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| GeorgeStilly Newbie Australia Joined 6294 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Greek, French, Spanish | Message 97 of 140 12 September 2007 at 4:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for the links guys. To me it sounds very similar to italian and the romance languages.
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| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6692 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes  4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 98 of 140 14 September 2007 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If you are interested in reading Wikipedia in other languages I just found out that the Esperanto Wikipedia has more than 75,000 articles. It has around as much as Russian, Slovak, Catalan, Turkish and Norwegian. They stated the figures on the English Wikipedia main page.
Link to Wikipedia in Esperanto (Vikipedio): http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7147 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 99 of 140 17 September 2007 at 5:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I had a very negative attitude towards Esperanto. My feelings were, why spend time learning an artificial language that has no practical value when there are so many real languages out there that can be useful to learn.
Then I borrowed a book from my local library when I was giving a lecture on the easiest way to learn a new language and to promote my book. I found the book, Esperanto: Learning and Using the International Language by David Richardson. I was intrigued. The book changed my mind and answered many of my unspoken reasons for not learning the language. I looked up Esperanto on Google and downloaded websites and free courses - especially from Lernu!. I already had the Transparent introduction to Esperanto on the 101 Languages program. Now I have had invitations to correspond in Esperanto and I have been learning as fast as I can. The language is really easy to learn and I can correspond with Latvians and Poles who don't speak English. I don't think I could have learnt any other language as quickly. It hasn't replaced my learning other languages. I still enjoy reviewing genuine languages and I still spend time reading articles and watching TV programs and listening to the radio in the other languages I know and am still learning. At the moment my concentration is still on becoming fluent in Esperanto in the shortest possible time. I don't care that the language hasn't got the history of English, German, Russian or Hebrew. I enjoy learning cognates and how languages evolve. For instance, the English word "silly" comes from the old English/German word selig, meaning blessed. Chuck Berry made up English words for his songs, like coolerator for refrigerator. I love that. But I still appreciate Esperanto. I just don't expect the same from Esperanto as I do from other languages. I just accept it as it is. I couldn't believe that some of the posters were genuine in their criticisms. I am currently learning from the book by Richardson, several Lernu courses and from Transparent Language 101 Languages. I am corresponding in the language and enjoying it. Edited by fanatic on 17 September 2007 at 5:32am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7147 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 100 of 140 17 September 2007 at 5:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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Lernu even has a course very similar to Pimsleur. It is called Mi estas komencanto and I will use that with my mp3 player.
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| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6692 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 101 of 140 22 September 2007 at 9:50am | IP Logged | |||||
So it's speaking intensive? That's good to know. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aberfitch1892 Newbie United States Joined 6284 days ago 15 posts - 15 votes Speaks: German Studies: French Studies: Haitian Creole | Message 102 of 140 23 September 2007 at 1:14am | IP Logged | |||||
the speaker's accent does influences esperanto making it sound natural and distinct...I thought it sounded like Spanish until I have figured out it was a Spanish-speaker speaking it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6295 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 103 of 140 23 September 2007 at 2:04am | IP Logged | |||||
Hmmm, I wonder if it would be possible to learn Esperanto in the time it would take read another debate on the value of learning Esperanto. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7147 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 104 of 140 23 September 2007 at 2:32am | IP Logged | |||||
Probably. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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