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erikano (Profiel tonen) 8 september 2009 22:14:50
"The World of Primary Esperanto"
link : [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4hfuYvU4g ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4hfuYvU4g [/url]
ceigered (Profiel tonen) 9 september 2009 05:54:33
erikano:Did you know this video :That video was done by an Australian
"The World of Primary Esperanto"
link : [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4hfuYvU4g ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4hfuYvU4g [/url]
.There is a slight problem with the teaching kids esperanto debate - most of a time, a language is chosen to teach primary school children (elementary school for non Aussies) for political-diplomatic reasons - for instance, Arabic, Chinese and Indonesian are three languages we need people to speak because of the amount of complex relations we have with those people. Japanese is also important because of our relationship with the "other land of the rising sun"
, and Greek and Italian are also useful because of the immigrants in Australia. However, for primary schools that insist on teaching French, Spanish etc, they probably would be better off with Esperanto.I think what needs to happen first though (at least for Australia) is for the universities to start teaching Esperanto, because here at least university is made out to be the authority of education for some sad reason.
Aslan (Profiel tonen) 9 september 2009 21:29:46
As far as universities are concerned, it would be a huge boost for the language if any university in the world could take it seriously, seems unlikely though.
ceigered (Profiel tonen) 10 september 2009 03:44:44
Aslan:As far as universities are concerned, it would be a huge boost for the language if any university in the world could take it seriously, seems unlikely though.There is one, but I don't think it's just your average university:
http://www.ais-sanmarino.org/index_en.html
The International Academy of Sciences in San Marino. Sounds more like a place for existing researchers though, not undergrad students.. Of course I suck at reading anything on university websites (including my own) so I may have missed something.
I also found some classes at Stanford but doesn't seem to be taken too seriously
It looks more like your local cantonese night classes.
I once heard that kids taught Esperanto for 6 months followed by an arbitrary national language (french, german or some similar) consistently outperform those taught the same language for a full 2 years.The problem is convincing the general aussie public, every great idea we have gets turned into a 3 year long debate
Followed by another 3 years....
Aslan (Profiel tonen) 10 september 2009 14:53:38
But the fundamental issue at present is that there is no such thing as "Esperanto Studies" and therefore no academics to teach it (or indeed assess a student's work). In principle it is a perfectly valid area of research, seeing as it contains everything from the language itself to its history, philosophy and literature.
This blog discussed this a month back:
http://www.transparent.com/esperanto/2009/08/07/re...
Greyshades (Profiel tonen) 13 september 2009 17:54:09
Good thing we have Lernu