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Thoughts on Esperanto?
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chucknorrisman
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Message 9 of 34

12 June 2010 at 7:14pm | IP Logged

If it's easy enough for me to learn along with other natural languages without disturbing my study of Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French, or any other language I plan to learn later on, then I will consider it.

Edited by chucknorrisman on 12 June 2010 at 7:14pm
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Message 10 of 34

12 June 2010 at 7:46pm | IP Logged

Captain Haddock wrote:

While many people seem drawn to the idea of an artificial auxiliary language, I tend to share Smart's opinion. The
reasons I learn languages would prompt me to put even very rare natural languages before Esperanto. If
Esperanto ever developed a permanent culture and society of fluent speakers, I'd be interested, but that probably
won't happen during my lifetime.

Esperanto has a permanent culture and a society of fluent speakers. They're not a majority in any city, but so what? I wouldn't refuse to learn Yiddish on those grounds...
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12 June 2010 at 9:23pm | IP Logged

I am a person who rather speaks Esperanto than discusses about the usefulness of the language.

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datsunking1
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13 June 2010 at 4:47am | IP Logged

I've decided to go for it personally, I ordered a few books in the mail, (and I need to find a dictionary) I'm going to fluency in less than two-three months.

What attracted me was the ease of grammar, and the speed that the language can be learned. It's another language I can add to my list, right?
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datsunking1
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13 June 2010 at 4:50am | IP Logged

Smart wrote:

I would rather learn Macedonian or Ukranian than learn Esperanto. This is to say a lot since I have almost no plans to learn either of these languages, but at least they have a nation backing them and a rich culture/identity/etc.

Esperanto sounds horrible. That's just a fact.

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?F ID=34&TID=20297&PN=1&TPN=1

Then what happened here :(
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13 June 2010 at 5:52am | IP Logged

datsunking1 wrote:

Smart wrote:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?F ID=34&TID=20297&PN=1&TPN=1

Then what happened here :(

I was thinking the same thing. The learning Esperanto thread started by Smart implied that Smart already studied and was positive about Esperanto. This was just last April, 2010 less than two months ago. Now in this thread a different implication that Smart has never studied Esperanto and had no interest in learning it. Confusing to say the least IMO.
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13 June 2010 at 6:11am | IP Logged

I think Esperanto actually sounds really nice. It's weird and nice to hear Romance/Latin influences and then switch to
Slavic or German influences in the same language. I think I would definitely learn it if I had more time.

As to the use of it as an IAL, I would definitely vouch for that. I feel like I have no identity as an anglophone, and I
would like to have at least some of that identity back.

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