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why did you start to learn Esperanto?

de awake, 2006-aŭgusto-14

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pastorant (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-22 03:57:54

Tiu estas miriga! Dankon por la informoj. Ĉu vi havas ligilon por la muzeo? Ĉu vi vizitis ĝin?

Ĝis la ventoblovado...

Zend_DV (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-22 18:07:54

Tre interesa vere. Bedaŭrinde, mi ne havas iun ligilon kun la muzeo. Mi nur vizitis ĝin ĉi jaro.

Pardonu mian malbonan EO-nivelon. Mi lernis ĝin por nur mallonga tempo. okulumo.gif

Traduko: Very interesting indeed. Unfortunately, I do not have any connection with the museum. I only visited it this year.

Pardon my bad Esperanto. I learnt it for only a short time. okulumo.gif

pastorant (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-22 21:11:47

I apologize, you misunderstood me. The word ligilo in Esperanto means link, as in "Internet link". I asked if you had a web link to the museum ridulo.gif

Zumanto (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-23 13:50:56

Why? Hmm, well, actually, I was just bored one day.

I'd always known about Esperanto and so one day, while bored, I decided to look into it to see if people were still learning it.

I came across the Kurso de Esperanto and the lernu! website and I went from there. Very quickly how easy it was to learn and I've been pretty jazzed about it since then.

Although I actually do think that the world will someday adopt a constructed international language (even Simple Global English would be constructed!), I'm not really into the politics of this whole thing.

I think that Esperanto is a fun hobby and a good way to meet interesting, intelligent and internationally-minded people around the world. And, of course, it's fantastically useful for travelers as well as for expats who are going to be moving around to various countries.

Zend_DV (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-23 14:29:09

I apologize, you misunderstood me. The word ligilo in Esperanto means link, as in "Internet link". I asked if you had a web link to the museum ridulo.gif
Uhm, my apologies too. I checked up the word 'ligilo' with the vortaro and it returned with 'bond, tie'. Well, at least I learnt something new. okulumo.gif

The official site at http://www.cnbly.com/insect/index.asp is in Chinese :/ but a Google search returned:
http://202.117.182.180/about/Profile.htm
It has only a short paragraph regarding it but there is a photograph of the museum. (The one that resembles a lady bird)
Alternatively, there is http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chou_Io in EO.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-23 22:21:57

Zend_DV:Uhm, my apologies too. I checked up the word 'ligilo' with the vortaro and it returned with 'bond, tie'. Well, at least I learnt something new.
No worries, I just added "web link" as an English definition of "ligilo" in the lernu dictionary.

Erin

Mendacapote (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-24 05:20:40

When I was ten my stepfather invited a couple of friends to have dinner with us at our home. They were a young polish engineer and his gorgeous cuban wife. My stepfather could speak some Russian so I assumed they were speaking that language… until he bursted out laughing and said in Spanish: “I hope you’ll teach your kids a real language!” I asked my mum what language they were speaking and she said: “Esperanto, an artificial language”. I remember my fascination with the idea of an artificial, created, “secret” language… and I promised myself I would learn to speak that language… someday. 28 years later, I´m about to fulfill my promise.

Razeno (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-24 15:22:27

Interestingly,
I studied English for 14 years, taught English for some years and now I'm working in an English Daily Newspaper. But see I often make mistakes and I find somebody to criticise me for my poor English.

But, I speak English after staying in class room for 14 hours And I began speaking. I do make mistake in English but nobody compares my Esperanto wtih any "native" speaker and we help one another for improving our Esperanto. Thus it is an international language in real sense.

With a single language, I can find freinds from 30 countries. I would certainly not get so many helping and caring friends from all over the world if I was only using English to write to them. So, I say only Esperanto can bring freinds and happiness.
Razen Manandhar from Nepal
www.razeno.blog.com

ehanson (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-26 18:57:55

I've always had trouble with new languages but I find that I'm learning Esperanto very quickly. I'm also drawn to the ideal of having a common international language.

Huigh (Montri la profilon) 2006-decembro-27 15:10:07

Something like 30 years ago, I was working as a cataloguer in a University Library in Western Australia. The Esperanto League of Western Australia deposited their collection of books in our library and, after a couple of other people had had a go at them, it fell to me to catalogue them. Pretty soon I decided I had to learn something of the language because trying to catalogue and classify books in a language you cannot read is a classic demonstration of pointless inefficiency ploro.gif .

I fell in love with the language and quickly came to include Zamenhof in my list of 'heroes': men of genius and noble intention who had contributed something of great value to humanity such as Durer, Leonardo, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Bach, Goethe, Beethoven, Jefferson, etc.

I've learned not to try and 'sell' E-o as an "easy language to learn". No language is easy to learn and it is counterproductive to create that expectation in people. The truth is that Esperanto is by far the easiest language to learn and, since your second language is the hardest language to learn, it makes sense to make Esperanto your first foreign language because then you will find it so much easier to learn any other language. It is in learning your second language that you learn a lot about language in general and especially grammar.

Earlier this year, my wife and I took a trip in Turkey, Egypt and Jordan. Via Lernu, I located one Esperantist in Istanbul and another in Amman. I met with each of those two young men and found them, both self-taught, more fluent in Esperanto than I. It was a clear demonstration of the value of the language and I look forward to using the Pasporta Servo in future travels when my wife joins me in retirement next year rideto.gif

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