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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7022 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 25 of 33 05 April 2006 at 8:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Hear hear! The answer to the question posed by the thread might be "Why not?" P.S. Andy, how's your Klingon coming along? ;) Edited by patuco on 05 April 2006 at 9:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Felixelus Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6845 days ago 237 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 33 05 April 2006 at 9:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow this thread has taken off again!
You be surprised by the lack of resources in book stores for learning Esperanto...I found more resources for learning Klingon! *laughs* so why do people judge you to be a time waster if you say your learning Esperanto? People have little respect for artifical languages in my experience. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6950 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 27 of 33 05 April 2006 at 11:03am | IP Logged | |||||
I was more surprised by this. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6950 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 28 of 33 05 April 2006 at 11:08am | IP Logged | |||||
What type of translations do you do? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6897 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 29 of 33 05 April 2006 at 11:31am | IP Logged | |||||
Chinese>English translation (mostly in the field of education). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdanfo Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6892 days ago 11 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Studies: Latin | Message 30 of 33 05 April 2006 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think you're right regarding the specific people who are drawn to a forum like this one, but the people who post here seem to be a pretty specialized group. If you're going to promote an international auxiliary language, you need to reach the average Joe and Jane. The object of an IAL is to have as many people speaking it in as many different societies as possible. English fills this role now. Why is that? It's because people want to watch Hollywood films, read Shakespeare and the Wall Street Journal, and understand what George Clooney and George Bush are saying on the evening news in Bangkok and Berlin. If interesting stuff that's relevant to the lives of American everyman starts coming out of Tokyo in the future, then Americans will probably make Japanese a priority. If Esperanto wants to become more widespread, then it needs to follow the same model -- in every society on earth. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cro Magnon Newbie United States Joined 7142 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 31 of 33 06 April 2006 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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I like Esperanto. It's easier than Spanish, and it would be nice to be able to learn one language and be able to communicate with people around the world.
The problem is, there is little practical reason for most people to learn it. All of the international languages like English, French, and Latin were learned because they were connected to a powerful country. The less common languages like German or Dutch are learned because you might want to visit their country, or do business with them. Esperanto has none of those advantages. It's interesting, but not to the average person who only learns languages for pragmatic reasons. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| easyboy82 Pentaglot Groupie Italy Joined 6837 days ago 72 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek | Message 32 of 33 11 April 2006 at 12:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Esperanto is a dream,I don't think it will ever be a great international language but surely it is already a community language for the Esperantists.For instance,did you know that there is the possibility of going on holiday in 80 countries without spending an Euro,staying at other Esperantists' home (there is a book of addresses published every year).
Then there are many conventions and youth conventions every year. I haven't yet took part in them but i hope i will sometimes in the future. So learning Esperanto can be a very funny experience,even for life! :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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