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| A.M.P Newbie South Africa Joined 3991 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Esperanto | Message 1 of 4 21 June 2013 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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Hi. I am learning Esperanto and I am curious about when I should start with output? How much input should be done first?
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5191 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 4 21 June 2013 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
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There is no reason you should delay speaking the language, but there is no doubt that speaking will be more difficult at the beginning, so you need to be patient with yourself. You also won't get any better at speaking unless you speak, so you do need to push yourself a bit.
When I learned Esperanto, I read about the rules of the language (which doesn't take long!) and tried to familiarize myself with the vocab briefly, and they I tried reading texts with a speaker who would ask me questions about the text, which forced me to reuse the vocab and the structures I was learning. If there's a language where you don't need to know much before you can start playing around with it, it's Esperanto, so why not take advantage of that? My goal from the onset was speaking because I knew I was going to attend an Esperanto conference. Your reasons may differ and speaking may not be at the top of your priorities. Regardless, there is no damage to avoid by deliberately delaying speaking. Edited by Arekkusu on 21 June 2013 at 8:34pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4517 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 4 21 June 2013 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
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Arekkusu has it right! Furthermore, the satisfaction of speaking early is the reaction of
people's faces when you do. I personally tend to speak quite early in my studies and I am comfortable with it. There are people that want to understand a lot before they speak - I am a firm believer in practice though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6407 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 4 of 4 21 June 2013 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
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It's all up to you. If you don't know anyone who speaks it and have no interest in looking for Esperanto speakers in your town, you don't have to.
Just be sure to do a lot of listening. Sing along to songs, too. If you do it right there will be a point when you WANT to read aloud and/or talk to someone. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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