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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6475 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 9 of 14 20 August 2010 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
Here's someone writing about their experience at this year's Internacia Junulara Semajno:
http://besondersweg.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/my-second-esper anto-conference/
(remove the space if copying the URL)
Edited by Sprachprofi on 20 August 2010 at 9:08pm
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| mattrossi Newbie Australia Joined 5227 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 11 of 14 29 December 2010 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
I also routinely recommend Esperanto for people who had a frustrating experience learning
another language at school and think that they're not smart enough to learn a foreign language. Esperanto is the
only language that "pulled me along" rather than me having to find the motivation to study day after day after day.
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I absolutely agree with that. After self teaching myself a relatively small amount of esperanto, and realising that I
was capable of holding a conversation, it gave me the belief that I was more than capable of learning another
language, which I never had when learning Italian at school. While I know next year I won't have the time to
dedicate to learning a language, 2012 should be the time to get cracking at it, mi esperas...
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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5086 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French
| Message 12 of 14 29 December 2010 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
I played a Brazilian instrument that looks like an oversized archery bow and sang in a language I don't know the name of - or even if it was a language.
You probably played "Berimbau". Capoeira fighters play it while people are fighting.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6475 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 13 of 14 04 January 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
I just came back from the Junulara Esperantista Semajno (JES), the New Year's event
that lasts 6 days. It was near Berlin this time, so I didn't even have to travel far.
Some highlights for me were
* practicing various languages in the aligatorejo. There were even 7 people who
had studied Mandarin, including one Japanese girl whose Chinese accent was really good
and whose German was incredibly native-like. If not for her appearance, I would not
have guessed that she wasn't a native speaker, even half an hour into the conversation.
Plus she wasn't very comfortable speaking English, proving that there are interesting
polyglots who can't easily be reached through English.
* meeting other polyglots, including one who spoke 9 languages of which only two
overlapped with mine
* having my first ever Swahili conversation (two of the participants had studied it)
* teaching a mini-class of Swahili to 20+ interested people
* watching Conlang, Que Sera Sera and "The Linguists" (a documentary about studying
dying languages)
* organizing a Feuerzangenbowle night (watching this classic German movie with
Esperanto subtitles + drinking flaming spiced punch)
* playing Go whenever I felt like it
* attending concerts by Gijom, La Perdita Generacio and others
* simply hanging out day in day out with old and new friends
Check out doviende's blog posts about the JES:
geeks-impressions/">http://www.transparent.com/esperanto/jun ulara-esperantista-semajno-a-language-
geeks-impressions/
http://languagefixation.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/jes-journal -dec-27/
http://languagefixation.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/jes-journal -dec-28/
Edited by Sprachprofi on 04 January 2011 at 9:44pm
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| Sveju Pentaglot Newbie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5438 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Italian, Greek Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian
| Message 14 of 14 14 April 2011 at 12:18am | IP Logged |
Hi! I'd love to meet other HTLAL members off-line!
I'm going to take part in my first language festival near Genova, Italy from April 20th to April 26th. The language meeting is organized by the Italian Association for Esperanto and, therefore, deals mainly with Esperanto.
However, there will be a part of the programme for other languages than Esperanto ("Lingvejo") and I'm going there mainly because of that. Lingvejo will enable the participants to speak a number of languages (Italian, German, Spanish, French, English...) and to be helped by native speakers in the process.
For more information on the festival, click on one of the following links :
http://iej.esperanto.it/ijf/2011/index.eo.php
http://iej.esperanto.it/ijf/2011/
For more information on the programme Lingvejo :
http://iej.esperanto.it/ijf/2011/lingvejo.eo.php
http://iej.esperanto.it/ijf/2011/lingvejo.php
(You can read the text in other languages on the website)
Hope to see you there!
Julien
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