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Why Esperanto? And why Lernu.net?

од Jxenja_A, 01. фебруар 2015.

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Jxenja_A (Погледати профил) 01. фебруар 2015. 12.47.41

Hello! I’m a Master’s student at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), and I am writing my thesis about lernu! As a part of my research, I am preparing a survey for all Lernu users, but before finalizing the survey, I would like to ask you to answer the following questions:

- Why did you learn / are learning Esperanto (i.e., what motivated you to learn the language)
- Why do you participate in Lernu.net (i.e., what does the participation in the community of Lernu.net give you personally)

Please answer in this forum or write to me personally at amis.yevgeniya@courrier.uqam.ca, if you would prefer to remain anonymous. Thank you very much for your help! ridulo.gif

Ĵenja (Yevgeniya) Amis

Alkanadi (Погледати профил) 01. фебруар 2015. 13.42.14

Why did you learn / are learning Esperanto (i.e., what motivated you to learn the language)
I spent a long time trying to learn Arabic. It is a fun hobby. It is mentally stimulating. It is like understanding a secret code. However, I found out that Chinese and Arabic are ranked as the most difficult languages to learn by the FSI. Then one day I google "what is the easiest language to learn" and stumbled upon Esperanto.

I am motived for the same reason. It like understanding a secret code. Secondly, I also believe that it will catch on eventually and I will have an upper hand because I started before others. Finally, I like the idea of bringing the world closure together.
Why do you participate in Lernu.net (i.e., what does the participation in the community of Lernu.net give you personally)
The lernu site gives me a chance to improve my language skills by receiving feedback. I can ask questions about Grammar. There is a really cool feature that allows you to see the meaning of a word by clicking on it. So I am able to read in Esperanto and just click the words I don't already know. I also get some insight into the subculture of Esperantists, which is interesting.

qwazzy (Погледати профил) 01. фебруар 2015. 15.07.13

- Why did you learn / are learning Esperanto (i.e., what motivated you to learn the language)
- Why do you participate in Lernu.net (i.e., what does the participation in the community of Lernu.net give you personally)

I joined this site just a few day ago.

1) I know people who can speak it, so I learnt some of Esperanto from people, and could communicate in it a bit even I didn't learn any lessons at all.
The reason to start learning it was a boredom... I correspond with many people in English and I also correspond with a guy from Israel in Russian, but now he has less time for communicating with me, so I felt a kind of emptiness, and want to find more people from abroad to correspond with, but I often have some difficulties to express my thoughts in English, and I'm too lazy to improve it... Esperanto is much easier than English.

2) People advised that site.

Nightflush (Погледати профил) 01. фебруар 2015. 20.14.57

1) I stumbled upon Esperanto when I was looking in the shelve for languages in the german Wikibooks. I wanted to give it a try because it promised to be relatively easy. I was also fascinated about a planned language. What keeps me now motivated are my two penpals and the local Eo-club.

2) Lernu is a place where I can improve my Esperanto. The forum is a good thing too for asking about grammar and other things.

Jxenja_A (Погледати профил) 02. фебруар 2015. 01.50.36

Thank you all for your responses! Do you feel that there exists such a thing as Lernu community, with a sense of belonging (that is, not just the Esperanto community in general, but a community of users of Lernu.net)? If so, what makes it a community and not just a group of people using the website?

Alkanadi (Погледати профил) 02. фебруар 2015. 07.38.12

Jxenja_A:Thank you all for your responses! Do you feel that there exists such a thing as Lernu community, with a sense of belonging (that is, not just the Esperanto community in general, but a community of users of Lernu.net)? If so, what makes it a community and not just a group of people using the website?
I don't think so

Jxenja_A (Погледати профил) 02. фебруар 2015. 10.46.12

Alkanadi:
Jxenja_A:Thank you all for your responses! Do you feel that there exists such a thing as Lernu community, with a sense of belonging (that is, not just the Esperanto community in general, but a community of users of Lernu.net)? If so, what makes it a community and not just a group of people using the website?
I don't think so
You mean, you don't think there exists a sense of belonging?

tommjames (Погледати профил) 02. фебруар 2015. 11.10.20

Why did you learn / are learning Esperanto (i.e., what motivated you to learn the language)
I too 'stumbled' upon Esperanto (literally - using the "Stumble Upon" browser addon for Firefox), about 10 years ago at this website. When ordering the languages by ease of learning I saw Esperanto, an "artificial language" at the top of the list and, intrigued, I read on. The idea of a completely made up language that's actually spoken by many thousands, perhaps even millions of people kind of amazed me, and I felt compelled to find out whether it was really as easy to learn as reputed to be. Then when I saw there are free courses available I decided to take a shot at learning it and signed up to the Free 10 Lesson Esperanto Course at pacujo.net, and haven't looked back since.

For me the all of the philosophical baggage and "Interna Ideo" of Esperanto was never really a motivating factor, it was more a matter of curiosity and being slightly fascinated with the language itself - its logic, structure and linguistic properties. Being a programmer I naturally find logical, systematic things alluring, and I suppose this was probably a large part of it.
Why do you participate in Lernu.net (i.e., what does the participation in the community of Lernu.net give you personally)
Besides the forums, at the moment my participation is Lernu is mainly as a tutor correcting lessons for newbs in the "Lingvohelpantejo", which I find fairly enjoyable. I also find it to be a good way of stopping my Esperanto from getting too rusty - a good reason to practise a bit every day.

Good luck with the thesis!

Alkanadi (Погледати профил) 02. фебруар 2015. 14.12.44

Jxenja_A:
Alkanadi:

I don't think so
You mean, you don't think there exists a sense of belonging?
I don't think there is a sense of belonging on Lernu specifically. When I think of Esperanto, I think of a very large diverse community that is trying to bridge huge socials gaps. Lernu is a means to such an ends. But, I don't feel that there is a sense of belonging to the site itself. There is an Esperanto community but I don't feel that there is a Lernu community. Just my feelings.

sudanglo (Погледати профил) 02. фебруар 2015. 14.42.09

I have been an Esperantist for some 50 years and I have to say that among Esperantists it is rarely a topic of conversation as to why someone has decided to learn Esperanto.

However, I strongly suspect that in many instances the motivation for remaining a student of Esperanto is to do with a love of, or fascination with, the language. Though in some cases a satisfaction may arise just from the feeling of belonging to an exclusive club of free-thinkers, which explains why at Esperanto events one can encounter a certain proportion of 'eternaj komencantoj' (eternal beginners).

Anybody coming across Esperanto for the first time (and this tends to happen accidentally) can very quickly see that it isn't going to take long to become reasonably and usefully proficient. This often contrasts with a previous experience of learning a national language where even after many hours study it is still daunting to manage even a simple conversation.

As to Lernu.net, this is probably the best resourced site for learning Esperanto on the Net and doesn't even require shelling out for a course book or a dictionary. But many other resources are available for free on the Net for refining one's competence in the language, including pdf's of literary works in Esperanto, access to radio broadcasts, and the Esperanto Wikipedia.

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