Esperanto: a rare but alive language

[@esperantoviro]

My husband is from Brazil and I was born in the USA, though my first tongue is German. So we now speak Esperanto at home so that we both speak a language that is not our birth language. It is working out great. Especially since Esperanto gives you the possibility to create new expressions from existing roots. We often coin funny new phrases to describe things - but the coolest part it that any well versed speaker of Esperanto would immediately understand. Yes, I speak Portuguese (and American) English and he is working on German (and also speaks American English) but having this neutral language has bonded us in a way that no ethnic language could. On top of that, it keeps us internationally minded, not just focused on one country or region. It also helps us acquire other languages more easily.

[@Sundrobrocc]

ĉu vi povas doni al mi ekzemplon de viaj amuzaj frazoj? mi tre volas vidi😁

[@maknyc1539]

how do they know the terms that you coined?

[@J.A.NGUYEN]

​@maknyc1539 its because esperanto uses root words and then attaches suffixes to it to create more meaning. So as long as you know the root word and what the suffixes mean on their own you can guess the meaning of new words you come across.

[@carsonpiano1]

@@Sundrobrocc Du jaroj sen la ekzemploj... kiel mi pluvivos?

[@galostick]

"100,000" now it has just over 2,000,000 speakers, thanks to duolingo and memrise. how cool!

[@RoyMcAvoy]

Yeah, duolingo esperantist here :D

[@sorenpx]

I've seen estimates as low as 60,000 and as high as 2 million. The truth is that we just don't know. There are certainly far more people who know a little bit of Esperanto than who can actually read, write and speak it competently. Perhaps there are 2 million who know a handful of words and some basic grammar.

[@coaster165]

Lol yeah I just started.

[@genesis209_gd]

I'm actually learning esperanto rn

[@momoslayedtbh]

I just started learning it today

[@Maliceking]

I thought Esperanto was ridiculous as well. Then I started learning it. The language has real potential!

[@kaskade333]

it could have

[@volixian]

It could have? It does have.

[@ParkerDewrell]

+Kare yeah I hear that it's growing. but I doubt that we will use it as a universal language.

[@jakub.kubicek]

It is actually a more natural language than I firstly thought hearing about its regulatity. I started learning it from pure curiosity, but now I have become really enthusiastic about the language.

[@RoyMcAvoy]

I'm learning Esperanto now through Duolingo. I can say that the language is easy to learn because it has a very logical structure.

[@sumw1634]

Hi! I think the reason for Esperanto not be able to catch on 50 years ago was because it was suppressed all the way. It was pretty popular in Europe before WW2. But because of Zamenhof's Jewish background, Hitler banned its use. It was also banned by Stalin, who banned its use in Eastern Europe where the language was popular. It then gradually became forgotten by the majority until recent times.

[@AtlanticGiantPumpkin]

He didn't just ban it because Zamenhof was Jewish (though that had a lot to do with it), but also because its values were a direct threat to the survival of Nazism. The philosophy of Esperanto is to encourage multiculturalism, equality, freedom, democracy, education, all things Hitler hated. He killed Zamenhof's three children. Esperantists were targeted for extermination.

[@alexhando8541]

It almost got adopted as the language of the League of Nations, until France got the proposal chucked out.

[@razr-x9666]

Had ww2 been in the way the language could have 2 to 3x as many speakers today considering nowadays there are more than 2 million speakers surprisingly...

[@정윤-m6l]

wow

[@Hihrise7733]

In WW2 the people who could speak esperanto were sent to concentration camps and killed but those people taught it in the camps to other prisoners by tricking the guards into thinking it was Italian

[@AkiraElMittico]

only polish, Russian , English and French? she forgot to add Spanish , Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and what else ? lol

[@acalifourchone]

Hebrew

[@graypetcoyle]

It’s a mix of a lot of languages, sometimes you can’t just list them all. I’m sure she had to fit a 2-2:30 time slot and couldn’t go on too long

[@johanfagerstromjarlenfors]

It is basicly a mix of indo-european languages

[@CenturionKZ]

This woman is totally wrong - the Esperanto IS NOT any kind of mix. Such statements just push people away from learning it, cause one starts to think that it's just kinda klingon or elfish joke, where it's not! Esperanto is unique! Although it took most of its lexicon from Latin and some other languages, it totally differences from all of them and Latin itself. Its grammar structure is so elegant, logic and genius. Even if there weren't other Esperantists and tons of books, it would worth to learn Esperanto only for its elegance itself.

[@kuayinal-kadir6846]

I thought it had some Arab in it to or something like that

[@ala-lash3710]

People might not understand the benefits of speaking Esperanto, since most places that you go to, you won’t find people speaking it. But just the fact that I could go from Canada to someplace so foreign to me like China and all I would need is one Chinese person who can speak Esperanto, and we could talk. Neither of us speaking our mother tongue, but understanding each other. That is SO EXCITING! That is so AMAZING! That’s connection! I love it!

[@iii1298]

Al A-Las H it truly is. I just hope that one day it gets more publicity. Or maybe even make it a requirement in schools all over the world.

[@tom-m-media]

Neither of us speaking our mother tongue, is indeed an important point. English is sort of Universal, but belongs to some countries.

[@sarahgroves1063]

Tom. M. Also it is quite hard to learn

[@Blaze6432]

@@sarahgroves1063 Not really. Written English can be difficult. But unless your really incompetent, spoken standard English is pretty much one of the easiest languages to pick up. No verb communications, no object genders, and relatively easy sounds found in most languages.

[@mattiamele3015]

Blaze6432 I disagree with your last statement. For a lot of people around struggle with English pronunciation, and if one wants to pronounce it correctly (with all the vowels, the th sounds and so on) it's really difficult even for most European speakers.

[@Lingvamanto]

It was good to see an Asian speaker of Esperanto. This language's structure has some similarities with those of non-European languages as well, i.e. its use of particles that stick together to form new words, such as in Japanese or even Nahuatl (native American language), for example.

[@mateuszmazurek7991]

well maybe but let's not lie that it isn't very much europe-centric

[@andrewpinedo1883]

⁠@@mateuszmazurek7991The vocabulary certainly is Eurocentric though, being derived almost entirely from Romance and Germanic roots.

[@MsFreakyFree]

Today already over 2 Million people speak esperanto and i´m gonna learn it too :) But i have the possibility to learn it in class so it is more eaasier than learning alone.

[@Brijako1]

Really ? Are you hungarian ? Aux nun se vi vere eklernis Esperanton, ĉu vi venas el Hungario ?

[@modestoca25]

2 million? yeah right...people who only know some words and phrases but don't use it fluently...

[@sheepketchup9059]

@@modestoca25 if we count those it would be a much bigger number.

[@abdurahmonabdullayev5747]

carry on learning Esperanto!

[@FenriZz]

Did you learn it?

[@tasha777]

I had to come here to find out what Esperanto is. I'm learning italian on duolingo and just got an email from duolingo saying that they added a few new languages on their site. Turkish, Esperanto and wait for it...... Klingon!!

[@k98killer]

+this comment will self-destruct in 10, 9, 8 Mi pensas, ke vi intencis diri "nun jen estas la kurso".

[@qh4ckwat469]

+tasha777 Pff: learn tuscan dialect

[@tasha777]

+InfinityEræn really?

[@qh4ckwat469]

tasha777 Yes

[@tasha777]

+InfinityEræn how come?

[@damianloder6080]

Let’s all move to an island and speak this language 🤷‍♀️

[@vixenlover2369]

Sounds like a great idea.

[@marco.trevisan]

Sciigu min, kiam vi trovas tiun insulon. Oni jam klopodis fari ion similan, vi povas serĉi pri «Isola delle Rose».

[@cansino1636]

My idea🥛

[@srbinsamo]

Go please, omg you're such a boring person. Are you jehovah's witnesses

[@peartree7912]

I am trying to learn it and get my friends and family too as well, mainly for fun but I would like to see it become a bigger language for all to speak

[@LanguageSimp]

gorgeous

[@thato596]

In all honesty. It sounds nothing like english like some people like to claim. You can not understand what they saying

[@carsonpiano1]

I didn't expect to see you here

[@table5584]

@@thato596Good thing American didn’t take esperanto like they did with Canadian and australian

[@JoBalDez]

También se parece mucho al español e italiano, no solo tiene base en esos idiomas que nombró... Para mí como español, es muy fácil.

[@dieweltsprachen5032]

This is something that´s been on my mind for a while about languages and how they interact, particularly lingua francas. Esperanto is without a doubt interesting. The downside to world languages though is that they tend to suppress other languages when they gain in traction. Not by force/design but simply because people view it with high regard and knowing it comes with tangible benefits in the form of upward mobility. This is why this language (English) has so many Latin words: Latin is and was prestiges. This effect can be observed in Japan, where companies for example, put English onto and into everything, even when it´s not needed. People obsess about needing to know English, despite never themselves really needing it beyond answering a few basic questions to the occasional foreigner. It´s a fascinating topic.

[@anthonynaprstek1902]

I couldn't disagree more. Esperanto is already sparking up! There is actually a college that teaches IN Esperanto, as in the teachers only speak in the language, located in San Marino. Also, I do not know where the reporter got her facts but there are over 300,000 people actively using Esperanto, as of 2001. And there are estimates that at least 1 million people KNOW Esperanto today.

[@MyWissam]

Do you know the name of the college? (Which San Marino?)

[@crafterrium8724]

@@MyWissam San Marino is a city state located in Italy, so there will be only 1 college there

[@MyWissam]

@@crafterrium8724 thank you

[@LinguaSerbia]

It's an incredible language and indeed easy to learn, you'll see the results of learning pretty quickly!

[@ernestoromero3816]

Alright I’m in. How can I start learning it? I’m already a native Spanish speaker and English speaker as my second language, I known some Italian. But, Esperanto has caught my eye now!

[@nKLsblahvlahblah]

Duolingo has an Esperanto course

[@universenerdd]

@@nKLsblahvlahblah jes, sed mi audiaû rekomendas librojn en Esperanto, čar gi helpas vin konversaciaj kababloj.

[@saintcelab3451]

English took the job of Esperanto eventually... That was not quite expected back in the time.

[@eternitynaut]

+Larry Lyu It will change like ligua Franca always does. Will the next one be Esperanto? It's unknown. My guess is that Asian and African nations will not accept it since it's too European, just like English. They will make up the majority of the world, once their collective economies surpass the West this century, they will have no incentive to keep English as an international language. Any one language from China, India, Nigeria, etc. could have a better chance by next century. Once space colonization starts, whichever gets picked in the end will start to diverge as well and become different. The only real fix is a real time language translator. We have those already but they are not yet adequate. That will change in time.

[@saintcelab3451]

kalimul I don't know... since no constructed language has ever become a lingua franca before. Also, the influence of Internet would probably slow the process of changing lingua franca. Aramaic died out but i don't think this would happen to English as well; at least in another 1000 years.. (unless someone nukes our planet). Esperanto is a language made out of Romance languages and English, while English is a Germanic language which had borrowed vocabularies from many other languages... So yah, my conclusion is i'm not sure about it since the history of Esperanto is like the history of US..

[@GeeljirePower]

@@saintcelab3451 Lol lingala has

[@Aethelhadas]

isn't it already?

[@Blaze6432]

@AcidDome lingua franca is a language used as a default language for communication across linguistic barriers. English is almost always your go to language.

[@erisi6204]

Can't wait to learn more of this language.

[@Sebbir]

I think the biggest reason to learn Esperanto is because it’s an extremely effective springboard into learning any other language

[@yonavlad3723]

Did u learn it?

[@mateuszmazurek7991]

and it's so easy to learn

[@adrien1623]

really?

[@TravisHoeffel]

There isn't only 1,000 speakers that number is a lie. There are 1-2million speakers.

[@garouheki4720]

and it sounds lot better than fucking english, i wish esperanto was the dominating language

[@htfcm]

There is no real way to verify that. So, that can be perceived just as incorrect as 1,000 speakers.

[@htfcm]

Garou Heki That is highly subjective. I for one disagree with that statement whole-heartedly. I know quite a few people who would agree with me.

[@Hyperlingualism]

It isn't that verifiable, actually. Using conservative estimates of people who speak the language to a significant extent, there's only about 10,000-30,000 speakers worldwide. Not 1million.

[@louiskendall8520]

There's 1000 people who speak Esperanto as their first language.

[@jameshihihin1320]

100,000 7 years ago? Now it’s over 2 million

[@SpaseGoast]

I'm a native english speaker. I learned Esperanto so that I too could switch over to another language to speak when I didn't want people around me to understand what I was saying. It is just the same as how non-native english speakers do when they switch to their native language in front of you to hide what they are saying.

[@ARCStudiosyt]

SpaseGoast I learnt it as well for that purpose among others.

[@cansino1636]

Me to

[@AlekséjAntipov]

English is a national language. Esperanto is an international language. La angla estas nacia lingvo. Esperanto estas internacia lingvo.

[@a0um]

The fact it’s regular makes it easy to make words to capture new meanings. In an ever changing global society it’s such a great asset! This tool can enables collaboration and creativity.

[@garyrector7394]

To say, as the reporter does, that Esperanto is "a mixture of English, Polish, German , , ," and so on is such an extremely misleading remark. Even someone else who comments later in the video says something similar. This is like saying that Engflish is a mixture of Dutch, Danish, French, Latin, and other languages. Such comments are based on a lack of understanding of how languages work and of what Esperanto actually is. Esperanto is a wonderful tool for exploring language and communicatiing with people in many countries. No matter where you go, there's almost always somebody who speaks Esperanto, and they almost always can say a lot more in it than they can in English.

[@garyrector7394]

Craig Bryant Although the sentence structure of Esperanto is very "Indo-European," at the word level it's agglutinative, which is something that Finns, Turks, Hungarians, Koreans, Japanese, and so on can feel at home with. Anyway, borrowed words don't make a language a mixture of the languages it has borrowed from. If that were the case, we'd have to say that Korean (with about 70 percent of its vocabulary taken from Chinese) was mainly a Sino-Tibetan language!

[@garyrector7394]

***** In a sense, all languages are. constructed. It's just that the so-called "ratural" languages are constructed in a rather haphazard way. (Esperantists call those "natural" languages "national" languages, because they're associated with nations and their various ethnic groups.) They are bound by social convention rather than logic. The natural human tendency is to generalize and make the rules of grammar regular, which is why, for example, English-speaking children have to be "corrected" when whey use forms like "knowed," "bringed," or "teached" instead of the irregular past forms we use by convention. There are no such irregularities in Esperanto, and you can even make up new words by combining the radicals you know, as long as the new words follow the rules (of which there are few) and make sense. What could be more natural than that?

[@Evildea]

***** Esperanto started as a conlang, but it's now the native language of some fourth generation Esperantists. It has evolved way beyond it's origins. It has developed internal slang and ideas. So yes its origin is artificial, but it's certainly not anymore.

I don't know anyone who speaks it. If you asked the average person in the street, most would not even know what it is.

[@UnKynneyValley]

I am doing Esperanto in Duolingo, and I like that easy language. The problem I have with Esperanto that it has little or no dialect for that language. People speaks in different ways, even if you and others speak the same language, live in the same country, live in the same region, and probably know each other, dialects could help which place you live. Dialects could make Esperanto more natural and also bring diversity in the language.

[@mchobbit2951]

Since Esperanto speakers are from all over the world, they pronunciation and word order varies, often making it sound like a dialect. I can tell whether an Esperanto speaker in French or German or Chinese.

[@nokaton]

Even by listing to the sound clips in Duolingo, I can notice that one guy is from Spain because he always mispronounces v as b and his Spanish accent is so strong.

[@Caramuel]

100 000 speakers plus about a half of million of users that actually finished the course on Duolingo since 2017. The number isn’t really important but the power of meeting a stranger who is your friend from the very beginning anywhere in the world (from Mozambique to Alaska). Amikumu enables this.

[@48caro]

How condescending! So Esperanto is still a very modestly used language,( the media picked the lowest possible estimate of the number of speakers), let's not forget the English been around far longer than Esperanto has. Esperanto may never become a big language that doesn't mean it isn't worth learning even in it's present state and it doesn't mean it is not international. And as for people who say I hope it dies-what's it to you? Do you think everyone should be like you? What time frame can you put on a made-up language to 'succeed' anyway?

[@PabloOlbapPablo]

English is way harder then Esperanto though.

[@modestoca25]

Learning Esperanto is a waste of time, just like learning Klingon or Elfish or whatever it's called.....Even learning Latin would be more useful since it has legitimate roots to Romance languages and even English and is used in legal/medical/scientific fields.....Esperanto is just made up garbage....

[@cimmik]

Esperanto is not made up of garbage. It is made of other languages, which gives it the same legnitimitation as latin.

[@skinsey85]

@smart thinker It's an artificial language. It wasn't created naturally. It was created so people who spoke another language could communicate while retaining their own native language. It's interesting but it's pointless considering it never took off as the guy who invented it hoped it would have.

[@Brijako1]

@@modestoca25 Wrong ! You are lying ! You can read news in Esperanto, there are congress each week, radio programm in Esperanto... You do't have sources, you write what you wanna believe !!!

[@Naskisuno2]

mi parolas esperanton !!! saluton eksde argentinio

[@playboy8b]

We have to grow Esperanto

[@MyWissam]

Imagine how much time “learners of a foreign or second language” would save if the did not have to expend effort on learning irregularities, or the gender of nouns (like a table)...

[@dumbbvitch1700]

Isn't every language invented by humans at one point. Which language can be described as innate in the human mind. Perhaps it's facial expressions or a type of language that is not phonetic in origin that can be truly be called innate.

[@qorilla]

No, normal languages were not invented by a single person. They evolved and grew naturally over generations.

[@arbonac]

Perhaps we passed gas before the first facial expression. That action WAS followed by the first facial expression which what then followed by the first word. That word was probably "Ew!".

[@kitube14]

FichDichInDemArsch The entire point of the language is to be simple and easy to learn. To have universal rules, no irregular verbs and other "bugs" which languages have that evolved over time. To think that a language invented by one person is stupid because it doesnt have richness and beautiful complexity is completely closed minded. People like you is the reason innovation and advances are slowed. You would have been one of the people to say that Galileo is a liar.

[@arbonac]

***** Why the vulgar speech?

[@arbonac]

You are like a vulgar 13 year old. What good has vulgar speech ever brought you, or anyone for that matter? What benefit is it to you? It is like a spasm guttural spew of a diseased mind. Arrest your thoughts and curb your impulses. You may yet find happiness.

[@VassiliiVassilievici]

vivu Esperantujon, nian belan mondon!

[@zdzisawmikoajrogalski4492]

Vi pravas!

[@habibi9497]

Mi amas Esperanton!

[@GiantPetRat]

Anybody interested in this fascinating language should definitely read "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Erika Okrent, which devotes several chapters to it. What a great read! (No, I'm not Ms. Okrent, I swear).

[@garyrector7394]

You're right. That's a great book.

[@Evildea]

Araxie Rose That book is ok, it makes a few mistakes. If you wanted a rundown of the language just read Wikipedia or search videos on Esperanto.

[@spookycandytheater270]

Evildea! I watch your videos. O-O

[@Evildea]

***** Oh awesome :D

[@MsFreakyFree]

Some language projects aren´t only ment to work in one life time. Language is a slowly process in evey culture. They didn´t suddelny spoke new dialects or languages. I bet that back in time the people had struggles with other languages too. The more people learn it the more is a chance to let it grow and maybe in two or three generations it will have much more followers than now. But well every start is small and sometimes it doesn´t matter if it won´t work in one humans lifetime.

[@andrew55944]

touché i made a mistake about grammar, but, as I'm an italian speaking person, pronunciacion is actually the same, and as regards words, romance lenguages come from latin, and italian is the son of that lenguage as regards words and pronunciation, so I think I'm right saying that this is a lenguage coming mostly from latin lenguages. However german lenguages also gave vocabulary, but it's quite far from saying that they gave the basics, or saying that they were the most important lenguages used.

[@kaden4418]

Mi ricevas la demandon: Ĉu Esperanto estas "via" lingvo? Kaj mi diras, jes. Ili demandos, kie ĝi estas parolata? Mi diros, mi ne certas kie. Homoj demandos min, ĉu ĝi estas malofta, mi diros, ke ĝi estas malofta.

[@furtivedolus2504]

Thanks to the internet, Esperanto has a million or two speakers these days.

[@furtivedolus2504]

@ Do we have the precise number of people who can carry on a conversation in classical Latin?

[@CenturionKZ]

Thе speaker is totally wrong - Esperanto IS NOT any kind of mix. Such statements just push people away from learning it, cause one starts to think that it's just a kinda klingon or elfish joke for nerds, where it's not! Esperanto is unique, solid, live and very expressive communication tool, potentially better than any other! Although most of its vocabulary was taken from Latin and some other languages, it totally differences from all of them and Latin itself. Its grammar structure is so elegant, logic and genius. Even if there weren't other Esperantists and tons of books, it would be worth to learn Esperanto only for its elegance itself.

[@francegamble1]

Miaj infanoj kaj mi parolas Esperanto. My kids and I speak Esperanto.

[@George-iv1hi]

@Rohan Dahiya Pluta Akuzativo MANKAS al li. "Manki" estas netransitiva verbo.

[@George-iv1hi]

@Rohan Dahiya Pluta Sal. Nedankinde.

[@ninaburkert9470]

Lol, I know the family from the beginning and I saw the sister of my old best friend.

[@ismaelmad1]

Esperanto aŭ alia elpensita pli bona estu starigita kiel la sola oficiala lingvo en ĉiuj internaciaj forumoj. Sufiĉas, ke denaskaj anglalingvanoj naskiĝas kun privilegioj super aliaj!!!

[@lycanrocmare6345]

Estantas naska parolanto de Angla, ne povas konsentas pli! Angla parolantoj estas tro obstine kie venas lerni lingvon. Ĉi tio deviĝos ilin igi determinis lerni!

[@fitzburg63]

@@lycanrocmare6345 English is not eternal... it will be replaced by other language of the ruling superpower in the future, like Chinese.

[@lycanrocmare6345]

@@fitzburg63 While Chinese is high in numbers of speakers. The reason English became such a largely used language is because the amount of colonization. So moreso French or Spanish (that's unlikely though, unless they start taking over English speaking places, which I doubt.)

[@fitzburg63]

@@lycanrocmare6345 You may doubt or not, always the so called global language was the one of the superpower of that time - Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, now English... x in the future.

[@lycanrocmare6345]

@@fitzburg63 You're probably right.

[@mickgibberish5626]

Seriously this language is so easy to learn it’s mind blowing

You still have to learn all the vocabulary, which is a major task.

[@DAINSTYY]

I started learn it

[@TF-ui9fz]

A universal world language would be amazing

[@hauntologicalwittgensteini2542]

You mean english

[@carsonpiano1]

The Eternal Anglo, no... English is hard and you can’t express as much emotion as in other languages

[@Omouja]

@@hauntologicalwittgensteini2542 no, because English it's to anglocentric, a "neutral" language is what we all need

[@kiboma4209]

@@Omouja it’s still not neutral tho, I advocate for Toki Pona which is a mix of many Asian, European, African, and Austronesian languages. Let’s be honest, 90% of Esperanto is European with only few words coming from some Asian languages

[@kiboma4209]

@@carsonpiano1 Esperanto is more expressive but not exactly the best for non Europeans

[@seanoriain8294]

Esperanto is an independent living language, which has been used by 5 generations in over 120 countries. It does have roots in European and Asian languages (for syntax and word formation). But calling it a "mixture" is like saying that "English is just a mixture of German and French"!

[@aryastark772]

It was intended to be learned as a second language for everyone. But English has already done that

[@N00bcrunch3r]

Particles are very different from affixes. Affixes are syllables that are actually a part of the word; particles are separate words (hence why they are called "particles"). P.S. The Asian speaker is Chinese. Chinese is devoid of both affixes and particles (particles that serve a morphological function anyways).

[@MarkNJ20]

Really interesting.. I'd love to learn Esperanto some day.

[@thiagoballestero7042]

MarkNJ20 there is a great course on duolingo for english speakers Bonan matenon :)))

[@Max_Jacoby]

Third day I'm trying to find anything worth watching in Esperanto but nothing. There're just "Hello and here I'm, speaking Esperanto, look at me". I'm not even asking for second VSauce or Veritasium, I'm just looking for anything which is transmitting any bit of useful information. Are there any?

[@neniugrava]

The idea that something must have videos to be worthwhile is a bit strange. Esperanto is about talking to people with whom you have no other common language, not making videos. For me it's about having the ability to learn and maintain a second language without spending a ton of effort (and then having no one interesting to talk to). It is a nice feeling when you have had a meaningful conversation with someone and realize that they don't speak any English. Beats most videos I've watched.

[@verdamaro82]

mi bedauras ke vi havis tian sperton. Se vi daure volas spekti ion, vi povas skribi pri viaj interesoj kaj mi provos sercxi ion.

[@viktoriamonsalve4539]

Just started learning Esperanto and it’s really fun to learn and is really easy so far love it! Gi cu bona! 😁 if it’s not written right sorry haha still learning

[@ComicAcolyte]

I think this could be the first universal language

[@bugface8565]

Well why didn't he teach me how to congregate verbs then?

[@pacmanfan1214]

+Alex Schlough 6 verb forms. Infinitive, present, past, future, conditional, and imperative. Esti - to be, Estas - is, estis - was, estos - will be, estus - would be, estu - be! (like screaming at somebody to be... something? o.O) That's it. Root word, tack the verb ending onto the end. There are no exceptions, like is/was, it's completely regular every time. The standard is infinitive, which is what you'd find in a dictionary, and you can change the meaning by changing the ending. -i infinitive -as present -is past -os future -us conditional -u imperative There ya go, you now know how to conjugate verbs in Esperanto.

[@philharris1967]

easy Paroli speak Mi parolas I speak Mi parolos I will speak Mi parolis I spoke mi parolus I would speak Parolu! Speak! same rule applies with every verb. gg rekt no re

[@D600Active]

Esti = To Be Iri = To Go Mi estis = I was Mi estas = I am Mi estos = I will be Mi iris = I went Mi iras = I go / I am going Mi iros = I will go There are also compound verb forms that use the same pattern of -i=past, -a=present and -o=future. These have two places to put i/a/o, so you can combine them to make nine different tenses. Important not to overuse these forms though, you can get by in most situations using the simple (non-compound) tenses. Mi estis irinta, I had gone (before a time in the past) Mi estis iranta, I was going (during at time in the past) Mi estis ironta, I was going to go (after a time in the past) Mi estas irinta, I have been (before the present) Mi estas iranta, I am going (during the present) Mi estas ironta, I am going to go (after the present) Mi estos irinta, I will have been (before a time in the future) Mi estos iranta, I will be going (during a time in the future) Mi estos ironta, I will be going to go (after a time in the future). Now how long would it take to learn all those different tenses in for example French?

[@D600Active]

@ Yeah same. Didnt take me that long to be able to go to Esperanto meets and understood most of what was said and chat a bit. Several years into trying to learn French I'd struggle beyond the most simple of conversations, even if the other person was speaking really slowly.

[@MounirNsouli]

We never speak anything other than Esperanto *said in French by everyone in this clip

[@Ofordgabings]

DO NOT read the comments. I know it's just a language video - what could go wrong? Well it's full of degeneration, stupidity, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, and spite. Shocking, for such a non-controversial topic. But what can you do. Degenerates are everywhere these days.

[@AtheniCuber]

+Darkwisp Don't worry, we can get together and shoot up all the Loglanists.

[@TheKeKe313]

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH in this comment. Preach.

[@diouranke]

well said, there r even native languages w less speakers with Esperanto n people don't disparage them

[@XXRolando2008]

How 'bout I do anyway.

[@dc8890]

So anybody who thinks that learning a more widely-spoken language would be more useful is a "degenerate"? And you think you're the one who is being open-minded?

[@greenlemon5259]

I’m starting to learn it

[@MawoDuffer]

Well the problem with English and German is that learners can speak them very broken. Germans have been recording history for years that has yet to be translated. I think Russian is better at communicating faster because there’s no filler words like” it /is “

[@ironjade]

Mi lernas Esperanton kun Duolingo. Mi satas gin sed ne estas facila.

[@carsonpiano1]

I wish they added Esperanto keyboards so people can actually type the characters

[@George-iv1hi]

@@carsonpiano1 But we easily can: ĉ ŭ ŝ ĵ ĝ ĥ. What's the problem?

[@carsonpiano1]

On iOS I’ve found no way to type it without going onto a site and copy pasting it. It sucks

[@Brijako1]

I personally have an Esperanto keyboard on my phone, though I wasn't an Esperanto speaker at all when I got it. I suppose it depends of the phones.

[@skadihuntress]

Esperanto is very Spanish tho

[@graypetcoyle]

Skadi it has heavy roots in Latin, and some people argue that either Spanish or another romantic language is closest to Latin, so it makes sense

[@graypetcoyle]

花ちゃん I said “some people argue” because I’m not an expert in language and didn’t want to just say something definitive and be wrong

[@hollowhoagie6441]

@@alexeltita I was told by my romanian friend that multe (A lot) is a romanian word. So I guess I know a wopping 1 word in romanian

[@Brijako1]

Many Esperanto roots come from French, Latin and sometimes Italian. But Esperanto's initiator, Zamenhof, didn't speak Spanish. So even because of this romance influence, many Esperanto words seem to come from Spanish ones, this is not the case; they simply share romance elements. We can say exactly the same thing about Romanian.

[@modestoca25]

@@hollowhoagie6441 multe, molto, mucho..it's likely from Italian, there are lots of Spanish-Italianesque words.

[@patriziavoiglio5305]

I'll learn Esperanto and I'm going to become an esperantist

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

Joe is it glimt?

[@masterjunky863]

Beautiful language

[@modestoca25]

You drink that koolaid...

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

@@modestoca25 shud

[@abelma2175]

Mi preferas esperanton.

[@monsusneux619]

ĵus eklernis Esperanton, mi konas la bazajn vortojn, en ĉi tiu komento estas kvin vortoj de la tradukisto

[@hsavietto]

The sentence in the beginning of the video sounded Greek to me (in the literal, not the figuratively meaning of the expression).

[@lurileyloo4541]

Mmm yes i will try to learn esperanto bc learning more than 3 language dont work for me, and i want to connect with other people of different culture i guess

[@ronaldcorpuz6908]

saluton! Mi estas filipino kaj mi praktikas esperanto-lingvon

[@polygongaming8859]

Saluton! Kiel vi fartas?

[@baronmeduse]

Knowing absolutely nothing about Esperanto and having a strong (usually negative) opinion about it is so very much more common than actually speaking it. It's typical that the woman opening this report makes a completely false statement about it, even after (presumably) having researched the piece. Ridiculous.

[@edonan85]

Word roots were mostly taken from germanic and romance languages. While its pronunciation could sound similar to Italian, its grammar has little to do with such a language.

[@loganford6483]

It’s not a “combination” of those languages. It’s a separate language constructed from Indo-European roots

[@Brijako1]

It is important to note that the grammar is not Indo-European. Please read the article "Esperanto, a western language?!"

[@grivar]

2% comments: Esperanto is great. 8% comments: Esperanto sucks. 90% comments: WHY IS EVERYBODY SO NEGATIVE?! (100/172)% comments: This comment.

[@dc8890]

I don't think it sucks, but I absolutely DO think that you would be FAR better off learning a language that is actually used. You would open up job opportunities, chances to meet new people, chances to see new cultures, etc. You would always be able to get a job as a translator. Perhaps the most useful languages in the world these days would be English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, things like that. Or learn any other language that you want to learn. Even languages with a relatively small number of speakers will probably have more speakers than Esperanto.

[@wallys11000]

Just saw a movie in Esperanto and didn't know what language it was. Didn't sound like any specific language and now I know why. Never heard of this before.

[@ronaldonmg]

If it was the movie "incubus", those were esperanto-words, butchered by William Shatner

[@leenobody3249]

Does she often break a finger then?

[@diegowilsonhuamanrodriguez492]

Esperanto language sounds more italian than french!

[@GearZNet]

Diego Wilson Huaman Rodriguez It's backbone is Latin I think.

[@Evildea]

Diego Wilson Huaman Rodriguez Funny, when I speak it my wife says it sounds Japanese! Guess it depends on your background :)

[@ChakkyCharizard]

+Evildea Japanese? That is my second language and I think Esperanto sounds a lot more like Spanish or French than Japanese!

[@Evildea]

ChakkyCharizard｜Chakky-P Well, she's native Chinese and that's what she tells me. She says it sounds Japanese.

[@qh4ckwat469]

+Diego Wilson Huaman Rodriguez My main language is Tuscan and a little part is similar to Esperanto

[@Vagabund92]

I learn Lingua Franaca Nova(LFN/ELEFEN )because it is also easy and will get me into romance languages

[@modestoca25]

Why not learn a useful, wide spoken Romance language so it's easier to learn other Romance languages? duh...

[@Vagabund92]

Well, that will work either, though you will gain proficiency faster in a constructed language

[@Vagabund92]

well, yeah... if you want a real language, then better go for the real language ^^

[@Angeli28]

Esperanto estas bona lingvo

[@Bluestone_Games]

you could of not dubbed it. I would of liked to listen to what the language sounds like

[@TheRTM]

I never knew this language existed before today.

[@George-iv1hi]

You never knew a lot of things, ignoramus.

[@Brijako1]

@@George-iv1hi Please calm down. Sadly the media does not often talk about Esperanto, no one is guilty for not knowing about it!

[@clotho5437]

of all the languages you list of as a mix, you ignored the biggest two Catalan and Spanish. These two comproses 61% of the vocabulary, meanwhile the rest of what's stated in this video serves as around 10-11% each

[@wolfhounddog391]

A language to fight nationalism but it doesn't contain every language in the world and is more like an attempt to unite these particular countries into a Union forgetting that these countries have cultural ties with other nations

[@AV9000x]

its not meant to fight nationalism

[@wolfhounddog391]

@@AV9000x think harder its trying to break down barriers and stop tribalism

[@AV9000x]

@@wolfhounddog391 no sir, no it is not

[@wolfhounddog391]

@@AV9000x WOW

[@AV9000x]

@@wolfhounddog391 OWO

[@patchapman4882]

What a good report! I am one of many people who for decades have argued quietly that institutional support for Esperanto as a lingua franca could bring many benefits to Europe. Esperanto is not a utopian dream. It works! I’ve used it in speech and writing - and sung in it - in about fifteen countries over recent years.

[@txosue26]

Esperanto IS NOT a mix of languages. It has an exclusive grammar and the vocabulary is fulled with linguistic loans from the most worldspreeded languages. (Romanics, some german and some slavic) With the exclusive grammar (adaptable to easy translations for a english, a basque or a japanese) the esperanto becames the most logic and well-structured language for international learning and use. Esperanto NE estas lingvamiksado. Gxi havas unika gramatikon kaj la vortaro estas plenigita per internaciaj lingvaj pruntojn (Romanikaj, iom germanika kaj iomete slava) Kun unika gramatiko (facile tradukebla por anglulo, euxskulo kaj japanulo) esperanto farigxis la plej logikan kaj bone-strukturan lingvon por la internacia lernado kaj agado.

[@filomenarocca2794]

Esperanto was created in the late 1800s by L.L. Zamenhof, a Polish linguist. The grammar was not "made of latin, italian and spanish;" it has a very free word order, with nominative/accusative case endings. The pronunciation is also very free.

[@yeasinnur8631]

mi estas el Bangladeŝo. mi iomete scias esperanton. mi amas ĉi tiun lingvon.

[@marco.trevisan]

Ankaŭ mi! :)

[@yeasinnur8631]

@@marco.trevisan ĝojas aŭdi😊

[@marco.trevisan]

@@yeasinnur8631 Mi lernis esperanton antaŭ 24 jaroj, kaj de tiam ĝi estas grava parto de mia identeco. Mi ne povas imagi mian vivon sen esperanto!

[@EvertonLions]

The weird thing is I never studied Esperanto but can understand some of the words they say

[@woochatming9917]

What is your first language ?

[@Maxjeix01]

actually there are 2 or three millions of speakers

[@yeezet4592]

I would say fully fluent speakers number around 300,000 now. The large number is people who know the basics

[@Maxjeix01]

@ True

[@MlSHKlN]

"in hopes that its open mindedness, will eventually conquer the world" lol

[@okay9906]

*Sanskrit is also an invented artificial language like Esperanto !* *Tamil is the original universal language of humanity !* "And the whole Earth was of one speech & one tongue". -Genesis 11:1, Holy Bible.

[@andrewpinedo1883]

As a purista esperantisto, I wonder what people in this town think of the 'iĉ' suffix.

[@carsonpiano1]

Mi dirus, ke mi uzas "iĉ" sed mi ĉiam forgesas 😭

[@anindomahmud8276]

Saluton! Mi estas komencanto en Esperanto. Bonvolu respondi su vi parolas Esperanton.

[@Brijako1]

Saluton kara samideano!

[@gregorioganesh4551]

So how is it international if it's a mix of just a few European languages?

[@MrWongkingsum]

Dont you know there is a thing called Esperantido? If people starts to pay attention to this language and begin reforming it by replacing the European vocab with non-European vocab, it will become more international.

[@48caro]

Admittedly Esperanto is mostly European in word stock however like English there are words from non European languages as and I noticed that it has a few words that are also in Hindi like ananas-o, bazar-o, pijam-o, chemiz-o, chambr-o, ĝangal-o (pronounced like jangalo). These are every day words not culturally specific words. Did you know that Europe is not a nation? therefore anything involving different nations of Europe is in fact international? You would you say an event involving India, China and Japan wasn't international?

[@ronaldonmg]

@@MrWongkingsum Yes, there have been dozens.... all created by people whose ego got in the way of them consulting other reformemuloj...

[@maximusaleixxus6343]

One of the many great things about the Spanish language and Latin is that its in several continents.

True, the same goes for English.

[@JanuarArifin92]

Mi amas la esperantan lingvon.

[@Azulblueone]

#RiseEsperanto I'm learning Esperanto :D Mia nomo estas Fredy. Mi estas 22 jaroj. Mia logxas en North Carolina. Gxis!

[@ratedpending]

Esperanto has 2M speakers not 100K

[@k98killer]

La angla en ĉi tiu video ne estas helpema. Mi volis aŭskulti esperantajn parolaĵojn :/

[@VanegeEsperanto]

Ŝajnas ke Cyrille Hurstel estas ĉie! (Radio Verda, Malfermo de la UK, Jutubo ...)

[@philharris1967]

saluton mi sxatas vian kanalon mi estas komencanto sed mi komprenas ciuj cxar mi jam sxias la hispana.

[@thiagoballestero7042]

Vanege Via akcxento Esperante estas belega :)))

[@undine8750]

This feels kind of wrong. It's like the native speakers have had something important taken away from them and replaced with a toy replica of it.

[@samueljardanhazy8214]

what?

[@carsonpiano1]

Not only is Esperanto as rich as natural languages but it is also never the only language that someone speaks. It's to accompany someone's native language not replace it

[@BenjaminHartleyReturns]

@@carsonpiano1Tell that to your friends in the comments above in the thread that called for it to be mandated by law around the world.

[@carsonpiano1]

@@BenjaminHartleyReturns While I personally don't support any language being mandated by law, ask any Esperantist if native languages should be REPLACED with Esperanto, and they will say no.

[@Walter.Quiroz]

I heard the first speakers biased by their first language. (French).

[@patriciamcgeorge2575]

Mi tre voliras tiam - gxi aspektas multe bone kaj tre amuze! (Cxar mi estas esperantisto)