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Esperanto - Do People Really Use It? | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 25 of 32 14 August 2012 at 5:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Same problem :D Watching football and reading about it is a huge part of language learning for me, and it's very disappointing that I can't do that in Esperanto. I also agree that it would be nice to talk about other subjects than Esperanto and the movement. Let's talk in Esperanto about how we don't want to talk about Esperanto! :DDD
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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4849 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 26 of 32 14 August 2012 at 11:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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You like football, Serpent? The beautiful game? Cool. Let's talk about it in English
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 27 of 32 14 August 2012 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, I love it!!! My biggest love is the team Benfica from Portugal. If you like football, Portuguese is certainly one of the best languages to learn;) along with Spanish.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 28 of 32 14 August 2012 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sure - most of my face-to-face use of Esperanto is at cafes and hanging out with a handful of Esperanto-speaking friends. We discuss anything we'd talk about in other languages, from contemporary politics to technology.
I know some people who enjoy both Esperanto and sports. There's probably actually a decent potential readership for an Esperanto sports blog, if anyone starts a good one, and no significant competition for that niche that I know of. I don't know any native Persian speakers into classical poetry, but it doesn't mean they don't exist - I've heard it's actually quite common. Don't make the mistake of assuming things you want, or speakers with shared interests, do not exist in languages you're a beginner in, simply because you haven't found them yet. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 29 of 32 14 August 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, at one point I spent a lot of time looking for an Esperanto forum about football or fantasy literature, and I couldn't find either. Esperanto offers some unique things but it's at the expense of more 'standard' things.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 30 of 32 14 August 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Football definitely isn't as popular in the Esperanto speaking world as you'd expect from the number of speakers - which is one reason why a good sports blog would be entering a fairly empty niche. I haven't found anything in the way of good forums in it either (the lernu ones don't massively appeal to me). The only silver lining is that it does have some decent fantasy literature. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4849 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 31 of 32 15 August 2012 at 12:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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@Volte - You are tempting me to go where no man has gone before - start an Esperanto football blog!
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 32 of 32 15 August 2012 at 11:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Do it! I'd probably learn something about football from it. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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