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Do All Journalists Speak Esperanto Now? | ||
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 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 1 of 45 31 July 2009 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Within 7 days, there have been 9 long positive articles about Esperanto in the media, mostly from big players like the BBC, the German public TV, Deutsche Welle, the Times Online... This is a round-up of the articles and of course the underlying questions: why Esperanto? Why now?
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5842 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 3 of 45 31 July 2009 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting observation! I look forward to reading your post. Perhaps the time for Esperanto has finally arrived? Maybe the journalists are beginning to see the lights and the public will follow suit.
I am regularly reading the blog of a Swedish journalist (of "Sydsvenska Dagbladet") who runs a fairly extensive Russia & CIS centered blog. He is another example of a journalist who is fluent in Esperanto and writes in it sometimes. (He mainly writes in Swedish but sometimes in Finnish, Russian or Esperanto). If speakers of the above languages are interested, his blog is at: "Diverse" -- Kalle Kniiviläs Rysslandsblogg Several times he has mentioned other Esperantists as his sources in places like Tadjikistan and Abkhazia. It seems that by becoming an Esperantist you tap into a worldwide network of helpful and like-minded people. Perhaps other journalists around the world are clueing up to this. EDIT: The article on Sprachprofi's blog is really good and the links are worth checking too. Highly recommended! Edited by cordelia0507 on 31 July 2009 at 8:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5865 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 45 01 August 2009 at 2:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Sprachprofi. Interesting blog. I need to start learning Esperanto soon.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 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 5 of 45 01 August 2009 at 8:41am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you! Please digg it if you like the post, I'm trying to get it somewhere visible ;-) Btw, I heard of journalists using Esperanto to get information from Cuba and Iran. Icing_death, maybe you'd like to attend the online lecture I'm giving on August 9th? It's a comprehensive overview of Esperanto grammar, with lots of chances to interact, and by the end you will be able to translate a two-paragraph text in Esperanto. After this introduction you will know enough to learn Esperanto just by reading texts (as Tolstoy did), though I'd still prefer a course with a communicative approach. Edited by Sprachprofi on 01 August 2009 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5865 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 45 01 August 2009 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Sprachprofi, I can't do it right now (too busy with French), but I will get back to you. I dug your blog:)
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6015 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 7 of 45 01 August 2009 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sprachprofi,
I think you've got your dates mixed up -- Edufire says it's a week tomorrow. I'm considering popping in myself, but I'm not sure yet. I'm kind of scared of Esperanto, because one of the things I'm enjoying most about studying multiple languages is building up a natural feel for how words have evolved and being able to guess words in other languages. Esperanto uses common European word roots, but the connection between them and the words in other languages... well it hasn't evolved, it was just chosen and I'm worried it'll interfere with my understanding. I don't suppose an hour would hurt, but I don't think I'll ever really study it.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 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 8 of 45 01 August 2009 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for catching that, Cainntear. I edited it now.
I also enjoy seeing the evolution of words, it's actually one of the parts of my degree, Romanistik, to trace Latin words to French and other modern languages. For me, Esperanto fits right in as a further step AFTER French, Italian, Spanish etc. but also with some fresh loans from Latin, just like loans in French can have a different degree of freshness (e. g. père and paternel both from Latin pater) and distortion by having a Latin word come in through another language. Anyway, one hour of Esperanto will not be enough to change any intuitions, and most of the lesson will be about the structure of the language anyway. I think you'll enjoy getting a glimpse of it; quite apart from any simplification there are some features that will delight any linguist. And the class is for anybody who is curious - most of the people who come don't actually plan to learn the language, and I can respect that. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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