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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4852 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 169 of 646 27 September 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
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When I'm old, I will prefer to learn Esperanto instead of Spanish. I guess.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4837 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 170 of 646 27 September 2012 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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No, that I will never do! No Esperanto, never!!!
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4852 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 171 of 646 28 September 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged |
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Why? It's very interesting concept in terms of sociolinguistics.
P.S. Never say never... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4837 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 172 of 646 28 September 2012 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
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Okay, never say never, but Esperanto is really the last language I would want to learn. It's artificial, it doesn't serve any practical purpose, and there's no culture behind it.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4700 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 173 of 646 28 September 2012 at 11:08am | IP Logged |
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There is quite a big community of Esperantists actually.
That said I don't find Esperanto appealing either. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4852 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 174 of 646 28 September 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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Okay, so you will blame me if I say that I'd like to learn Bislama? ;]
F**k off (not you, it's a general remark ;) ) with saying things like "practical". + hey, you learn Icelandic and Faroese!!!! :D Edited by prz_ on 28 September 2012 at 4:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4837 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 175 of 646 28 September 2012 at 5:38pm | IP Logged |
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With Icelandic and Faroese, you can talk to people from Iceland and the Faroes, read their literature (which is huge), and listen to their music. Those are practical purposes for me. I wasn't thinking of language learning for doing business or the like. With Esperanto, however, you can only talk to people who speak it as a second language just like you, and there is no culture around it -- except some minor books, translations into Esperanto, and those famous Esperanto congresses.
I simply don't buy into this whole "universal language" idea. English is today's lingua franca, and if I meet people who don't speak English, it's rather unlikely that they will speak Esperanto. So, I rather learn their native language in the first place than some artificial construct with such a boring grammar. Where's the fun in language learning, when everything is designed to be easy? In addition, I simply don't like the mixture of Germanic, Romance, Greek, and Slavic words. "Mi lernas Esperanton" just sounds like total gibberish to me. If I were to learn an artificial language, then I'd rather choose Quenya or Sindarin, but not Esperanto! Learning Bislama, however, sounds great! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4852 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 176 of 646 28 September 2012 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
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Hmm, actually on the internet you can find more books in Esperanto than in Faroese and Icelandic (not counting Old Norse). I encourage you not to underrate this language.
And learning Bislama sounds good only on paper :/ I haven't even found one website in Bislama! ;/ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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