A fluent Esperanto speaker here. Esperanto doesn't have only 16 rules. It's easy and fast to learn but 16 grammatical rules would be too little. PMEG - the complete grammar book - is rather tight.
@fanaticofmetal
Жыл бұрын
Mi ankaŭ estas flua Esperanto-parolanto. Mi povas diri ke Esperanto estas unu el la plej facilaj lingvoj en la mondo sed jen multaj lingoj ke estas pli facilaj ol Esperanto kiel : Tokipono, Lingua Franca Nova, Ido.
@_Hail_satan_
Жыл бұрын
How long did it take you to Learn?
@amadeosendiulo2137
Жыл бұрын
@@_Hail_satan_ Half a year to be communicative plus one more year to be fluent by using the language everyday (via the Internet).
@eljuano28
Жыл бұрын
@@_Hail_satan_ about 18 months or more to follow Evildea without subtitles. Two years to feel mostly confident and fluent. You'll feel like you're getting it almost right away. After 6mo or so, (some can do so in much less,) you can hold a normal polite conversation. Much longer to feel comfortable arguing politics.
@danielturcotte9146
Жыл бұрын
@@fanaticofmetaljes estas vere, ke Esperanto estas multe pli facile lernebla kaj mi scivolas kial ne estas multe da informoj pri kaj Esperanto kaj IDO
@Kalmaro4152
5 ай бұрын
What people miss is that, even though Esperanto is more difficult for an Asian Language Speaker to learn than it would be for a European Language Speaker to learn, it's still leagues easier to learn for them than most other European Languages, making it a great tool to introduce those individuals to other European Languages. Plus it's word building and affixes makes it incredibly reminiscent of an Isolating Language such as Chinese (because Esperanto is an Isolating Language and not a Transitive Language, despite what Wikipedia says. Claude Pirion has an excellent write up about the phenomenon)
@kinny6823
Жыл бұрын
Though it is quite European influenced, that didn’t stop many Japanese people from learning Esperanto in the 30s and 40s and their esperantista klubo. Just shows how much Esperanto brings people together!
@alanguages
Жыл бұрын
I had a teacher who downright hated Esperanto. I asked him why, and his response was Esperanto was too Eurocentric and it tried to be the international language, which degrades speakers of other non European languages. I then saw a topic for essays he wanted to give the class and he encouraged this one: 'Why English should be the official international WORLD language?' This individual was an English teacher by the way. In Summary: Esperanto was too European, but English should be the official international world language. RIIIIIIGHT!
@kinny6823
Жыл бұрын
@@alanguages Recently, I’ve noticed that people who hate Esperanto are almost always imperialist, antisemitic, etc. Just keep talking to them, they’ll say some stupid shit eventually lmao
@alanguages
Жыл бұрын
@@kinny6823 I disagree on the descriptions you gave about people who hate Esperanto. Those are extremely inflammatory remarks you wrote down, with no true basis. I find Anti- Esperantist individuals to be ignorant and refuse to find out the facts about Esperanto and the benefits it provides. Yeah, they say stupid things, because they wallow in their ignorance.
@kinny6823
Жыл бұрын
@@alanguages Exactly! They usually don’t know the facts. And so, personally, I find that people usually say false things like how Esperanto was made by the “communists” and “pedophiles” (yes, someone actually told me this). These are just some replacement words Nazis use since they can’t say “Jewish”, which will give away their identity. I’ve heard it all lol
@majkus
10 ай бұрын
The one time I went to an Universala Kongreso, decades ago, I met a young Japanese man who told me (in fluent Esperanto) that he had studied English in school for some years and never 'got' it, but had learned Esperanto in far less time. "I don't speak English good," he added in English.
@RoaringFlameCat
8 ай бұрын
I can't wait until I'm fluent in Esperanto.
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
Same! Esperanto is very easy to learn but still takes awhile to learn! I don't like some aspects of it and the accent marks can't always be typed they have to be copy and pasted... but besides those I love Esperanto! I swear I'm the only person who keeps saying virono when trying to speak standard even though in standard it's viro.
@dwes6447
6 ай бұрын
Not tryna be an asshole but why it’s a useless language. For fun?
@carsonpiano1
5 ай бұрын
@@dwes6447It's absolutely not useless! it's is definitely not for everyone but it has uses.
@qsc_slime2448
5 ай бұрын
@@dwes6447 I think people learn Esperanto. To get an understanding of other languages and can be useful if you find someone who use it. I think if it's not even use, it would be easy to learn and could be use to learn other languages that has connect to Esperanto within a couple of years.
@boli1146
2 ай бұрын
how you doing now
@caffeineandsleepingpills
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I don't think the Chinese Korean or Japanese Esperanto communities got the memo that Esperanto is too eurocentric for them to learn?
@chrispbacon3042
Жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s funny because the Asians punch through Esperanto like champions.
@bernardkung7306
9 ай бұрын
@@chrispbacon3042 It generally takes Asian students about six months, to get to the point that Europeans get to in about six weeks (Europeans have a big head start in vocabulary, and likely alphabet) but after that, they seem to do about as well. (In some respects they do better, because they're less likely to make "eurocentric" errors that come from mistakenly assuming something is just like in a familiar, european language.)
@natsinthebelfry
Жыл бұрын
I find the idea that Esperanto is too Eurocentric hilarious considering that most speakers are from China.
@TVwriter23
5 ай бұрын
A lot in Africa too.
@carsonpiano1
3 ай бұрын
I would say that now adays most speakers are in the Europe and the DRC (in africa). There are monuments and an Esperanto museum in China but the popularity there has decreased somewhat. At least hundreds of speakers still though
@drunkenactivities
Жыл бұрын
SALUTON!!
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
Saluton mia amiko! :D
@zombsterr
Жыл бұрын
I really really like languages but I'm always bummed by how hard they are to learn because of my mental disabilities, but I love poking around at Esperanto and I even kind of like the fact that it has a lot of European influence in it's language because it's just kinda neat to learn words and see how easy they correlate back to English.
@Law-_
Жыл бұрын
I have kind of the same "problem" and it's definitely harder for people like us to learn compared to other people but we can be even more proud as a result. I hope you have fun learning languages!
@natoNAZZI
Жыл бұрын
Hello guys, sorry for hearing that but you can, just try and you will make it
@JackieChandler69
Жыл бұрын
Don't let anything hold you back. Whatever mental or intellectual challenges you face, the practice of learning a language is itself great for your mind. The fact that you would still put the effort into learning another language, despite the difficulties, is a sign of intelligence. Even if learning languages isn't your thing, that process of learning may reveal what your true skills and talents are.
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
Agreed! I don't think it's a bad thing that it's Eurocentric, it allows for even easier European translation and a gateway to other European languages. My main problems are the accent marks and also the gender neutral words and masculine words are differentiated by context. I think Weh Esperanto has made it harder for me to learn standard Esperanto. I keep saying virono instead of viro, to me viro means adult not man/XY adult... so many other false friend words too.
@qsc_slime2448
5 ай бұрын
I'm in with you I have a disability to learn a new subject, but im in with you. As a college student I will work on myself and learn something out of my league. Let's do this together my brothers and sister.
@pasalasaga
Жыл бұрын
This is what the International language should be and not just english.
@Natalietrans
Жыл бұрын
Would be better if it was revised to include more non European words but yes
@VirtuousFox
11 ай бұрын
@@FE8037l3Ne, Esperanto estas bona lingvo!
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
I love Esperanto! I'm currently learning standard Esperanto, but I know a dialect of it which I'd argue is somehow more complex than Esperanto itself. I hope to be fluent in Esperanto one day as it still takes awhile to learn even if it's easy to learn in comparison to other languages! Mi amas Esperanton! Esperanto estas lingvo bona!
@carsonpiano1
5 ай бұрын
Saluton! if you would every like a tutor in Esperanto I could help
@ismaelmad1
Жыл бұрын
Esperanto or another invented better should be established as the only official language in all international forums. It's enough that native English speakers are born with privileges over others!!!
@danelisslow3269
8 ай бұрын
Ok then make Spanish the universal language. Lots of people already speak it. Making up a new language to put literally everyone at a disadvantage is stupid.
@ismaelmad1
8 ай бұрын
@@danelisslow3269 Sure, if you are a english speaker
@ismaelmad1
8 ай бұрын
@@danelisslow3269 Se podía hacer una versión simplificada del español. Quitando las conjugaciones, el género y las tildes, quedaría el idioma más fácil del mundo, tanto para hablar como para escribir. Hablar en inglés es mucho más complicado y su correspondiente escritura no tiene solución simple.
@Kasiarzynka
8 ай бұрын
@@danelisslow3269Idk about the original poster but it's not just about "putting one group at disadvantage rather than other". If that was the case, we should just go with Mandarin or something. But as stated in this video, Esperanto is really easy grammatically (no exceptions from rules) and at least from a European point of view, a lot of vocabulary is rather intuitive. It's actually said that it takes 2-3 times less time to become fluent in Esperanto than it takes to become fluent in other languages. One of my favorite examples of how easy the grammar is so far (I'm learning it but I'm still at A1 level): adjectives and adverbs. - they end with -a - if there are opposites, they're paired. So "longa" = long, "mallonga" = short. "juna" = young, "maljuna" = old. Just add mal- and you can kinda half the amount of adjectives to learn (although not every adjective has an opposite, I suppose). - adverbs end with -e instead. "bela" = beautiful, "bele" = beautifully. - "pli" is more, "la plej" is the most. The adjective/adverb doesn't change, unlike in English. "bona" = good, "pli bona" = better, "la plej bona" = the best. In English, shorter adjectives get a suffix, while longer get the supporting words (more/most). From what I can tell, they also tie in with some verbs pretty neatly. For example, instead of saying "mi estas laca" (I'm tired), you can say "mi lacas" - in a way, the adjective "laca" becomes a verb, and "estas" - "am" is dropped.
@Magikarpo
2 ай бұрын
I'm learning Esperanto! I'm a bit confused on what the heck a verb noun is and where to learn vocab but I'm really proud of my progress!
@celsolima007
6 ай бұрын
Saluton el Brazilo! Mi parolas Esperanton ekde 1984!
@carsonpiano1
5 ай бұрын
Saluton! Mi estas juna esperantisto kaj neniam vivis sen la interreto. Kiel oni trovis esperantistajn geamikojn en 1984
@carsonpiano1
Жыл бұрын
Mi amas Esperanton
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
Sama! Mi amas Esperanton ankaŭ!
@thecosmos729
6 ай бұрын
Mi ankaŭ!
@cliked
3 ай бұрын
Kaj mi!
@KolektodeHerkso
Жыл бұрын
Esperanto is a really easy language and worth learning
@Cetnikmapping
11 ай бұрын
get help
@Francisco-gl9yg
10 ай бұрын
De acordo pelo menos para um falante de português Portugal é bem mais fácil do que o Inglês pelo menos na minha opinião.
@monddasher516
4 ай бұрын
esperanto has a basic phrases like hello.hello in esperanto is saluton.(pronoucation:sa-loo-ton)
@Kanguruo
Жыл бұрын
The grammar has a few slavic elements in it, but many features from other languages too. The way the words for numbers are made is identical to the way it works in Chinese and Japanese for example, not at all like French or Russian.
@user-zw3ut5uq4v
Жыл бұрын
Saluton. Эсперанто лучший!
@rm.makes.me.smile_
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if there’s been any attempt to add Asian aspects to Esperanto as to make it more familiar to Asian people (I know that includes India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and not just Korea, Japan, and China). Like there has to be SOME way we can make this a more globally accessible language. It’s already so close!!
@AlenaFenomena
Жыл бұрын
Been speaking Esperanto for decades. The many Asian speakers of Esperanto I've asked about this have told me the same story... the grammar is so accessible to them that they have plenty of bandwidth to learn the vocab. Non-issue, for every one of them.
@yusasami
9 ай бұрын
@@AlenaFenomena plus a lot of the grammar structure is similar to Chinese in terms of noun grouping derivations and agglutination like Korean, Japanese, and Tamil
@paulienvanmarsenille
5 ай бұрын
Mi jam povas paroli Esperanton
@enormalny
11 ай бұрын
Ludwik Zamenhoff create that code.
@fanaticofmetal
Жыл бұрын
The grammar slavic? Absolutely not, the grammar is Greek(more precisely Ancient Greek) and many aspects were borrowed from it including the Accusative ending in -n, the participles in -nt and -t and borrowed vocabulary like Filozofio (Philosophy) Geografio (Geography) and a lot more.
@bar7381
Жыл бұрын
that would make sense as Slavic grammar isn't simple
@bernardkung7306
9 ай бұрын
Ummm... no.
@SM-ef7yp
13 күн бұрын
Slavic languages have the same borrowed vocabulary. Creator of Esperanto was Slavic
@piadas804
Жыл бұрын
The grammar is most Latin, not Slavic.
@The_name105
Жыл бұрын
"European influenced" aka Spanish and Italian.
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
ŝ has left the chat.
@The_name105
7 ай бұрын
@@keagaming9837 I think I meant that it is overly influenced by those two languages. No way I forgot the English, French, and Greek influence. The entire language is only based on European languages.
@soykre4645
11 ай бұрын
First time a language Espeanto-like has created by a woman in medieval centuries
@crbgo9854
4 күн бұрын
But you must say that a lot of esperanto speakers tend to be Asian descent
@The_SOB_II
2 жыл бұрын
How many radio shows does YOUR conlang have??
@protondium_8927
2 жыл бұрын
New radio shows?
@obonyxiam
Жыл бұрын
i suppose you think that's cute, but what it makes you is a fraud
@EvTheFlickFan
6 ай бұрын
SHOW ME THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
@AlekséjAntipov
Жыл бұрын
Vere ĉiuj homoj havas pugtruon. Sed kelkaj homoj diras: "Ne, mi ne havas."
@ismaelmad1
8 ай бұрын
Se podía hacer una versión simplificada del español. Quitando las conjugaciones, el género y las tildes, quedaría el idioma más fácil del mundo, tanto para hablar como para escribir.
@sulecuber
10 ай бұрын
If you learnt English or Spanish, Esperanto would be fking difficult for an asian like me. Edit: if you haven't*
@yusasami
9 ай бұрын
Not if you speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Tamil. The vocabulary is different but the agglutination and how you derive words from roots all have the same premise as the languages above.
@carsonpiano1
5 ай бұрын
@@yusasamiYes Mandarin and Esperanto are both very aglutinative. Mandarin and Esperanto also can use adjectives as verbs (to my knowledge)
@cxapelo
Жыл бұрын
Mi parolas ĝin kaj faras filmetojn kaj podkastojn
@Thehunteg
Жыл бұрын
Jes yes Saluton hi
@nicholasleon787
Жыл бұрын
It’s mainly romance base it like Spanish portages an Romanian
@aer0a
Жыл бұрын
The sounds in esperanto are the same as those polish at the time the language was created, which means speakers of most languages will need to learn at least one new sound
@bernardkung7306
9 ай бұрын
It's very unusual for a speaker of one particular language to be able to learn another particular language without having to learn at least a few new sounds. For example, even though English is largely descended from French and German roots, English-speaking students nonetheless still have to learn new sounds when learning French or German (and vice versa). If someone is unwilling to learn new sounds, they're not actually serious about learning to speak another language.
@aer0a
9 ай бұрын
@@bernardkung7306 Esperanto is not a natural language. It was created with the intention of being able to learn easily no matter your native language so it can be used by everyone. Making people learn new sounds makes it harder to learn for people who don't know a language with that sound and easier for those who do, and if your language has the phonology of Polish (from the time the language was created), many people will have to learn new sounds
@bernardkung7306
9 ай бұрын
@@aer0a Why don't you look into how many sounds would be left, if you got rid of every phoneme that some language 9or even language group) would find unfamiliar? I don't think you would care for the result. PS: It's funny how people complain about Esperanto's supposedly Polish phonology, even though Zamenhof's own "mother tongue" languages were actually Russian and Yiddish. (Russian was the everyday language of the Zamenhof household, that Zamenhof grew up in.)
@aer0a
9 ай бұрын
@@bernardkung7306 You could at least remove sounds that some of the most common languages wouldn't have like the /x/ sound, which isn't in English (spoken by more than one billion people). Also, if you compare the two languages, Esperanto and Polish share quite a few sounds; his native language not being Polish doesn't mean a language he created can't have a phonology similar to Polish
@SM-ef7yp
13 күн бұрын
@@bernardkung7306his first language in the household was Yiddish. The second according to some biographers was Polish, other say it was Russian. Also, in the elementary and high school language of the courses was Polish
@FebruaryHas30Days
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact: I classify Esperanto as an Indo-European language because its vocabulary and grammar are very much like most Indo-European languages.
@t_ornatus
2 ай бұрын
But then it would have to had evolved from PIE though
@FebruaryHas30Days
2 ай бұрын
@@t_ornatus Its vocabulary depended on mostly Indo-European languages. hundo - Proto-Germanic: *hundaz tago - Proto-Germanic: *dagaz ludi - Proto-Italic: *loidō kuri - Proto-Italic: *korzō vino - Proto-Indo-European: *wóyh₁nom
@qyup_amp
9 ай бұрын
Evrim ağacı İngilizce biliyormuş ln
@QuartixRu
Жыл бұрын
Please dont let Esperanto propaganda fool you
@kiwenmanisuno
Жыл бұрын
Anti Esperantists when they realise there are 250 thousand Esperanto speakers in China, making it the largest Esperanto community out of any country (suddenly it's not so eurocentric)
@QuartixRu
Жыл бұрын
@@kiwenmanisuno wow what a coincidence, a country with the 2nd largest population in the world has the most esperanto speakers
@kiwenmanisuno
Жыл бұрын
@@QuartixRu the 2nd largest population in the world also has the least access to the rest of the world
@aer0a
9 ай бұрын
@@kiwenmanisuno Esperanto was invented 62 years before the founding of the country that's giving them the least access to the rest of the world
@kiwenmanisuno
9 ай бұрын
@@aer0a This same country literally has Esperanto as an optional language in the educational system. The only other one is Hungary Guess who's also not a European language? Hungarian
@volpixrossi3589
Жыл бұрын
Esperanto is basically just simplified Spanish
@sebas13795
Жыл бұрын
No
@danielturcotte9146
Жыл бұрын
NOPE NOT TRUE AT ALL!!!!!
@fernando1981br
9 ай бұрын
Its wrong! There a lot of Italian, German, French and English too. Some slavs.
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
No, as an Esperanto learner I can confirm that this is not true! I know a dialect of Esperanto that's supposed to be closer to Spanish too and even then it's pretty far off from Spanish! Don't let "estas" fool you!
@carlos_lg
9 ай бұрын
Saluton! La lingvo estas certe bela kaj lerninda.🎉
@Caraem144p
Жыл бұрын
Saluton mi estas viro
@keagaming9837
7 ай бұрын
Saluton, mi estas virino! :D
@thetheDelta
Жыл бұрын
otnarepse
@chrispbacon3042
Жыл бұрын
Another poor representation of what Esperanto actually is or how it works in reality.
@yuzaka.yzmn1
2 ай бұрын
Ajho! I’m making a conlang (if you are wodnering “ajho” means hello)
@ansh8352
Жыл бұрын
saluton, mi estas ansh kaj mi pensas, ke espranto estas tre facila, ĝi laŭvorte ne havas gramatikon, mi lernis rhia en nur 2 tagoj.
@thato596
10 ай бұрын
Yes you right it is too eurocentric
@coppertopv365
3 ай бұрын
Much faster then Indonesian?
@t_ornatus
2 ай бұрын
For an English speaker, probably still yes due to the largely familiar lexicon and syntax
@AlekséjAntipov
Жыл бұрын
Via barbo estas tre ridinda. )
@beedle556
Жыл бұрын
It needs a new script. Then i’d learn it
@lardgedarkrooster6371
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I've been toying around with a few existing scripts for it and the language could work really well with Cyrillic with very minimal changes. You could also maybe adapt a Yiddish-based orthography, as well as an Armenian, Devanagari (or other Indic scripts), Coptic, Tifinagh, and maybe a Syriac, Arabic and Korean-based script, with the last 3 requiring a bit more creativity. Greek would need to add more letters, so wouldn't be useful when texting online. Then of course you can make your own script or utilise another script, either real like the ones I mentioned or dictional like Tengwar, which I think has been done
@AlenaFenomena
Жыл бұрын
To what purpose other than obfuscation or play? It's a real language with a real community of speakers, not a toy.
@bernardkung7306
9 ай бұрын
@@AlenaFenomena Esperanto critics: Esperanto is too similar to other languages -- it needs its own, unique writing system. Also Esperanto critics: Esperanto isn't similar enough to other languages -- it needs to get rid of any letters that aren't already in the English or French alphabets.
@-Emonem-
Жыл бұрын
Saluton, mi estas komencanto, sed mi ŝatas la lingvon. Thanks for enlightening people about this awesome and easy to learn language!
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