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Is Esperanto a big part of your life?

viết bởi Alkanadi, Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

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Alkanadi (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 16:51:50 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

Is Esperanto a big part of your life?

robbkvasnak (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 17:13:15 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

Esperanto is not a hobby for me - it is a specific, clear program for action - it is for me as a language teacher part of what I see as a solution for the problems faced by people who live in a monocultural, monolingual world and who therefore do not enjoy the fullness of our world.

erinja (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 17:48:14 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

Your poll doesn't leave much in between "Esperanto is everything" and the fun hobby.

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 18:06:19 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

Esperanto is part of my identity, I suppose. I don't know if I would relegate it to the status of 'hobby' - it seems rather more than that, kind of like being multilingual in general is not a hobby.

jefusan (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 19:53:33 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

Hobby, definitely. It might be more if it fit into other aspects of my life, but it doesn't. None of my friends speak Esperanto. And, frankly, I haven't often found that I have a lot in common with other Esperantists I've met.

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 19:57:11 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

It's just hard for me to conceive of a language as being a hobby once you have finished learning it.

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 20:41:36 Ngày 04 tháng 11 năm 2015

erinja:It's just hard for me to conceive of a language as being a hobby once you have finished learning it.

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).
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.

Alkanadi (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 07:03:43 Ngày 05 tháng 11 năm 2015

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 07:17:48 Ngày 05 tháng 11 năm 2015

Alkanadi:
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.
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.

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 10:49:09 Ngày 05 tháng 11 năm 2015

Curiously, I was at the opticians the other day having my eyes tested for a new pair of glasses, and the optician asked me whether I had any hobbies.

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.

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