Žinutės: 48
Kalba: English
Tilino (Rodyti profilį) 2007 m. kovas 31 d. 20:20:16
Don't worry about numbers, or think that some places are better than others. We are all equal...don't give up on meeting great Esperanto speakers and learners of both genders from all parts of the world. There are many of us out there!
The beauty of learning something new is the whole new world of possibilty.
EL_NEBULOSO (Rodyti profilį) 2007 m. kovas 31 d. 21:47:47
Well, then again, languages are rather a domain of women then technical issues (hope nobody thinks I'm a sexist), so one might expect more women here ...
Gerald
pastorant (Rodyti profilį) 2007 m. kovas 31 d. 21:58:58
EL_NEBULOSO:You're absolutely right. But men by nature, tend to conquer things. Women just learn a language with out too much consideration about the 'why'.
Well, then again, languages are rather a domain of women then technical issues (hope nobody thinks I'm a sexist), so one might expect more women here ...
Gerald
DesertNaiad (Rodyti profilį) 2007 m. kovas 31 d. 23:54:13
pastorant:Rather a sweeping statement, but in my case, true. I was interested in learning a language for fun, I didn't know anyone yet with whom I couldn't already communicate so there was no impetus to learn a specific language for that reason. I have a few words of high school German left (which I studied because at the time I had dreams of some day eating pastry in Vienna), and a few words left of Spanish from an old friend who was bilingual, which makes the warning signs at the pool intelligible. Esperanto just sounded like fun.
Women just learn a language with out too much consideration about the 'why'.
andreasvc (Rodyti profilį) 2007 m. balandis 5 d. 13:20:02
pastorant:I think this a very bold statement. Though many eminent linguists might be male, this does not justify generalizing this statement. Does a couch potato also wonder more about the 'why', than a female?
You're absolutely right. But men by nature, tend to conquer things. Women just learn a language with out too much consideration about the 'why'.
I think the difference in distribution between the US and Europe is solely caused by the pluriformity (ok that's not English, I mean: multaformeco) of languages in Europe
Genna_StCloud (Rodyti profilį) 2008 m. vasaris 27 d. 03:43:11
I'd tried learning Esperanto on my own from books twenty years ago, and gotten NOWHERE due to a total lack of other speakers to interact with. But when my younger son wasn't particularly interested in the usual languages, I talked Esperanto up as easy to *spell* and easy to learn. Then I agreed to study with him.
Mia filo lernas Esperanton, kaj mi lernas concerne lin. *G*
Senlando (Rodyti profilį) 2008 m. vasaris 27 d. 19:33:11
to sum up (what i think, but it may not be right)
men feel more comfortable communicating to others even though they can't see them
while women feel more comfortable if they can see the person they are communicating with
so i think it boils down to how men and women "rather" communicate and interact.
this might explain way the rations are different in eastren europe and na. because in northamerica we are fewer and more isolated and to learn eo, we usually have to learn by internet. but in eastren europe there is a much higher density therefore a eo class might not be far away.
eb.eric (Rodyti profilį) 2008 m. vasaris 28 d. 00:52:37
erinja (Rodyti profilį) 2008 m. vasaris 28 d. 01:18:46
More to the point, in situations where I have taught an in-person Esperanto class in the US, more men than women have been in attendance, at least in the first meeting. It tends to even out a little more at successive meetings, when the class reduces in size exponentially.
And as a tutor for Ana Pana, ..... actually I haven't ever counted my male vs female students from the US but I have always seen plenty of women in the course.
It might also be that American men are more interested in things that would help them hear about Esperanto (computers, science fiction). It might be a publicity thing more than anything else.
werechick (Rodyti profilį) 2008 m. kovas 10 d. 03:42:14
I hope, for my sake, there aren't too few female esperantists (since the idea is very appealing), because I think it would be beautiful to have and keep a girlfriend who I could speak with privately in a public place.
My friend, being gay, feels much the same but with the word "boyfriend" in it's place.I think it's necessary to be a language geek to get into this, and, from what I've seen, more women than men are language geeks, and consequently, are more likely to hold interest. I do think the gap, if there is one in men's favor, exists because of the science fiction element as well that men are more likely than women, from what I've seen, to be interested in world history and come across this sort of things.
As for conventions: almost all conventions are male skewed. I'm not sure why this is, but my working theory has to do with mild autism.