұрын

There is a joke that Canada should have had British government, French culture, and American efficiency. Instead they got French government, American culture and British efficiency... :-)

@geomidia8998

6 жыл бұрын

Dracopol *German efficiency

Esperanto failed to achieve its goal to become a universally spoken auxiliary language so far. However it has been successful in other ways, such as growing a global internationalist subculture. There, was that so hard? Grow up, kids.

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

And there's always time. The language was just waiting for a good international medium. Now we have the internet to communicate globally....

it hasn't failed its still gaining speakers and is still proposed to be and auxiliary language for international communication even today the rules allow you to speak how you do in your native language

@tumitaa_konsole

2 жыл бұрын

Does it allow to use postpositions instead of prepositions if I speak Hindi

I see Esperanto as a remarkable success story. It has survived wars and revolutions and economic crises and continues to attract people to learn and speak it. Esperanto works. I've used it in speech and writing in about seventeen countries over recent years. I recommend it to anyone, as a way of making friendly local contacts in other countries.

@augustinedaudu9203

6 жыл бұрын

Bill Chapman but Esperanto is quite a eurocentric language which is going to be pretty hard for a large population of Earth to understand, because not everyone can pronounce European and inherently Spanish Latin and Italian pronunciations

@jasonmey5235

6 жыл бұрын

KeCS1 Ĉu vi preferus ke ni parolus Esperante sub anglalingva fimeto? Ni povas fari tion. Kion vi pensas pri la filmeto? Mi pensas ke ĝia kreinto ne bone komprenas la nunan kulturon de Esperanto. Li neniam menciis Raŭmismon, ekzemple. Mi ne estas Raŭmisto, sed tia pensado gravas por moderna Esperanto. Sen paroli pri tio, spektantoj ne lernus pri la movado, kiu nun havas propran kulturon.

@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus

6 жыл бұрын

I am not an Esperanto speaker, but this argument is ridiculous. It makes sense that Esperanto is based on European languages. European languages are the most widely spoken languages around the world. They are spoken by Europeans, of course, but also by the entirety of North and South America, Australia, and Africa. Additionally, almost everyone in India speaks English nowadays, which is of course a European language too. Many Asian countries can be included in this as well, with Russian being widely spoken in Mongolia and Central Asia. The only parts of the world where no European language is spoken are East Asia and the Middle East. There is no way of mixing Arabic, Chinese and Japanese together with European languages that doesn't involve making everything ridiculously hard for everyone. Right now, people in East Asia and the Middle East already have to learn English, which is full of exceptions and other grammatical nonsense. Esperanto, regardless of it being based on European languages, would be good for them too, since it is has no exceptions and easy grammar.

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

I think KeCS1 just proved to us all why we need Esperanto, and why English is not the best choice for international communication. Mi pensas, ke KeCS1 ĵus pruvis al ĉiuj, kial ni bezonas Esperanton, kaj kial la angla ne estas la plej bona elekto por internacia interkomunikado.

@beepboopily6285

6 жыл бұрын

Endogenes Retrovirus That's true. I speak Arabic and there are letters people who don't speak Arabic cannot pronounce/say. Such as the letter ع.

There's sort of a Duolingo revival right now. Mi finis mian arbon finfine!

@Dracopol

6 жыл бұрын

Ĉu la tutan Duolingvo-arbon? Mirinde! Laŭdinde! [It is hard to convey to outsiders the awesome linguistic tricks you can do in Esperanto. Parts of speech and the accusative can call-back to the previous sentence used. -ind is the suffix for "a worthy thing" so I asked if (he finished) all of the Duolingvo "tree" of exercises, and said his achievement was "worthy of amazement" (amazing) and "praiseworthy".]

@la-zrider2749

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but people are afraid of the owl😧😧😧

@amadeosendiulo2137

3 жыл бұрын

@@la-zrider2749 I learn Esperanto chatting via the Internet and watching YT. Mi lernis E-on per babili interrete kaj spekti Jutubon.

@thebrand647

3 жыл бұрын

que????

@thebrand647

3 жыл бұрын

yo no hablo esperanto

I think Imma spend a couple of days just to get to know esperanto. I think it's worth it

@kiwenmanisuno

Жыл бұрын

5 years ago. How are ya now?

You. Need. A. Voice. Coach.

@benduffie7794

6 жыл бұрын

i watched the video at 1.5x speed. it helps.

@nguyenbinhphuong1491

6 жыл бұрын

Ben Duffie i watch it on phone, unlike on computer, some video has option to adjust speed but most of them don't

@proudtitanicdenier4300

6 жыл бұрын

+Binh Phuong Nguyen You can speed up or slow down every KZread video you'd like on PC, you muppet.

@nguyenbinhphuong1491

6 жыл бұрын

TheBeetle i said i use phone, read again

@proudtitanicdenier4300

6 жыл бұрын

"unlike on computer, some video has option to adjust speed but most of them don't" You are clearly saying that computers cannot do this. I was just correcting you. *facepalm

My first exposure to Esperanto was in reading the Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison (in the science fiction future of space travel, humanity was finally smart enough to utilize Esperanto as the universal language apparently). At the end of the book, Mr. Harrison gave a brief explanation of what Esperanto was and I was so intrigued, I had sent away for a correspondence course in beginning Esperanto. Yes, this was in the early 80's where books still had to be read rather than finding information online. Fond memories!

Esperanto has no culture, but has its own subculture. But it doesn't need a culture, it must be culturally clear. Esperanto is a way of communication between all native cultures that already exist, they're enough.

@sebetovsky

6 жыл бұрын

What culture do people miss in Esperanto? Books? It has. Music? It has. Customs? It has. Jokes? It has.

@Harlizarrd

6 жыл бұрын

Esperanto has it's own culture. So does any countries sign language. I live in Australia, and I really want to learn ASL because of it's culture. Unfortunately, similarly to Esp, ASL has little to-no following here. If I were to learn French or Auslang, I would be much better equipped in my life. After that? Sure, Esperanto. The problem with learning esperanto these days is that it is more like learning knlingon than it is learning french. If there was a way to make esperanto exclusive to masters? I don't know, the world runs on profit and this is a struggle.

@libertarianatheist6274

6 жыл бұрын

This kind of thing has to be forced by government to work. People won't willingly adopt a useless language (except for retarded polyglots, but they're like 0,1% of population)

@Max_Jacoby

6 жыл бұрын

Libertarian Atheist governments are interested to keep their sheep in a flock and they will try to ban any kind of universal language because it gives some degree of freedom.

@xMckingwill

6 жыл бұрын

huh? what do you mean culture if you are using it in a usual context then who cares? the only purpose of language is to transmit information from person to person

Esperanto estas la plej bona lingvo kaj ni ĉiuj devas lerni ĝin

@lucasflanagan656

4 жыл бұрын

“Esperanto is the ____ good language and we ____ ____ to learn it” Help

@gamesriver3137

4 жыл бұрын

@@lucasflanagan656 esperanto's the best language and we have to learn it. Bonan tagon

@lucasflanagan656

4 жыл бұрын

@Games River Dankon!

@CaioCastroVaz

3 жыл бұрын

Esperanto ne estas nur bona, sed tre bela ankaŭ! Neniu bedaŭros lerni ĝin.

@sergiopaulo4221

Жыл бұрын

​@@CaioCastroVazvi pravas, kiam vi lernis gxin?

Esperanto hasn't failed! If you look that language families vs. number of speakers you will find that the distribution is very heavily skewed with a mighty handful claiming most speakers and the majority of other families only having a small number of languages and a small number of speakers. Furthermore, minor languages become extinct all the time. It's quite possible that language diversity is also being reduced with time at the moment. Against this backdrop Esperanto, a constructed language that didn't even exist 150 years ago, has amassed hundreds of thousands proficient speakers and several millions of learners, as well as some native speakers. So that hardly seems a failure - in fact it seems like a great success. Esperanto may not be a lingua franca (yet) but it *is* an easy language to acquire that helps its speakers communicate. Esperanto is not dead either - nor is it devoid of a culture, or "legends". A body of Esperanto literature exists and it is growing. So yeah, I'd say that the dismissal of the language is entirely unwarranted.

@Under-Kaoz

Жыл бұрын

It failed, I never once met an Esperanto speaker and I've traveled a good bit. It's honestly just a waste of time at this point. It's more useful to learn a language actually spoken by millions.

@thato596

Жыл бұрын

@@Under-Kaoz yes you are right. It has failed. You can travel the around the world there is no country where you will hear people talking esperanto in public. It did not become a world language also. I rather learn a language that if i travel to that country i know that i will hear people talking that language

You know, when you look at Esperanto's history, it didn't fail. It is not an universal Language yet, but it is worth another shot since we're less genocidal than we used to be a 100 years ago.

Who says it failed? (By the way, the chap who created it was called ZAM-en-hof - not ZAY-men-hof.)

@patrickeh696

6 жыл бұрын

Reality says it failed Ian. Join it.

@johnhooyer3101

6 жыл бұрын

The number of speakers has gone down. Its popularity had its hey-day, when people actually suggested it as languages for international communication. It wasn't even proposed as a language for the U.N., and nobody proposes it as serious languages for disputed regions like between Germany and Belgium. It's quite solidly used only by hobbyists.

@TomYale

6 жыл бұрын

2 million people might take issue with what you claim reality says.

@johnhooyer3101

6 жыл бұрын

How exactly do all of the 2 million speakers define success? I'm not going to assume that Esperantists are a homogenous group. If the criteria is that it has successfully gained a following, then I'll agree that it's successful. That's probably more than any conlang than I will ever develop. If their standard for success is that it gave them personal fulfillment, I'm going to assume that it succeeded in that department. As far as the grander definitions of success, that is, whether or not Esperanto has become _the_ universal second language of the world, it hasn't met that particular objective.

@zacharywilson9596

6 жыл бұрын

Ian Carter, he’s American. They pronounce things rather strangely.

Pet peeve: when native English speakers call English a difficult language while they've never tried to learn a different language

The language was based on europeans languages. It was 'easy' to learn for europeans, but just as hard for chinese and such.

@kiwenmanisuno

Жыл бұрын

Untrue. There are an estimated 250 thousand Chinese Esperantists. Most have taken less than a year to learn the language

This video is full of mistakes, misinformation, and mispronunciation. I have spoken Esperanto fluently for over 20 years & have used it to travel extensively for practically no cost & meet fascinating people from all over the world. The language is not only alive & thriving but is a super interesting, friendly & fun community of people. I think it's a bit laughable when people who haven't ever experienced the Esperanto culture try to say that it doesn't have a culture. Esperanto may not have yet reached Zamenhof's original goal of being used worldwide in an official capacity, but it is an instrument of instant connection & friendship between people from widely varying cultures. To me, that means it's a success.

@amandahigley

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't every opinion subjective? :)

@yarpen26

6 жыл бұрын

_it is an instrument of instant connection & friendship between people from widely varying cultures._ Then why aren't you typing this comment in Esperanto?

@amandahigley

6 жыл бұрын

Because the Esperanto-speakers here already know exactly what I'm talking about. I wrote my comment for people outside our community who don't know what it's like. Would you like me to post a translation in Esperanto?

@yarpen26

6 жыл бұрын

In other words you use English to communicate with people from outside the circle of Esperanto speakers rather than use Esperanto to communicate with people from outside the circle of English (or whatever your native language is) speakers... makes sense.

@ggwp638BC

6 жыл бұрын

"I think it's a bit laughable when people who haven't ever experienced the Esperanto culture try to say that it doesn't have a culture. " All right, then give us the Tolkien, the Shakespeare, the Luís Vaz de Camões, of Esperanto.

ONE FUCKING VOTE

@HazyHaydn

6 жыл бұрын

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Communist.

@Wtahc

6 жыл бұрын

South Jersey Mapping Good. We need more of them, and less of people like you.

@Chaika1974

6 жыл бұрын

South Jersey Mapping Not necessarily

@HazyHaydn

6 жыл бұрын

SU 57 Joke.

@weiwu1442

6 жыл бұрын

Good Memory, Bad Chess I think the Russians had that idea, didn't work out as well as you think it would.

It never failed. It is a matter of time. A language created 130 years ago will not be learned by billions of people after night. Indeed nowadays it is its gold period. More people than never are learning it by internet.

I started to learn french and Esperanto on Duolingo at the same time. Two weeks later I completely lost my motivation for having Esperanto courses but I still persist in learning french today

@denizkeser1457

2 жыл бұрын

Because it's to easy and boring, it's a created language, while french is hundred of years old, those languages just developed in a long period, they sound much better and fluently, they are more as just words. I just started to study Esperanto, and stopped in the first level in the middle at the first task, because it sounds shit and you can't use the language really, so cognitive and emotional zero, I speak 5 languages and know from what I am talking about

@kiwenmanisuno

Жыл бұрын

@@denizkeser1457 "stopped in the first level in the middle at the first task" "I speak 5 languages and know from what I am talking about" yeah yeah alright you def know how to judge a language i can really tell

"Chinese" isn't a language. You're probably thinking of Mandarin or Cantonese. There is no language called "Chinese" and over 200 different dialects are spoken in the country of China.

@chrislau2341

6 жыл бұрын

Keah Creations True af everyone just says Chinese most don’t realise it’s just a generalised term

@electriclord3

6 жыл бұрын

It is not incorrect to refer to "Chinese" as a language. You have different types of chinese of course, like mandarin and cantonese etc. but they are different dialects of chinese. That doesn't make chinese not the language. A good example is arabic from saudi arabia vs. arabic from moroco (at least from what I have heard) they are both arabic but they are unintelligable.

@LameNameForSarah

6 жыл бұрын

That would be like saying English isn't a language cause Scottish and Irish and Australian and British and Americans have different dialects so they're referred to African English and British English and Australian English, etc etc etc. No, English is a language, the region specific dialects are dialects.

@LameNameForSarah

6 жыл бұрын

American* not African

@millionelectricvolts6117

6 жыл бұрын

You're surrounded. Please put down your weapons and surrender. XD lol

I think that using only 1 language is going to be really limiting, because there are just some things that you can't translate in another language. The people who made their language, made it based on their daily experience, and the place they lived on. Arabic for example uses many vowels, because its speakers live on a relatively hot area and opening their mouths more regularly is a necessity for them. Another example is that in some of the Inuit languages, there are 50 words for the word "snow". That means that they experience 50 types of snow. If everyone spoke just one language, how on earth could they be able to express that? There are some things that can be expressed only in a limited amount of languages. I think it's better to accept that language and culture go by hand and if one loses their language, they lose their culture as well. So let's continue using our own language, be proud of our culture and understand the importance of being different.

@ronaldonmg

6 жыл бұрын

Nobody is advocating a one-language world except capitalist globalists, and they advocate that that language be English

@dimitriscollier9918

6 жыл бұрын

ronaldonmg Well, if that's true, then this comment is for those globalist capitalists.

Literally a good movie like Harry Potter but used Esperanto can bring it to life because people will get hyped so much that they will want to learn the language especially if it’s simple as it is told

It didn't fail - it works for me and millions of others every day!

That gap between the quote gets me suspicious...

This language's name sounds like some new spanish pop song ffs

@thehammurabichode7994

6 жыл бұрын

Damian Despacito

@Kanal7Indonesia

5 жыл бұрын

Desperanto

Esperanto does have an established culture; it's just not tied down to a specific geographic location. There are also books, movies, songs, poems, etc written in Esperanto. There are also an estimated 2,000 native speakers of Esperanto (Denaskuloj).

several comments are something like this: "I don't want to learn Esperanto because nobody speaks it". But nobody speaks it because no one wants to learn it. It's a circle, personally i'd like to learn it, "porque ya he tardado mucho en aprender ingles" and i think it'll be good if i learn something easier "antes de seguir con el ingles". PD: I did my best trying to write in english, so forgive me if i made some mistakes.

You can't lecture people about linguistics while simultaneously pronouncing literally every single non-English name incorrectly.

@keegster7167

6 жыл бұрын

You can though; I've seen Linguistics professors who can't pronounce things correctly. They just write things down more and don't try to pronounce it. lol.

@dudeonthasopha

6 жыл бұрын

I've wrote entire papers about consonant shifts in finno-ugric languages i neither speak nor can pronounce myself. You don't have to speak multiple languages to be a linguist, that's not how it works.

@-.____________________________

5 жыл бұрын

Who cares how someone pronounces words. Should we criticize people who have accents too?

@NewsFlashStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@-.____________________________ I'm not hating on him or anything but "Bee alley stock" kinda made me chuckle

I picked up an Esperanto book in the pre-internet days and thought, interesting but nearly impossible to engage with. But things have changed. They even have people doing song covers in Espiranto now. A lot of songs. I don't think Espiranto has failed. It was just waiting for a technology to unite speakers.

I suggest we start to teach Esperanto in schools

Esperanto not only hasn’t failed but with the power of internet and global apps such as KZread and Duolingo, is getting developed more and more day after day. Soon or late the EU will not have any solution other than choosing Esperanto as an official common language among its member countries

My issue with Esperanto has always been that it is too centered around Itallian and Spanish. So if you are use to those languages you will thrive, but for a lot of speakers of different languages it has always felt like iv been trying to learn dumbed down Itallian or Spanish. I feel like a universal language would be cool, but English is already pretty much the universal language. The issue with English is that is stupid and very hard to learn as a second language.

@maimutescu

6 жыл бұрын

english is actually one of the easier secondary languages to learn

@papatez863

6 жыл бұрын

The vocabulary is largely based on Latin and the grammar is based on Slavic languages. I also find it very Eurocentric. It would be cool if we used a manual/signed language as an international language.

@matrix07012

6 жыл бұрын

I’ve never understood why some people have an issue with learning English. For me it was super easy.

@voidface8827

6 жыл бұрын

matrix07012 me too, but then again I'm Danish and our language is like the 7th hardest in the world lmao

@RobinRako

6 жыл бұрын

It's not that hard considering all the movies, tv shows etc. In english

To me it would make sense to add this as all schools second language class. I only had the option of French in my school but if it was Esperanto for the only option in ever school all over the world in like two or three years you would see it used in abundance

@ronaldonmg

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody wants it to be the only option. In fact, if it were it would not be an option at all. What would make sense is teach all teens Esperanto in school for one year, before being taught other languages. For final exams, all languages should be elective

Why don't people instead have Esperanto as a second language? Not to dominate other languages, but rather so that everybody can communicate easily when meeting people who are foreign to them.

Yes,yes...Esperanto doesn't has a "a living and breathing culture",but the speakers knows about that and are working on It .I think the real popularization of Esperanto is just a question of time. Also,you need to take in consideration that,If we didn´t had two great wars,for sure Esperanto could have had more importance today.

@MarquisAndrealphus

6 жыл бұрын

See, things like this are why I doubt Esperontists have any idea what culture is. You don't, "work on it." It happens! Often from proximity!

Tolkien's point about the language is a very good reason on why this language never really took off. But I think it would be a perfect language for hipsters to learn. lol

@luisgonzalez5482

6 жыл бұрын

Josh Faz The thing is it's not supposed to reflect a single culture. It's not culture based, just able to be used and understood everywhere.

@Artechiza

6 жыл бұрын

That last part was so mean lol

@ofeliabanda2107

6 жыл бұрын

What was it?

@louisdurand4567

6 жыл бұрын

No I think Tolkien's part is the only wrong one. I didn't learn English for the Big Ben or the English food. It's only the motivation of communicating and reading beyond the borders of my country.

Sounds interesting, I wanna learn it, along with Scottish.

@ronaldonmg

Жыл бұрын

scottish? do you mean Scots (a westgermanic language) or Gaelic (a celtic one) ?

Second comment, sorry for the insistence. Picture this: A bit over a hundred years ago, a single person invented a language. It was known only to that single person. In a few years, it got hundreds of speakers, and an official association. It spread all around Europe. Time passed, children where raised speaking it. It became a native language. It kept spreading. Time kept passing, it's now spoken in almost every country in the world. It has original literature, music, etc, has one of the largest Wikipedias, and people are still arguing about it. I wouldn't call it a failure, but a slow partial success. It inspires more people to talk ABOUT it than to talk IN it, it seems. But it does both.

William Shatner starred in INCUBUS, the only movie ever made completely in Esperanto. Y'all can see it on KZread to hear what it sounded like.

106 Esperanto speakers down-voted and then proceeded to voice their opinions in English.

@jasonmey5235

6 жыл бұрын

L0os1 Kial vi pensas ke tio estas? Ĉu eble pro la lingvo de la filmeto? Kies spektantoj kompreneble parolas la saman lingvon?

@blah7983

6 жыл бұрын

Malmultaj da personoj komprenas la lingvo. Sekve ni ne parolu gin ci tie. (Por cian Esperantiston, mi estas komencanto. mi gramatiko estas plej malbona. Few people understand the language. Therefore we don’t speak it here. That last part is irrelevant.

@kevinz2738

6 жыл бұрын

How didn't you see that coming? XD

@luisraulraudales2468

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Z so many Esperantist here

@zacherywagner1189

6 жыл бұрын

The point these people are making is that an argument is irrelevant if the audience is unable to understand it. Your point is worthless.

x1.25 speed - you're welcome

The purpose of The Esperanto languange was not to replace any language, only to be a internacional language

Fun fact: There are native Esperanto speakers, though there's less than 500 of them. Some parents speak Esperanto to their kids, so the kids learn it as another native language. One notable Esperanto speaker is George (György) Soros, Hungarian-moved-to-US billionare.

@alanguages

6 жыл бұрын

George, Paul and their father Tivadar were all Esperantists. Even though I consider myself an Esperantist, I am also against globalism and George Soros.

@poesalesman2132

6 жыл бұрын

Do you really want to claim George Soros of all people? If anything that's going to scare people away from your language.

@ronaldonmg

Жыл бұрын

@@poesalesman2132 As far as know, George doesn't do squat for Esperanto, but his father Tivadar wrote books in it

I mean you cant really say they where sent to gulag camps because of esperanto... during the imprisoning of the populace the people who arrested and put people into labor camps literally just had "workers quota" in which they would fulfill so literally any reason they could think of to arrest people would do it.

the interesting thing is if it failed why do 2 million people speak it?

@cedros_

7 жыл бұрын

Because he apparently thinks, the only goal Esperanto could possibly have is to have all 7 billion people on earth understand and speak it. Obviously, that hasn't happened (yet). The problem with that is, though, that this is not and actually has never been the primary goal of Esperanto. The primary goal of Esperanto is to provide a tool for international communication (hence the original name "internacia lingvo" = "international language") for people who would not be able to communicate with each other without it. And that's exactly what it does for all the thousands of speakers out there, including myself. So... it hasn't failed at all.

@radiantgrace

7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the answer. I agree with you

@maximhamley6662

6 жыл бұрын

Becuase the world is 7 billion, not 2 million. It's goal and purpose was to be the language of everyone and only 1/3500 people speak it. Let's be real here, the population might go up a bit, but at no point will it become an actual lingua franca. Plus there is no solid group of people that will use it. Unless you are at an artificial gathering of speakers, there is no time when you can presume someone speaks it, it's hardly connecting people, especially when most of the speakers of it also speak another language in common

@yarpen26

6 жыл бұрын

Cedros _The primary goal of Esperanto is to provide a tool for international communication (...) for people who would not be able to communicate with each other without it. And that's exactly what it does for all the thousands of speakers out there, including myself._ Yeah, good thing you know Esperanto. Can't imagine what other language you could _possibly_ use to communicae with the rest of the world. No clue at all.

A noble cause indeed. I'm actually a bit ashamed I learned about it until now, I knew there was a language called esperanto, but for some reason I never looked it up to see where was it from.

Never heard of such language until now

By describing the history alone it could be said that Esperanto DOES have a culture. Culture is defined not just by shared values but also shared experiences. The struggles of Esperantists surviving exile and persecution I would consider legends. Note that modern US history is very young compared to other nations, and yet it has several distinct cultures after only a few hundred years that flow and change on their own. Esperanto just needs more time.

What do you mean with four times easier than English *and* German. Theres no way to compare English in difficulty to German. One is a bike and the other one a F1 engine

@miksuko

6 жыл бұрын

German is an F1 engine made with random parts from the scrapyard.

@jetison333

6 жыл бұрын

Nicolas don't bother with my lastname you can say whatever you want in esperanto. Now toki pona, *that* definitely is a bike!

@itsyaboi1245

6 жыл бұрын

German is the most retardedly easy language Ive ever learned legit took me 3 months

@miksuko

6 жыл бұрын

Its YaBoi python was easier

@gmontanher7588

6 жыл бұрын

Endogenes Retrovirus That happens in every language, even English

I like Esperanto. I've always struggled to learn languages, and it's taken me 2 years to learn basic Esperanto, but at least I now know I'm not as stupid as I thought I was in secondary school.

great video very informativ and well structured thanks :)

Did the speaker include Esperanto in his count of languages? Unfortunately this count in itself casts some doubt on the depth of the speaker’s knowledge of his subject. Indeed many of comments elicited by this video show a widespread lack of knowledge of Esperanto, its aims, development as a living language, its chequered history (the speaker is stronger here), its extensive literature, original and translated (its creative writers are recognised in PEN) and its culture, now well attested on the internet. However while so many (especially English speakers?) remain ignorant of its aims and achievements, then it remains unlikely that Esperanto will very soon become the preferred second language used where people of different national languages seek to meet on an equal basis. Esperanto has certainly not yet achieved what its users hope for, but it remains the most successful language designed for its purpose. While basing its vocabulary on the European word stock, its designer Zamenhof feared that its building-block style of creating words would alienate its potential users. So he tried to hide it! Much of the language’s subsequent development has consisted in exploring how its unfamiliar nature (at least to most Europeans) actually works. Zamenhof was an intuitive creator, not a linguistics theorist. It was more than twenty years after its publication before a theory of how Esperanto actually works appeared. Though the language has proved both stable and capable of evolving, that theoretical discussion continues even today. An interesting illustration of this is how Esperanto’s verbal system best works. Many textbooks in European languages for long attempted to teach Esperanto verbs on a European model, such as that found in English, French or German. However over the years speakers and writers have uncovered that Esperanto is more suited to a more direct expressive system which prefers simple verbs to complex ones, exploits adverbs of time, and avoids passives. One of the main mental blocks to mastering Esperanto is to follow the habits of one’s own language. One of the first things Zamenhof himself sorted out was the use of prepositions. In Esperanto you must use the most logical one, not the one favoured in your own language. Zamenhof even provided an ‘empty’ preposition to use when in doubt. Over the years Esperanto has successfully developed its own internal logic on this point. If only critics of the language did so on the basis of deeper personal knowledge of its nature, history, literature and vibrant culture! That would make waiting for its wider adoption easier to bear.

Esperanto is not perfect or completely regular and ugly in some respects. And I am an Esperantist, so I know this firsthand. However it does unite people around the globe, even if it isn’t as widespread as it could of been.

@MishaFlower

6 жыл бұрын

So does every other language, Stop romanticizing Esperanto, It's literally just a communication tool.

@Dracopol

6 жыл бұрын

("...could have been.") I am from a place where "have" and "of" always sound different in their vowel sound.

@blah7983

6 жыл бұрын

Dracopol . I’m from the south (Southeast USA), the two are actually pronounced the same down here. Part of the reason people mess up so often.

@alanguages

6 жыл бұрын

Blah Yes it does unite people only if both sides are interested in communicating. I used the Pasporta Servo and one in particular was not interested and would not even give me the contact information of the Esperanto club in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It did not matter to me, that he wasn't able to house me, since people have different circumstances, but he flat out refused to let me know the Sao Paulo, Esperanto club contact information. I thought he was a douche.

@UniDeathRaven

6 жыл бұрын

So does english and do it BETTER in every way. fuck off with animal languages.

Esperanto is growing again. We are pushing 3million speakers all because of the Internet.

I like the graphic showing Esperanto growing and collapsing. What data is that based on?

@luisgonzalez5482

6 жыл бұрын

Esperanto Variety Show Data sources provided to you by bs research, probably.

@Suchega_Uber

6 жыл бұрын

It's not a data point genius. It's just a graphic to help visualize the point. Nice attempt to stroke off your ego though.

@macasiskaishak2808

6 жыл бұрын

its based on plain old bullshit

@miksuko

6 жыл бұрын

Luis Gonzalez haha

@miksuko

6 жыл бұрын

Macasis kaishak hahaha

Esperanto has NOT failed.

@zanziboi

4 жыл бұрын

it has

Esperanto didn't fail. It is still spoken all over the world by thousands of people. There are even native speakers of Esperanto.There are always esperantist encounters, magazines and books published in this language and the esperantist community is present on the internet, with podcasts, videos, and live chat between esperantists. please do not say that Esperanto has failed because it has become the living language of a community with its own culture. Esperanto deserves to be respected just like any other living language.

Mi amas Esperanton.

There isn’t a known number of languages in the world. Even among the languages uncovered by linguists, there’s dissent among which codes are dialects and which are languages, etc.

6:44 this isn't exactly true. There are real world communities that speak Esperanto and there are native speakers of the language, just not nearly as many as larger natural languages like English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, etc.

@fitzburg63

Жыл бұрын

People say stupid things about Esperanto because they have zero knowledge about it.

This feels like an excuse to not make the effort. It's the best attempt out there, and it's had lots of success. There already are a lot of people who speak it, and lot more will come. Thanks to the excellent Duolingo courses for English and Spanish speakers, it's getting a lot of new learners. And thanks to being easier to learn than most other languages, it's success rate will probably be comparatively high.

Most of this comment section consists of people saying that "Esperanto" hasn't failed it's only started.

What does the green monster have to do with it?

@augustinedaudu9203

6 жыл бұрын

MrBraveheart1191 because, it's the trend where KZreadrs make these really odd characters in animated videos

@ronaldonmg

3 жыл бұрын

that's a reference to insider slang for people who speak other languages when/where using Esperanto is the proper/polite thing to do

If Esperanto is essentially a mixture of European languages then can't it be used as a gateway to learn other European languages easier similar to like learning Spanish helps you with Italian

@alanguages

6 жыл бұрын

Aidan Albin I learned some Esperanto and it did help me learn Spanish and Portuguese it seemed faster. I also intend to use the grammatical concepts I am aware of in Esperanto for non European languages. Examples: Turkish and Austronesian Languages for Agglutination. I practice the word order of Object- Subject- Verb in Esperanto as default sometimes and that can be transferred to Hebrew and Arabic. If I want to learn another language, that has a different word order, I am going to practice the different word order with Esperanto. I view Esperanto more as a stepping stone language to learn more. I encourage people to study Esperanto, but don't advocate it to be a universal language. People on average are lazy to learn something like languages. If any language is universal, then you will see less interest in learning languages in general.

@definitlynotbenlente7671

11 ай бұрын

​@@alanguagesit was not ment to substitute all languages but to be a lingua franca so it would be a universal second or even third language

@alanguages

11 ай бұрын

@@definitlynotbenlente7671 I never stated Esperanto was to substitute other languages. There will be people who won't attempt to learn any other language if one is the most used. English is an example of this. There are even Esperanto native speakers, which also goes against what Esperanto was meant to be. A 2nd easier language to learn. Native speakers will have an advantage over someone who is not. That was one reason why Esperanto was created, so everybody could have equal footing and communicate in a non native language.

@definitlynotbenlente7671

11 ай бұрын

@@alanguages but no one has esperanto as their navitve first first language what they did was learn the language tk a really high level witch already exist with some people who learned English as their secondary language and learned it to a really high proficiency (like me), but it is way easier to get to a high level of proficiency in esperanto Meaning instead of spending all elementairy school and high school having to learn english there would be more room for other langhages. I did get german and french in school but the main focus was english everyone had to learn English bht french, german and Spanish where optional becouse of all the time put in english

@alanguages

11 ай бұрын

@@definitlynotbenlente7671 I suggest you look into native speakers of Esperanto. There is in fact native speakers of it. Although the number is considered negligible it is still there. Usually from parents who don't speak another common language, except Esperanto. Hence, the child they have grows up speaking Esperanto as their native tongue, eventually learning a local language wherever it maybe. Esperanto was created to be easy, that is why it is easier to learn, than a natural language. The idea behind it is also voluntary, so it won't really catch on, as people in general I have also pointed out are lazy. What I find the most odd are anti- Esperanto people who have it in their head, that Esperanto's ideology is to supplant other languages. I have asked proof and examples of this, but usually the anti-Esperanto crowd provide nothing, but their own opinionated babble.

None of the problems seem to be a fault of the language itself, but rather the external factors that probably couldn't have been fixed without a monumental effort of a great number of people working together. To describe this as the language's impracticality, i feel, doesn't do it justice.

This frustrates me, a universal language would be amazing. Imagine if it was taught in schools worldwide, in a few years everyone would be able to communicate easily, it may even become everyones primary language. By the way that point about it having no culture is retarded, there is no need for it to have a culture, its a language designed to alow people worldwide to talk without translating.

I am from Iran, I am Esperantisto(Hopeful) Our language Esperanto is alive, someday our children speak Esperanto instead of English for international language

@UniDeathRaven

6 жыл бұрын

No. My children wont speak this animal language. Only english .

So many mistakes and myths. Please google a little more.

@sluggo206

6 жыл бұрын

You didn't say what specifically you think is wrong, so it's impossible to evaluate whether you're correct. Without specifics, your claim becomes an empty insult.

@TheMainMan_X

6 жыл бұрын

Esperanto just as socialism does not work. Lol

@knrdvmmlbkkn

6 жыл бұрын

"Esperanto just as socialism does not work." Well, both work in theory... so there's that.

@alanguages

6 жыл бұрын

Esperanto works as a language and means for communication. It meets the criteria of what a language is. Esperanto is an excellent language to learn in preparation to learn more languages after, which has been done in studies. Less time to learn the next and all that. Esperanto as a global universal language that everybody in the world speaking it. Well, I don't see that happening and it shouldn't happen. People are generally lazy, and if Esperanto was the world language, a noticeably sizeable amount of the world population would NOT want to learn other languages. I have noticed this with English and Spanish speakers. Examples: Many English speaking expats will move to another country, but stay in their little pocket community and make no attempt to learn the local language. Immigrants from Latin America move to the United States and refuse to learn English, and restrict themselves to the Latino community, thereby missing out on what more the United States has to offer.

@davidmartinez-toribio6825

6 жыл бұрын

alanguages Spot on.

Esperanto is incredibly easy to learn and use. It can be learned within maybe two weeks to never ask a single time what someone is saying for lack of comprehension, coming from English.

@thatyoutubechannel9953

7 жыл бұрын

Mi estas esperantisto poste(j?) tri tagoj

@ronaldonmg

3 жыл бұрын

No needs to exaggerate. US Foreign Service Institute says you need 150 hours of class. In places like Herzberg and Gresillon you can take courses of one, two, or even three weeks. I myself started with one week, after which I needed a couple of months to process everything. I suspect that even just one course-weekend is enough to figure out whether it fits you

It's bad to know that Esperanto is not used as a language of a country.

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, that is a positive thing. It means that the language is neutral. It is not the language of a dictator, or an army, or a conqueror. It is a neutral language that will put everyone in the world at an equal level.

@LaPingvino

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, it has been... more than one micronation used it!

I love your voice. Thanks for the videos. Subscribed.

Reasons why english could not be a universal language: It is pretty hard for non english speakers to learn english English has their own diverse accent e.g Southern british accent,american accent ,australian accent 3.Not all english words used for scientific or history definitions. Even metric system was invented in France . 4.English also has their own germanic roots,latin words and lot more

@stevenvarner9806

6 жыл бұрын

Even many native English speakers speak English very poorly. I know. I'm a teacher in the USA. ;)

People are getting really defensive about this topic. I never knew what Esperanto was until I saw this video, so I think the point is proven; it has failed its only aim for existence.

@billcipher8645

6 жыл бұрын

Joachim Murat Same.

@10jonchannel

6 жыл бұрын

Happy Hamburger So because you don’t know about something means it doesn’t exist? Lol

@billcipher8645

6 жыл бұрын

Jonny Ortiz No?

@billcipher8645

6 жыл бұрын

Jonny Ortiz I agreed that it failed.

@Wotplaya4

6 жыл бұрын

Joachim Murat it's all relative, for some people it didn't fail, for others it did...

This might be a more interesting video if the speaker used some inflection. Esperanto doesn't need to be all monotone does it?

i was gonna learn esperanto cos its easy. but i decided to learn spanish because there are both alot more resources and peopple that speak it