Medical Officer Medkip learn Latin afterward

Dito

And how did that happen?

Ya i agree I never knew about the word rapid Which is in esperanto Rapida

Indeed? Like what?

I'm gonna make it Russian to torture the populous with an impossible language to learn.

Where do I sign up for your army?

Blarghalt Can you crown me king? I'll be your puppet controlling the masses on your behalf :P

Tiwaking Tiwaking "Free West"? Obviously you haven't met the NSA...

***** Haha jes ja :) Mi plenumos ambaŭ postenojn; reĝon kaj Dion.

Did it work?

@@isaiahdunk753 she gave up on both lol.

If you go to a new country and try to communicate with someone, you'll have a better chance at getting your point across if you speak english instead of esperanto.

It depends on your definition of useful.

@@somedude2492 Tio ne estas la okazo ĉie. En Hungario, vi povas aliĝi al Esperanto klaso kiel via necesa 2a lingva klaso, do ekzistas bona ŝanco ke ekzistas multaj hungarianoj kiu parolas Esperanto. In Hungary, you can take an Esperanto class as your required 2nd language class, so there is a good chance that there are many hungarians who speak Esperanto.

@@Bahrta_sai in my small sample size of two hungarians i know, both of them know english and neither of them know esperanto. English is definitely more popular, i think.

@@somedude2492 2 hungarians is hardly a sufficient sample to prove anything. You may be right, but 2 people isn't enough to prove anything.

Olivier Hullot Totally agree! When I first started studying Esperanto I did an hour every few days for three months until I went to my first Esperanto meeting. Shockingly, I found myself able to converse in the language! Something impossible with my four years of Japanese study.

Yes, the sound itself is a mix of Polish, Yiddish, Latin grammar definitely Spanish All these different sounds/musics open up the mind. With the simple vocabulary and sentence forming is interesting I met a Mongolian woman speaking to a Frenchman in an Esperanto cafe in Tokyo.....fascinating

Olivier Hullot lol I learned french in 5 months

Wul Vershon howd you do it in 5 month I want to learn french but that’s quick ?

I studied both Esperanto and Interlingua. Esperanto took me about one month. Interlingua about two hours.

Ču vi lernis la Esperanton?

Sadly, I lost interest after awhile.

Mi pensis tion

Takes like 10 mins

Mi kredas je vi. Vi povas fari ĝin.

Your English is great!

Or you can learn latin.

@@edgarazevedo1306 Totally less enjoyable and more discouraging. Source: I tried.

@@edgarazevedo1306 or you can learn Esperanto and then Latin

Molodets !

How'd it go? I justed started yesterday lol

@@FreakishSmilePA How are you doing with Esperanto guys? I'm a little busy with English and French now but I hope to study it in the future

@@user-hg1jp1uf7w how are you doing now? i started learning it yesterday and i am already able to understand lots of it

It's honestly almost like a modern day Latin.

iVulgarThrust Arguably Interlingua has a better claim to being a "modern day latin." It's worth remembering that Latin was never massively spoken, its place was primarily in trade and the writings of nobility (the idea of writing in the people's vernacular was an idea that didn't take hold in Europe until later). The languages spoken by the citizens were the various forms of vulgar Latin.

Magnolia Lautzenhiser Oh gosh, you're totally right ;D. I understand the thing about Latin, it was/is like an acolytic/aritocratic language, I just meant in the way that you're able to put a word anywhere in the sentence without changing the meaning, but you are entirely correct. I had no idea Interlingua was a thing. Thank you kindly for the info :).

@@Maggie-lm8th You write as if there always had been a diglossy Classical-Vulgar Latin in Roman society, whereas initially they were only two different registers of the same language and began to drift apart only when the written norm became fixed and fossilized.

Hi, do you mind sharing your app’s name? I want to learn it.

@@stevenqi1571 A lot of people use Duolingo.

@@Ballykeith Thank you very much.

Just learn English and be done with it.

@@mpgnz73 A wise man once said that "skill is not simply knowledge, but the resonance that comes of seeing how different facets of knowledge reinforce one another." Sadly, not everyone can appreciate that, nor are those facets mutually exclusive.

i can see what the guy is saying it opens up the minds of children because of how simple the language is but in reality where is this going to lead them??? this will be a skill they give up on after schooling 1st they wont have to learn it anymore 2nd theres nobody to speak it with and 3rd there is no esperanto speaking country no homeland what a boring culture/language

I scrolled down to write : "No more cocaine for this guy." and found I had been anticipated

Sylvianisme In the real world, you'll find that some people are just happy.

The point of it is also to become an international language as it is taught in schools and optimizes mutual comprehension among people in the word. A business and journalism language as well as for just chatting with others. Anyone can easily learn it and it would work a lot easier than everyone learning English. If people get on board in large enough numbers it could go somewhere, but it probably isn't.

96war1 First, they may give it up but the skills involved in learning it, as you agree, opens their minds to new things, as well as making it far easier to learn another language and/or advanced grammar because you're being introduced to something different (new neural pathways are being formed in the child's brain). Second: two arguments here, yet the can co-exist. The first is that it doesn't matter if there is not a huge group of people to speak it with because (A) the kids can speak it amongst themselves and with their teachers, and (B) even this small amount of exposure to the language can have many benefits (see first point). The second argument here is that in fact there ARE many people with whom to speak Esperanto, more than there are for many natural languages and up there with many others (examples include Lithuanian, Hebrew, Danish, etc.) if the children choose to further their education in the language. Third, that's one of the most interesting parts: not only is there an Esperanto culture, but it also allows for a huge level of cultural exposure. There are tens of thousands of Esperanto speakers from China, Germany, The US, Japan, Africa (no single African country can claim such numbers), Brazil, etc. So many people from so many countries whose firsthand cultural knowledge is now open to you regardless of whether you speak their language or they speak yours (and everyone can't just learn English: it's one of the most confusing mish-mashes of a language on Earth, making it incredibly difficult to learn, and even those in other countries who can claim some knowledge of English cannot claim fluency, for the most part. You'd be hard-pressed to go into a random country anywhere in the world and find a truly fluent English speaker).

So I was bilingual from birth ! Esperanto and French... And I never really learn english language... At school I've learned German and Spanish...

Israel Lai It's not just Esperanto numbers, but the entire system is very logical!

yes its the same way of japanese

im still surprised eight is ok

Evildea it makes sense, a language specifically crafted to be utilitarian should work efficiently like that

Unu, du, tri, kvar …

Hola, yo hablo Español xd ¿cómo te va ahora con el Español?, ¿lo hablaste un poco más?

PD: The Pennywhistle is awesome, i play it and listen to a lot of folk metal bands that use it

I played recorder in primary school and cannot play anything else. I remember the hellish noise it used to make.

Plus, the recorder is used in professional music too! A well-played recorder sounds so beautiful. You wouldn't judge the value of the violin as an instrument by how your five year old nephew plays it, so you shouldn't do that with the recorder either!

kiel vi fartas

is it really? im starting too

+Adam Kolowitz pardonon, sed Esperanto* lingvo*

Steve Kim dammit! Well maybe not then... lol

+Adam Kolowitz vi ĉiam povas korekti/redakti vian frazon :) per eraroj oni lernas, sed ne bonas montri eraran frazon se vi scias la ĝustan. Tiel vi ne misinstruos la aliajn :P

I don't know a word of it, and I understood that, so I should think so!

+Adam Kolowitz Jes, tre facila

estas facilega

Christian Hackett Jes! Mi amas trovo esperantistojn! Saluton! Pardonon, mi estas komencanto esperantisto.

ankaŭ mi estas komencanto xD

Ha, yay. I've only been learning it on Duolingo a couple of days and I understood everything you said and I'm amazed at how much I am understanding over all.

Mi povas parli esperanton

I learned Spanish in high school and college (figured it was the most useful out of Latin, French, and Spanish in high school), and I have found it to be extra helpful in learning Esperanto.

I'm French, and indeed, I learned Esperanto very quickly. In fact, thanks to speaking English and German and Spanish, and having studied Latin, I knew about 95% of the vocab before beginning !

The correlatives in Esperanto are not easy, yet they form 10-20% of most Esperanto text.

I think the correlatives really are easy, and I had no problem learning them. Only practice is required.

Ĉu vi nun flue parolas?

Jes!

+Hayden J Saluton! Ĉu vi jam ĉeestis kelkajn esperantajn aranĝojn? Ĉu en via lando, aŭ eĉ alilande?

I can´t believe I understood all of what you said, and I have only one day learning esperanto

@@alejrandom6592 And that my friend is the magic of esperanto

Very nice. Mi amas Esperanton. Ği estas tre amabla lingvo.

+Ken Collins HAHAHAHA

Ken Collins i

Bona, ankau mi estas komencanto en esperanto🙋

@@bhagya_radhakrishnan I've only been studying for Esperanto for nearly 2 days and I understood what you said 🤯

Doktoro Esperanto suggested Italian as the ideal accent for the language.

It has happened a lot of times since your comment. I would like to know more about your opinion. I have been learning English for 1 year and a half and now I am struggling. Is it a good idea to learn Esperanto at the same time while I am trying to improve my English ?

jes mi tute konsentas. kiam mi parolas esperanton mi sentas min tiel malpeza :) gxi estas multe pli facile ol aliaj lingvoj. kiam mi parolas ion ajn alian lingvon mi devas multe pripensi ecx en mia denaska lingvo.

It isn't the New Latin for 101 reasons.

@@thursoberwick1948 would you care to list them?

@@hullcityafc72 No, I wouldn't. There's too many. But for starters Latin was the language of an Empire.

@@thursoberwick1948 But this was one of the underlying arguments given by its founder, Mr Zamanek, that Eseranto was apolitical, untainted by power

@@hullcityafc72 I know. Which makes it different from Latin which was the language of church and empire.

Esperanto media is limited in its own way. Yes, I am aware that most translations into English are from particular languages, but you are much more likely to find a translation of something into English than any other languages including Esperanto, except maybe those from their local areas. I own books translated from Estonian, Icelandic, Farsi, Latin American Spanish and Maori.

hahahah

Héhé ! Mais faut pas oublier que la tête de lapine n'a pas d'os !

oh la langue anglaise n'est pas facile. "what to call a baby rabbit" et non "how to call a baby rabbit".

I can provide you with some information on how to learn it. Since youve expierenced learning spanish im sure you would find learning Esperanto much easier

@@carsonpiano1 That would be amazing! I actually recorded two famous pop tunes that were translated into Esperanto. You can find them on my KZfaq Channel.

What do you think about advantages of Esperanto in terms of career?

It is true fro any language. In Esperanto this process is just faster because no Esperanto speakers are ''proud'' of their accent too much and try to neatpick every sound like people in other cultures, for example, in Russian, do.

+Matúš Lešťan Partly. Esperanto remains useful.

Absolutely ! Absolute Esperanto restas uzoplena ! Plie Esperanto fariĝos pli kaj pli utilega !

English already serves the "first easy language" purpose while also being awfully useful. And just in advance, I'm tired of native English-speaking Esperantists going out of their way trying to prove how incredibly hard English is compared to Esperanto. Problem is, languages don't exist in a vacuum. Just because Esperanto might _objectively_ have more regular grammar and vocabulary than English doesn't make it easier to aquire when considering the sheer and overwhelming cultural *domination* of English aroudn virtually every single corner all across the globe. How many humans over the age of, say, ten wouldn't be able to tell the meaning of words like "yes", "no" or "OK"? Two percent? Five percent at the most. And almost every single one of them would be the kind you'd be extremely unlikely to ever interact with: some uncontacted tribes in the Amazon or Bedouin elderly who are on their deathbeds anyway. And out of all the _major_ languages out there, English really _is_ the easiest. It shares a good chunk of its vocabulary with some of the most prestigious and widely spoken languages on the planet, such as Spanish, French or German and it has historically influenced countless territories all around the world. The likes of Chinese, on the other hand, might have a comparably simple grammar but they're very inclusive when it comes to both their writing system (shared only partially by Japanese) and vocabulary (outside China it's virtually only Burmese). I'm sorry but English simply trumps all over Esperanto-and any other language for that matter-in every aspect imaginable.

Don't worry, I'm sorry, but english is just the worst goobbledygook all around the world I never look !

@@yarpen26 English is a really easy language, as long as you aim pretty low. :-) It doesn't have gendered nouns, you don't need the subjunctive, it largely does without noun cases, the conjugations are simpler than many European languages... so yeah, for the beginner, it appears to have a lot going for it. And of course in terms of opportunities to practise in so many places around the world, you just can't beat it! However, after the initial burst of progress, learners of English end up on a post-beginner/pre-intermediate plateau that is very very long indeed, and which involves years and years of learning things one at a time. Phrasal verbs (hundreds, nay, thousands of them). Greek/Latin pairs of words that are almost-but-not-quite-synonyms (e.g. "liberty" vs. "freedom"). Words that might work figuratively but not literally (e.g. "profound" vs. "deep"). Pronunciation and word stress to memorise for every single newly acquired item. Idioms that are obvious to native speakers but impenetrable to others. The list goes on. English certainly has its uses, and I'm very happy to be an English speaker. But experience - mine, and that of many many others - suggests that teaching or learning Esperanto goes an order of magnitude quicker than teaching or learning English as a foreign language, if you're aiming any higher than A1-A2 level.

Who told you Esperanto had no practical use? People use it everyday, is that no practical use?

do you know of any languages which aren't artificial? i don't know of any which weren't created by humans. the question is - how was the language created? take for example french which is governed by the academie francaise and was only spoken by 20% of french people in 1800. or how about finish which didn't exist until 1900. or nynorsk which was created in the early 20th century. the difference between esperanto and those languages is mainly that esperanto was created to be easy to learn and allow people to communicate easily.

The ears of the elephant is very big and its nose is very long. Yes indeed

it's is it is its is possesion other than that 👍

@@fuitbythefoot omg thanks for helping me find an ancient comment

Thanks for your insight. You're right that convincing parents of the value of a subject is often a hurdle to overcome. You could point to China Radio International regularly broadcasting in Esperanto, or that the current president of TEJO (the international organisation of young esperantists) is Vietnamese, or that other committee members come from Japan, Philippines, Nepal, as well as numerous European countries. It's a language that facilitates contact with people from all sorts of backgrounds.

And an inability to stay still for three seconds.

what makes it easier?

@@OBnice777 Simplified grammar with no irregularities, phonetic spelling, complex words are built up from simple ones etc. It has some weird features but this much is true.

Consider Tagalog. Widely considered the easiest language to learn.

Really? I have studied both Esperanto and Tagalog. 12 hours of Esperanto and I could communicate. 6 weeks in the Philippines and a couple of courses as well and sorry but Esperanto in 12 hours taught me more than months of Tagalog.

do you have a source for that claim, Richard? Guinness Book of Records? US Foreign Service Institute?

Ahahah this made my day 😂

Brilliant way to reduce the vocaublary that is required to learn.

***** You want to reduce vocabulary so learners need to remember less words. You do that by adding suffixes or affixes. Some examples: To make a noun female, add "-ino" instead of "-o" to the noun. To make a (non-human and living) thing male add "vir-". To make it plural add "-oj". To describe a collection of things add "-aro" To make a noun an adjective add "-a". To make it a job add "-isto". To describe the offspring add "-ido". With these rules you can create words. Lets say you learned the word for "tree" which is "arbo". Now you instantly know the words for: "trees" - "arboj" "forest" - "arbaro" "tree like" - "arba" "female tree" - "arbino" (maybe in sci-fi/fantasy) "male tree" - "virarbo" "seedling" - "arbido" "someone who works with trees for a living" - "arbisto" Next you learn the word for "sheep" which is "ŝafo". Now you instantly know the words for: "sheep" - "ŝafoj" "flock (of sheep)" - "ŝafaro" "like a sheep" - "ŝafa" "female sheep" - "ŝafino" "male sheep" - "virŝafo" "lamb" - "ŝafido" "shepherd" - "ŝafisto" When you learn all of these rules you can greatly reduce the vocabulary without being less precise. (In fact Esperanto is more precise than most languages, arguably including English) PS. "landscape" and "nature" have different words in esperanto as they mean different things.

The point of Esperanto was never to be the main language of communication for people in any given culture; it was to allow people from different cultures to be able to easily communicate with each other. Basically, the role that English currently plays in many parts of the world, except far easier to learn and not tied to any one culture.

father-woman*

which city are you in ?

Correlatives are horrible though.

Mostly European from what I can see, although the agglutinative aspect, i.e. piling on prefixes and suffixes resembles some languages elsewhere.

Search lernu . n e t on google. Probably the best way to learn esperanto.

Thanks man!

Tim Morley I will try now, I'm on holiday and just finished my last day at work now. Thanks for the answers!

***** Definitely do lernu.net, and possibly use memrise.com for vocabulary if you need it.

Try italki.com you Will find a teacher there

Kio tio estas?

Because schools are usually horrible at teaching languages.

Stop talking about me :( :P

ok what did he do to you

The months also make sense in Korean, unlike Esperanto

RantGod u should use Duolingo it's good for learning

Homemade Movies Yup, I've been using it. I oike it.

RantGod Use lernu after about 10-15 "stages" on Duolingo. It starts you out with a higher difficulty than Duolingo, but helps you in ways Duolingo can't. You should use both, and write down the words and ask yourself questions. It all helps a lot

Joseph Quinto Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.

Tell you what, since it sounds like your world language is still at the hand-waving "wouldn't this be a good idea?" stage of development, here's a list of 500 or so other world languages that you could use for research purposes. Good luck with yours! eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listo_de_planlingvoj_kaj_planlingvaj_projektoj

Here's a question: do you know _anybody_ within your little Esperanto community who is also not fluent in English?

Jes! Mi.

yarpen26 China has a good chunk of non English speaking Esperanto speakers, as well as other pockets in other again countries. The San Marino city state inside Italy has some native Esperanto speakers who only knew Esperanto for most of their early life.

@@yarpen26 Oh yes, plenty of people. I mean, it's unusual to find someone with no notion of English at all, but it's very common to find that someone who uses both Esperanto and English is much more comfortable and capable in Esperanto than in English.

Well esperanto is mostly based on various european languages, but it can be useful for learning any other language because it gives an easy entry to learning how languages work in general

Swahili it is for me, then!

Fun thing it was made by a guy from Poland soo it have a litlle slavic influenc

Because Esperanto grammar is so flexible and creative, speakers of many non-European languages have also seen substantial benefits to learning Esperanto first before other target languages (for example, Japan, Korea & China). There should be no difference in your experience with this when learning African languages; Esperanto will help.

Probably not. A lot of African languages have taken words from French, Spanish and Portuguese though. But... Esperanto takes words from English, German and Russian which *don't* descend from Latin.

Kiu parolas Esperanton? People in just about every country you can name! Not everybody, not even most people by any stretch, but enough people from a huge variety of backgrounds to make Esperanto-land an interesting place to spend time, whatever country you happen to be in at the time. Tell me whereabouts you live - what region of what country - and I can let you know about events you could go along to, if you like.