Esperanto gatherings, culture, and literature

[@neilnachum1]

The flute/recorder of languages, nice 😊 :Esperanto!

[@alanguages]

The kazoo would be Toki Pona.

[@richardpodnar5039]

You and Stela are spot-on about Esperanto, as a starter language, is a pathway to learning other languages more easily. I try to convince everybody I meet that this is so, and they usually don't believe me until they, too, become immersed in a love of Esperanto.🙂

[@hogbenfan]

I'm sure Zamenhof constructed Esperanto with the aim of it being good for writing poetry and literature, even though his main goal was to create an easy, neutral means of communication to breakdown misunderstandings that arise due to people speaking different languages. Interesting counter argument: According to [Interslavic] co-creator Vojtěch Merunka, there had already been more than 50 attempts at creating a common Slavic language in the last 300 years, .... [making] the mistake of using it as a “high-level language for the Arts” which, as he explains, “always will be the domain of national language because each national language has its own spirit, its own nature and its own culture.”

[@HaydayBOSS]

Mr cox i miss you I am I’m Spanish 2 and it’s not the same without you

[@hogbenfan]

There are plenty of people on the Internet who want to argue that Esperanto doesn't have a culture, in the sense they want to define culture. Clearly it has held gatherings since 1905, and there are novel, short stories and poems written and published. Can anyone set themselves up as a judge and say this is not literature? As I see it, culture is what develops when a group of humans meet, whether in a school or a workplace or an Esperanto gathering. I think there is such a thing as skateboarder culture and x-box culture. So I have no reason to doubt that Esperanto culture arises and grows when people speaking Esperanto interact and that the culture persists between these contacts.

[@5thkiechannel]

One of the things that drew me to Esperanto is specifically the opportunity to create our own culture

[@acido_pty8072]

Nice channel, I learn English for end

[@danielhulker2543]

As someone who has studied Esperanto (albeit not to any degree of fluency), it truly is the easiest foreign language I have ever studied. My only real gripe was the verb transitivity which didn’t seem consistent.

[@ricardooliveira9774]

Kind off topic but related... Sometimes I have the impression that esperantists (not the language, Esperanto) are more liberal, is it inherently from the philosophy of the language or by the community? Again, just my impression, from the community of my country.

[@ricardooliveira9774]

Well, it's sort of related since the community is part of the culture, right? I'm just going further to politics.

[@9393Technate]

This is because we were killed by Authoritarian often right-wing regimes for speaking Esperanto/being associated with the goals of esperanto (I.e. Internationalism) This is more-so a historical thing and experiencing other cultures through a shared lingvo

[@sahulianhooligan7046]

Is there a Esperanto cuisine? Traditional Esperanto attire? Esperanto architecture? Esperanto accent?

[@smguo1677]

can i ask you to give me a private lesson？

[@smguo1677]

English lesson