Saturday, September 04, 2004, 19:32 GMT
>Mxsmanic : Esperanto may be academically interesting, but it is useless from a practical standpoint. Study it if you're interested in it for its own sake, but don't assume that it will ever be of any use in the real world. The language has never really gone anywhere, and most likely it never will.
Personally for me esperanto is really more useful than english to meet people of others countries and to speak with them : my level of english is far too bad for a good comprehension ! I like english and I find it useful on the Internet for example, but it's not the language I would use to meet people of others countries.
For example you can travel with it with the project "pasporta servo" (http://www.tejo.org/ps/), you can meet people of the entire world in congresses (http://www.eventoj.hu/2004.htm), ...
You could say "More people speak english, so it' can help you making all these things !". Yes, but in english I can't really express myself and understand, so... esperanto is the best way for me to meet other people and to discover other cultures !
English is really more useful today... but not for all things ! And I think that in the future the place of esperanto will be more and more important ! For example in hungary you can pass it at your exams, and it's a real success : it's now the 3rd language learned as option and passed in exams in only 4 years of availability ! It shows the fact that it can works and that people find it useful to learn and use !
Have you another solution for me to meet and understand people of the whole world at a low price ? I can't afford paying for expensive language-travel in UK or USA to improve my prononciation and knowledge of english, and with only few hours of free esperanto courses it gives the same result !
Often people who are english native speakers are thinking that it's easy for us to learn their language, but that's wrong, and the level of english of french people is very bad ! Esperanto is a good solution to speak well very fast...
>Ed I love Spanish, but I hate Esperanto
I can't understand it :) Have you really ever heard someone speak esperanto ? ;)
>nic Xatufan ¿De verdad te gusta el español? Bueno, espero que puedas hablarlo, porque si no, no podrías leer esto, ¿no?
I don't speak spanish, but in fact without knowing a language we always can understand some things ! For example :
La suno estas bela. -> The sun is beautiful
La floro estas blua. -> The flower is blue
Mia nomo estas Sébastien -> My name is Sébastien
La kato dormos en la domo -> The cat will sleep in the house
Mi trinkis teon, kafon, kaj akvon -> I drank some tea, koffee, and water.
(in esperanto, the nouns allways finish with -o, and the adjectives with -a.
-as is the end of verbs used at the present time, -is is the past time, and -os the future)
You don't speak esperanto but I think that you understood these sentences ;)
See you soon !
Personally for me esperanto is really more useful than english to meet people of others countries and to speak with them : my level of english is far too bad for a good comprehension ! I like english and I find it useful on the Internet for example, but it's not the language I would use to meet people of others countries.
For example you can travel with it with the project "pasporta servo" (http://www.tejo.org/ps/), you can meet people of the entire world in congresses (http://www.eventoj.hu/2004.htm), ...
You could say "More people speak english, so it' can help you making all these things !". Yes, but in english I can't really express myself and understand, so... esperanto is the best way for me to meet other people and to discover other cultures !
English is really more useful today... but not for all things ! And I think that in the future the place of esperanto will be more and more important ! For example in hungary you can pass it at your exams, and it's a real success : it's now the 3rd language learned as option and passed in exams in only 4 years of availability ! It shows the fact that it can works and that people find it useful to learn and use !
Have you another solution for me to meet and understand people of the whole world at a low price ? I can't afford paying for expensive language-travel in UK or USA to improve my prononciation and knowledge of english, and with only few hours of free esperanto courses it gives the same result !
Often people who are english native speakers are thinking that it's easy for us to learn their language, but that's wrong, and the level of english of french people is very bad ! Esperanto is a good solution to speak well very fast...
>Ed I love Spanish, but I hate Esperanto
I can't understand it :) Have you really ever heard someone speak esperanto ? ;)
>nic Xatufan ¿De verdad te gusta el español? Bueno, espero que puedas hablarlo, porque si no, no podrías leer esto, ¿no?
I don't speak spanish, but in fact without knowing a language we always can understand some things ! For example :
La suno estas bela. -> The sun is beautiful
La floro estas blua. -> The flower is blue
Mia nomo estas Sébastien -> My name is Sébastien
La kato dormos en la domo -> The cat will sleep in the house
Mi trinkis teon, kafon, kaj akvon -> I drank some tea, koffee, and water.
(in esperanto, the nouns allways finish with -o, and the adjectives with -a.
-as is the end of verbs used at the present time, -is is the past time, and -os the future)
You don't speak esperanto but I think that you understood these sentences ;)
See you soon !