pluiepoco

chiara, good evening!

Here is my first post in this E-forum, and firstly I'd say that I know too little about Esperanto, but I have a reason to say something...

The aim of Esperanto is to become an international language, to be spoken by people boudary-less, but the reality till now is that, it's far from successful.

Can it be an international language one dayÉ

Maybe, I think firstly for one language, whether natural or manmade, if it's going to be a global one, it must bear overwhelming features, that is:

1.not only to translate many cultures from other languages, but generate voluminous literature, of its originality;
2.to be spoken by a great majority of population.

But the fact is, till today, Esperanto is labouring on translating from other cultures, it cannot even produce its own culture and literature, and its vocabulary thus does not come from its development of culture and language, but from the other languages and cultures of the composers who usually use those other-than-Esperanto languages more often since as their mother tongue as well as the most frequent available one in ordinary life.

And Esperanto lacks believers, here I say of believers, just because the ones who learn or speak Esperanto before doing this can even master more than one or two natural languages and use them quite often, and mostly they are linguists, so the population of Esperanto movements is limited only to a small group of language lovers or linguists, and common people who only use one language, that is, his own mother tongue other than Esperanto, could find impossible or unbelievable to choose to learn this unrealistic language!

And third, as I said before in other post, Esperanto is son of latin still. It cannot represent all of the world, it does not overlive.

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chiara410

Hello there

first of all i'd like to say that esperanto has got its own books and music.
i assure you there's many bands that make music in esperanto and sell cds over the internet ! there's people who write books directly in Esperanto.
you can check with any search engine.

Esperanto words come mainly from Latin as i said before.
But, having studying latin for years, i can say that the only thing in common
are the root of the words. The structure of the language and the grammar have got nothing to do with Latin, i assure you !
Latin is total mess !

Esperanto was invented by a Polish Hebrew doctor at the beginning of 1900. His dream was to create an international language.
Actually Hitler used to persecute Esperantists being afraid they might exchange secret informations or something.
And he wasn't the only one who believed the language could work.

This doctor was from Poland and he naturally used Latin... obviously he couldn't invent a language based upon an oriental language !
The Roman Empire was as big as what today are 40 countries.
Latin influenced the local languages.
Therefore, if Esperanto cannot be a world-wide language , it can be a common language for many. Much easier than any other language.


the fact is not Esperanto itself... it's the idea. Learning another language involves learning the culture too.... why do i have to be drowned in English and American culture ???? why do i walk in the streets of my city and see
advertising in English ??? why do American tourists come here and are surprised we don't speak their language ???
Why do Great Britain earn 18 million euros every year only 'cause the rest of the world must learn their language (teachers, books, courses, foreing students in English colleges etc...)??????
Esperanto (like any other artificial language) belongs to no-one.
No-one is mothertongue, no-one has got an advantage.
Therefore it's fair.
I'm trying to say that having an international language would be really really great for all of us.
Among all the artificial languages (Lara, Solresol, Goesk, Ûqoi, volapük) Esperanto is the most known.
Unfortunately, as far as i know, it is only taught at a University in Hungary and at the University of Turin in Italy.
In some European countries there have been some kind of experiments with children. They quickly learnt the language and could speak fluently .... much quicker than they did with English !

i don't think Esperanto lacks believers... nobody is sure, but we believe there's at least 2 millions people who can speak it over the world.
Esperanto is only 1 century old, it's a good goal, isn't it?

btw if anyone wants to check out
there's an easier version of Esperanto , it is called Ido (which means "son").

that's it... sorry i speak too much !

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pluiepoco

I agree,

Since The Europe is becoming a whole one gradually, as its Constitution is up now. I do think that one day when all Europeans speak Esperanto, and I wait for that.

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pluiepoco

Hello, chiara!
I must remind you that, Esperanto is taught in China. In many universities, it's taught as one kind of foreign language.

So, it's considerably successful.

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