Uvi:In this context, although I love Esperanto with all my dark little heart, it's difficult for me to tell if, when and where I can fit Esperanto into my (future) kids' lives.

There is an online listserv of Esperanto-speaking families, and I'm sure they have lots of ways of handling this situation. If you're seriously interested, you'd do well to join and see what people are saying.

But the main strategies seem to be, associate a language with a place (we speak Spanish in the kitchen, French in the living room, etc), or with a person (Mom speaks Spanish, Dad speaks French), or with a time (Mondays we speak Spanish, Tuesdays we speak French...)

One important point is that the language of where you live will take care of itself. Your parents spoke to you in Spanish, but you learned English and French because you live in a place where English and French are spoken. Your parents didn't need to make a big deal of teaching you those, because they were all around you, on TV, in the street, at school. If I were you, and if the whole family was on board with it, I'd have your wife speaking Armenian, you speaking Spanish, and the entire family speaking Esperanto as a group. And the kids would learn French and English on the street. But that would presuppose that your wife learned Esperanto; I assume she will not.

erinja:

Uvi:In this context, although I love Esperanto with all my dark little heart, it's difficult for me to tell if, when and where I can fit Esperanto into my (future) kids' lives.

There is an online listserv of Esperanto-speaking families, and I'm sure they have lots of ways of handling this situation. If you're seriously interested, you'd do well to join and see what people are saying.

But the main strategies seem to be, associate a language with a place (we speak Spanish in the kitchen, French in the living room, etc), or with a person (Mom speaks Spanish, Dad speaks French), or with a time (Mondays we speak Spanish, Tuesdays we speak French...)

One important point is that the language of where you live will take care of itself. Your parents spoke to you in Spanish, but you learned English and French because you live in a place where English and French are spoken. Your parents didn't need to make a big deal of teaching you those, because they were all around you, on TV, in the street, at school. If I were you, and if the whole family was on board with it, I'd have your wife speaking Armenian, you speaking Spanish, and the entire family speaking Esperanto as a group. And the kids would learn French and English on the street. But that would presuppose that your wife learned Esperanto; I assume she will not.

This is something I'll definitely look into. Dankon

I've always wanted to learn another language. I love to meet people and learn about new cultures.

I found Esperanto while searching google for methods to remember what I was learning. I've studied Spanish, French, a little Mandarin and Japanese but haven't been able to make anything stick

So when I found a site with Esperanto being an easier language to learn, I youtubed it, liked how it sounded and have been studying for the last 2 months. I'm actually more confident about finally learning a second language because I am remembering what I'm learning.

I first heard of Esperanto a few years back in a metaphor--something along the lines of "... has gone the way of Esperanto." After doing a little research, I decided that it seemed like a good side-project from my coursework in mathematics, computer sci, and Japanese.

Despite my ability to find Esperanto speakers outside of Retlando, I've slowly kept up with it.

I've noticed that the myriad computer languages constructed these past decades hold more importance than having a constructed language to assist us in our daily lives. Why is this? We devised languages to speak (give commands) to machinery, yet the masses don't want to implement methods to communicate with other human beings.

Rajzal:I've noticed that the myriad computer languages constructed these past decades hold more importance than having a constructed language to assist us in our daily lives. Why is this? We devised languages to speak (give commands) to machinery, yet the masses don't want to implement methods to communicate with other human beings.

I've noticed this too! But I think that maybe the people who are willing to learn computer languages are generally in the same category as the people who have an interest in learning another person's language. The masses are a little behind probably because correct language learning (computer or human ones) in the education system is still not seen as a important yet.