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Fairness In Native Esperanto Speakers?

de surfingnirvana, 2006-septembro-29

Mesaĝoj: 12

Lingvo: English

Senlando (Montri la profilon) 2006-novembro-02 10:14:49

as i person born to canadian english speaking parents in taiwan, i feel that learning to speak more then one language is exstreamly important.

my family always spoke to each other in english but spoke to everone else in mandarin (since taiwan is a mandarin speaking country).

but when my family went to canada or the usa for visits, by default we mostly spoke mandarin. i know this sounds weird but i think it was good because wherever we went we allways had a "family language". where only my family could understand. kindof a like a privet language. it helped us feel united even though we were out of our enviroment.

now that i live with my brother in canada, 40% of what we say to each other is in mandarin both outside and inside.

the reson why i say this is because i believe that it is a great thing to teach your kids a language other then the one used in the country you live in. especially esperanto since it is so easy to learn. it's not going to waste your childrens time to learn a less popular language. every language is valuable, they help u think differantly in ways that monolinguo people can't understand, and they give u a sence of unity among the people who speak it. so if u dicide not to teach your children esperanto, teach them somthing else. but make sure u give them a chance to learn a second language early in thire life.

Serra (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-11 21:46:17

Dear friends:

I am really new in Esperanto (just 1 year)(with a break), but I speak three languages since my chilhood. I am from Barcelona (capital city of Catalunya, and part of Spain for the last 3 centuries) We speak (natively) Catalan, wich a complete diferent language. We learn to use also spanish, and sometimes English or French as addition.

The only confusion when I was a child, was with "friend" words, words very similar in Catalan and Spanish. No major problem with english. I think I been very lucky, and I will never negate an opportunity like that to a son. Sure, I will try Esperanto with him. If he don't like it, he can avoid use it.

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