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ya SamuelG, 4 Juni 2013

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SamuelG (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 4:10:41 alasiri

Please don't give me the standard "Esperanto is worldwide", because I always hear that. lango.gif I'm curious if there's a community or town in Brazil where a lot of Esperanto is spoken, or anywhere in the world!

Dankon. ridulo.gif

se (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 4:31:22 alasiri

SamuelG:Please don't give me the standard "Esperanto is worldwide", because I always hear that. lango.gif I'm curious if there's a community or town in Brazil where a lot of Esperanto is spoken, or anywhere in the world!

Dankon. ridulo.gif
You might want to find them here.

SamuelG (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 4:53:51 alasiri

se:
SamuelG:Please don't give me the standard "Esperanto is worldwide", because I always hear that. lango.gif I'm curious if there's a community or town in Brazil where a lot of Esperanto is spoken, or anywhere in the world!

Dankon. ridulo.gif
You might want to find them here.
Dankon!

InsaneInter (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 5:20:54 alasiri

Hmm, I think a fair amount of Japanese and Chinese ppl speak Esperanto.

Tjeri (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 6:19:52 alasiri

You can try the esperanto-urbo in Germany

erinja (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 7:51:32 alasiri

Major cities usually have more speakers than small towns. Brazil has a pretty large community of enthusiastic Esperanto speakers who will introduce you to all of their Brazilian friends. I have never been but I'm told that it's pretty much the most enthusiastic and hospitable Esperanto community you're likely to encounter.

Many (but definitely not all) Brazilian Esperantists are into spiritism, a sort of religion or philosophy so you might hear about that.

Brazil is also home to Bona Espero, a sort of farm/school for poor children, which is run by Esperantists and where many people speak Esperanto. Linked to Esperanto version, no English version of that article exists.

SamuelG (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 10:31:16 alasiri

How many Esperanto speakers do you believe there are in Herzberg? I am so curious about this place now.

robbkvasnak (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 5 Juni 2013 1:43:18 asubuhi

The group in Rio de Janeiro is great! Very nice! But by all means AVOID Belo Horizonte! We stayed there for almost half a week. We let the local E club know that we were there and we told them which hotel. We also emailed the delegito and we called two or three E speakers from our hotel. Maybe they were afraid that we wanted something from them. I don't know but we were alone for the whole time. We got married there (my husband is Brazilian) and so we spent our honey moon in Rio where the people are a lot nicer.

Vilinilo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 5 Juni 2013 3:25:41 asubuhi

erinja:Major cities usually have more speakers than small towns. Brazil has a pretty large community of enthusiastic Esperanto speakers who will introduce you to all of their Brazilian friends. I have never been but I'm told that it's pretty much the most enthusiastic and hospitable Esperanto community you're likely to encounter.

Many (but definitely not all) Brazilian Esperantists are into spiritism, a sort of religion or philosophy so you might hear about that.
I couldn't stand any Brazilian group of Esperantists. Too much religious nonsense. Yeah, they're pretty enthusiastic and hospitable indeed, but then again, Esperantists of any nationality and religion are friendly people.

johmue (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 5 Juni 2013 5:19:49 asubuhi

SamuelG:How many Esperanto speakers do you believe there are in Herzberg? I am so curious about this place now.
Don't believe, that the whole town of Herzberg speaks Esperanto. I'd even say that the regular E-gatherings in bigger European cities like Berlin have more participants than in Herzberg.

But for sure Herzberg is an interesting place for Esperanto speakers, because Esperanto is present in the town. There are sign posts and monuments in Esperanto. If you speak Esperanto in shops people would say something like "Sorry I don't speak Esperanto." instead of "What???" In restaurants you can ask for a menu card in Esperanto.

The number of Esperanto speakers is also increasing, becuase the Esperanto teaching in schools is getting more and more successful. There are school classes, which are in contact with Esperanto learning school classes in Poland. There are people and families from abroad, who came to stay in Herzberg, to run a hotel or a shop.

And there are often Esperanto congresses and seminars with interesting participants. That's why I am in Herzberg quite regularly.

If local politics keeps supporting Esperanto -- the mayor speaks Esperanto -- and the main Esperanto propagandists keep going and Esperanto speakers from other places go to visit Herzberg more and more often, this will grow even further.

So if you live in or travel in Germany, take a look at Herzberg, but don't expect too much.

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