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Alkanadi (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 16:51:50
robbkvasnak (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 17:13:15
erinja (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 17:48:14
Mine is somewhere in between. It's a big part of my life and if I have kids I will speak to them in Esperanto, because this is a way to include them in a significant portion of my life. But I don't feel like Esperanto is really a hobby, any more than being Jewish is a "hobby". I have my Jewish friends and my Esperanto friends, my Jewish books and my Esperanto books. It is simply incorporated as a part of my life that informs some of my activities and what I do with some of my free time.
Tempodivalse (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 18:06:19
jefusan (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 19:53:33
Compare that to improv comedy, which I'm sure some friends and family members think of as my hobby. But I met my wife at an improv theater, the majority of my friends and acquaintances are comedians, and I have been paid handsomely to perform. Improv is a huge part of my life. Esperanto, like crossword puzzles, is rewarding in a less practical, more private way.
erinja (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 19:57:11
Language learning - sure, a hobby. But once you already speak it to a decent degree, it's not so much a hobby as a thing you use to do your other hobbies. Reading is a hobby, and an Esperanto speaker who enjoys reading could read Esperanto books. Internet chatting is a hobby, you could do that in Esperanto too. Like crocheting? You could crochet something and then discuss it with your Esperanto friends on an Esperanto group for crochet hobbyists. But a language as a hobby, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
"Doing Esperanto" looks a lot like "doing" any other thing I do in my life, only in a different language (reading, chatting online, meeting friends, tourism, etc).
jefusan (Visa profilen) 4 november 2015 20:41:36
erinja:It's just hard for me to conceive of a language as being a hobby once you have finished learning it.In my case, I'm not that close to being finished. And as it hasn't become part of my day-to-day life in any way, it can't be much more than a hobby.
Language learning - sure, a hobby. But once you already speak it to a decent degree, it's not so much a hobby as a thing you use to do your other hobbies. Reading is a hobby, and an Esperanto speaker who enjoys reading could read Esperanto books. Internet chatting is a hobby, you could do that in Esperanto too. Like crocheting? You could crochet something and then discuss it with your Esperanto friends on an Esperanto group for crochet hobbyists. But a language as a hobby, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
"Doing Esperanto" looks a lot like "doing" any other thing I do in my life, only in a different language (reading, chatting online, meeting friends, tourism, etc).
Alkanadi (Visa profilen) 5 november 2015 07:03:43
erinja:But I don't feel like Esperanto is really a hobby, any more than being Jewish is a "hobby".Interesting point. So it is part of your identity.
johmue (Visa profilen) 5 november 2015 07:17:48
Alkanadi:I would definetly say it's part of my identity. I wouldn't say Esperanto is a hobby to me. It's more like a cultural background. It's very much like Erinja says.erinja:But I don't feel like Esperanto is really a hobby, any more than being Jewish is a "hobby".Interesting point. So it is part of your identity.
My hobbies are music, podcasting, programming, electronics, typesetting, traveling, ...
Many of those I am doing inside the Esperanto community. I also speak Esperanto with my girlfriends. So it's really a part of my identity so definetely not just a hobby but it's far from being "everything". There's my friends, my beloved ones, there is my hobbies, there's my job.
sudanglo (Visa profilen) 5 november 2015 10:49:09
I really had to stop and think whether I could say that Esperanto was one of my hobbies.
I suppose that a denaska Esperanto-speaker would have some difficulty in saying that for him or her Esperanto was a hobby, just as an Englishman wouldn't say that English was a hobby.