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CyrellaG (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 09:51:48
Saluton Amikoj!
I've been learning Esperanto for a week now and so far, I am liking it. I spend an hour every night on lernu and an hour on youtube watching videos about Esperanto. I am so glad I knew about this wonderful language and amazing community. I've made a couple of friends online because of Esperanto and they are very helpful, kind and patient. I am 16 years old and I want to be able to speak in many languages. I already speak English, Tagalog (Filipino) and currently taking Spanish in school. Now, I'm learning Esperanto by my own and I'm excited every day to learn more about this amazing language. I first read about Esperanto on a blog of an Irish polyglot named Benny Lewis. He mentioned that if someone wants to be a polyglot like him and have no idea what language to start with, Esperanto is the answer. I also discovered that I like learning languages. I live in Canada and it is one of the most diverse country. I hear different languages everyday. I am not really a very social person and I think that through learning a new language, I will be able to meet people and converse to them in their mother tongue. I want to be able to connect with them and learn more about their culture and life. Also, I believe that learning languages opens up more opportunities and experiences. How about you guys? How many languages do you speak? How long did it take you to be fluent in Esperanto? Why did you learn Esperanto? How long have you been speaking Esperanto and do you have some great experiences with it? I would greatly appreciate if you answer all my questions. hehehe
I'm excited to hear your responses.
Dankon! Thank you! Salamat! Gracias!
I've been learning Esperanto for a week now and so far, I am liking it. I spend an hour every night on lernu and an hour on youtube watching videos about Esperanto. I am so glad I knew about this wonderful language and amazing community. I've made a couple of friends online because of Esperanto and they are very helpful, kind and patient. I am 16 years old and I want to be able to speak in many languages. I already speak English, Tagalog (Filipino) and currently taking Spanish in school. Now, I'm learning Esperanto by my own and I'm excited every day to learn more about this amazing language. I first read about Esperanto on a blog of an Irish polyglot named Benny Lewis. He mentioned that if someone wants to be a polyglot like him and have no idea what language to start with, Esperanto is the answer. I also discovered that I like learning languages. I live in Canada and it is one of the most diverse country. I hear different languages everyday. I am not really a very social person and I think that through learning a new language, I will be able to meet people and converse to them in their mother tongue. I want to be able to connect with them and learn more about their culture and life. Also, I believe that learning languages opens up more opportunities and experiences. How about you guys? How many languages do you speak? How long did it take you to be fluent in Esperanto? Why did you learn Esperanto? How long have you been speaking Esperanto and do you have some great experiences with it? I would greatly appreciate if you answer all my questions. hehehe
I'm excited to hear your responses. Dankon! Thank you! Salamat! Gracias!
efilzeo (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 10:18:39
Hello Cyrella and welcome aboard.
I know Benny Lewis as well and all the polyglot community on youtube, he's a funny guy and what he said is very well founded I think. I discovered Esperanto through youtube and immediately felt in love with it because it was always a big deal to me the linguistic democracy, moreover you'll see that Esperanto will give you some surprises, the more I was studying it the more logic/brilliant mechanisms I was finding. I learnt it in 3 months and then just practiced it. The first time I used it by voice I spoke with a Russian and we completely comprehended each other, whereas the first time I spoke English with a foreigner I had no clue about what was going on.
What course are you using?
I know Benny Lewis as well and all the polyglot community on youtube, he's a funny guy and what he said is very well founded I think. I discovered Esperanto through youtube and immediately felt in love with it because it was always a big deal to me the linguistic democracy, moreover you'll see that Esperanto will give you some surprises, the more I was studying it the more logic/brilliant mechanisms I was finding. I learnt it in 3 months and then just practiced it. The first time I used it by voice I spoke with a Russian and we completely comprehended each other, whereas the first time I spoke English with a foreigner I had no clue about what was going on.
What course are you using?
Dakila_Sidhi (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 11:10:40
Well welcome to our community. It's a very nice community as esperantists are generally friendly, and as a first language of no country this is a really unique culture.
Interesting that you know Tagalog. Is it because you have a Filipino parent or did you just got interested and studied it? If you're not a Filipina, so how did you learn Tagalog? That's interesting because I don't see Tagalog or Filipino as a popular foreign language.
Well that's great that your school provides you a foreign language subject, Spanish. I actually found out about Benny the Irish Polyglot because of Esperanto, not the other way around hehe. It's great though that some famous people are promoting Esperanto. Well good luck with your study in Esperanto, the language is very viable for self-study.
Well natively I knew Filipino and English. Esperanto has been my first foreign language, and now I have Spanish as my fourth. Hopefully I'll succeed in learning a lot more as I am a language enthusiast as well. It took me about 9 weeks before I started chatting regularly in Esperanto, and there is continuous improvement for me. I chose this language because of it's easiness and uniqueness. I started studying it last year February, and yes it has been fun. I got to take part in Lernu's instant messenger and the forums, and I've made friends in Skype. I do agree that learning Esperanto has helped me in learning more languages. Learning Esperanto's simpler grammar makes us more aware about these things, and it's vocabulary has helped me learn Spanish.
Interesting that you know Tagalog. Is it because you have a Filipino parent or did you just got interested and studied it? If you're not a Filipina, so how did you learn Tagalog? That's interesting because I don't see Tagalog or Filipino as a popular foreign language.
Well that's great that your school provides you a foreign language subject, Spanish. I actually found out about Benny the Irish Polyglot because of Esperanto, not the other way around hehe. It's great though that some famous people are promoting Esperanto. Well good luck with your study in Esperanto, the language is very viable for self-study.
Well natively I knew Filipino and English. Esperanto has been my first foreign language, and now I have Spanish as my fourth. Hopefully I'll succeed in learning a lot more as I am a language enthusiast as well. It took me about 9 weeks before I started chatting regularly in Esperanto, and there is continuous improvement for me. I chose this language because of it's easiness and uniqueness. I started studying it last year February, and yes it has been fun. I got to take part in Lernu's instant messenger and the forums, and I've made friends in Skype. I do agree that learning Esperanto has helped me in learning more languages. Learning Esperanto's simpler grammar makes us more aware about these things, and it's vocabulary has helped me learn Spanish.
CyrellaG (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 19:58:16
Hello Efilzeo!
Thank you for your response. I agree, Benny Lewis is a funny guy. I love watching his videos and my favourite one is where they sung "Skype Me Maybe" in 30+ languages along with some other polyglots. If you haven't seen it, check it out because it's funny and informative at the same time.
About the course that I am using, I am currently at Bildoj kaj Demandoj. I would love to talk to someone that speaks Esperanto in person. I think that would be cool
Btw, I noticed that you are from Italy. Learning Italian is on my bucket list. I think your language is very beautiful. I started liking Italy when I watched the Eurovision 2013 for the first time. I fell in love with Marco Mengoni who was the representative of Italy at the Eurovision. He's a classy guy. His voice is just amazing. His songs are beautiful, just beyond word, especially L'essenziale and Non passerai. I listen to them everyday. I just can't express in words how much I like to learn Italian.
Thank you for your time and have a nice day
Thank you for your response. I agree, Benny Lewis is a funny guy. I love watching his videos and my favourite one is where they sung "Skype Me Maybe" in 30+ languages along with some other polyglots. If you haven't seen it, check it out because it's funny and informative at the same time.
About the course that I am using, I am currently at Bildoj kaj Demandoj. I would love to talk to someone that speaks Esperanto in person. I think that would be cool
Btw, I noticed that you are from Italy. Learning Italian is on my bucket list. I think your language is very beautiful. I started liking Italy when I watched the Eurovision 2013 for the first time. I fell in love with Marco Mengoni who was the representative of Italy at the Eurovision. He's a classy guy. His voice is just amazing. His songs are beautiful, just beyond word, especially L'essenziale and Non passerai. I listen to them everyday. I just can't express in words how much I like to learn Italian.
Thank you for your time and have a nice day
CyrellaG (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 20:29:54
Dakila_Sidhi:hehehe. Sorry I forgot to tell you that I am Filipina. Born and raised in the Philippines. I am from Oriental Mindoro and we moved here in Canada two years ago
Interesting that you know Tagalog. Is it because you have a Filipino parent or did you just got interested and studied it? If you're not a Filipina, so how did you learn Tagalog? That's interesting because I don't see Tagalog or Filipino as a popular foreign language.
I agree with you, Esperanto is easy to learn. There is actually a Filipino-Esperantist community on facebook. If you don't know it yet, check it out
For us Filipinos, learning Spanish is easier compared to learning any other languages because our language was influenced by Spanish. Let's continue learning languages! Thanks for your response and have a nice day 
Uridium (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 22:37:29
First of all, welcome to Lernu!
Personally i think Esperanto will be for you a very easy language to learning, because Zamenhof (the creator of this language) made this language opened to all, and this means not only people that going to school (or had school education) but also all these peoples on the world that not have the lucky to have an instruction; learning Esperanto is free, and this is a good new for these people that can't invest money in languages courses.
Also is a language that you can learn very fast: some studies demonstrate that while for some very popular languages (ex. Spanish, English, French) the average student need like 1000 hours or more of study for being a very good talker, Esperanto needs only 150 hours of study!!!!
(This count also for me: i started last summer, only half-hour at day, and in May i passed the medium-level exam of Esperanto of Lernu!)
So: Esperanto is easy, free and fun to learn, this not happening all the days
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Good luck with learning of Esperanto!
Bonan bonsxancon kun la lerno de Esperanto!
P.S. I speak English (did you noticed that?), hablo bastante bien el Espanol (i speak quite well Spanish), mi parolas Esperanton suficxe bone sed ne tre perfekte(i speak Esperanto quite well but not so perfectly) e ovviamente parlo la mia madrelingua che è l'italiano (and of course i speak my mother-language that is italian).
Personally i think Esperanto will be for you a very easy language to learning, because Zamenhof (the creator of this language) made this language opened to all, and this means not only people that going to school (or had school education) but also all these peoples on the world that not have the lucky to have an instruction; learning Esperanto is free, and this is a good new for these people that can't invest money in languages courses.
Also is a language that you can learn very fast: some studies demonstrate that while for some very popular languages (ex. Spanish, English, French) the average student need like 1000 hours or more of study for being a very good talker, Esperanto needs only 150 hours of study!!!!
(This count also for me: i started last summer, only half-hour at day, and in May i passed the medium-level exam of Esperanto of Lernu!)
So: Esperanto is easy, free and fun to learn, this not happening all the days
!Good luck with learning of Esperanto!
Bonan bonsxancon kun la lerno de Esperanto!
P.S. I speak English (did you noticed that?), hablo bastante bien el Espanol (i speak quite well Spanish), mi parolas Esperanton suficxe bone sed ne tre perfekte(i speak Esperanto quite well but not so perfectly) e ovviamente parlo la mia madrelingua che è l'italiano (and of course i speak my mother-language that is italian).
Peccavimus (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 29 d. 22:58:23
CyrellaG:Saluton Amikoj!Saluton! I agree that learning languages is a hoot, and I've been doing it for a while. I would say I speak two languages: English (my native language) and Spanish. My Spanish is intermediate; I can carry on a conversation well enough to get around and get my point across, but there are lots of pauses and circumlocutions and when speakers of Spanish go fast, I get maybe one word in ten. My accent, apparently, is improving though -- or so say my Hispanohablante friends. They might just be polite.
Also, I believe that learning languages opens up more opportunities and experiences. How about you guys? How many languages do you speak? How long did it take you to be fluent in Esperanto? Why did you learn Esperanto? How long have you been speaking Esperanto and do you have some great experiences with it? I would greatly appreciate if you answer all my questions. hehehe
Dankon! Thank you! Salamat! Gracias!
I can also read, but I wouldn't say I can speak, Ancient Greek, which is by far the hardest language I've ever learned. I've spent two years on it and am at an intermediate stage (I can read Plato and other Attic prose texts without too much difficulty, although sometimes I wear out a dictionary on some sentence or another).As far as Esperanto goes . . . I was interested in it in graduate school, but way too busy to learn it, as it turned out. A few weeks ago I decided to give it a go. Kaj nun mi povas paroli pli bone je Esperanto ol je Hispana lingvo! I'm reading William Auld right now, and while he does send me to the dictionary, not nearly as often as Plato does. I did the FEC course, which I just finished. At the same time I am working through Kellerman's complete grammar, and learning vocabulary on Memrise (the Speak Esperanto like a Native Speaker series there is wonderful). I haven't yet had an opportunity to speak it "live," and I'm sure I'll stumble and stutter. But I'm looking forward to the challenge, when and if it arises.
efilzeo (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 30 d. 09:55:55
I don't know this singer, now I'll check his songs.
Once you finish bildoj kaj demandoj, you should do the course "Ana Pana" and at that point probably you'll be ready to start using the language. I did Ana Pana, Ana renkontas and Kurso de Esperanto, a nice interactive course that you can find here: http://www.kurso.com.br/index.php?it
When you'll start to learn Italian let me know so we could speak both Italian and Esperanto
Once you finish bildoj kaj demandoj, you should do the course "Ana Pana" and at that point probably you'll be ready to start using the language. I did Ana Pana, Ana renkontas and Kurso de Esperanto, a nice interactive course that you can find here: http://www.kurso.com.br/index.php?it
When you'll start to learn Italian let me know so we could speak both Italian and Esperanto
agarrido18 (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 30 d. 11:30:19
CyrellaG:Hello Cyrella, I am Albert Garrido, and I'm perfectly sure you know me as I helped you take your first steps on learning Esperanto.Dakila_Sidhi:hehehe. Sorry I forgot to tell you that I am Filipina. Born and raised in the Philippines. I am from Oriental Mindoro and we moved here in Canada two years ago
Interesting that you know Tagalog. Is it because you have a Filipino parent or did you just got interested and studied it? If you're not a Filipina, so how did you learn Tagalog? That's interesting because I don't see Tagalog or Filipino as a popular foreign language.
I agree with you, Esperanto is easy to learn. There is actually a Filipino-Esperantist community on facebook. If you don't know it yet, check it out
Trust me, as the founder of that facebook community, I certify to you that he knows that.
On a lighter note, welcome to lernu.net, and I hope you explore this site as it will really help you learn Esperanto like it did to me.
It really is a fact that Esperanto serves, and will serve, as your 'bridge' towards learning languages.
It is one of the real reasons why I studied Esperanto, and it works really quite well.
Amike!
Tim496 (Rodyti profilį) 2013 m. rugpjūtis 30 d. 14:37:24
Hi! I'm Timothy, from Colombia, I've been learning Esperanto as well, and it is great that you came to learn it as well, it has a very diverse culture and you can know many people by it, asist to the meetings all around the world and know other languages you may want to learn.
Amikan Saluton!
Tim.
Amikan Saluton!
Tim.