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Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Esperanto
What if everybody spoke Esperanto? Imagine a world with a universal language, where you didn't have to learn any other foreign languages. Would you like it? What is Esperanto, anyway?
First of all, I actually like the idea of having lots of different languages all over the world, and I think that learning a new language is always a challenge, I mean, a diverting challenge. You can say ‘learning Esperanto could be fun too’. Yeah… I guess.
Esperanto is nice ‘cause it’s a new idea, and new ideas are always attractive.
Don’t tell me that it could be a tool for communication between many people everywhere, because that is English. Isn’t English the supposed international language, the second most spoken? Everybody always told me that, that’s why I learned it. Anywhere you go; you can speak English and must be someone there who understands you.
Esperanto is a kind of language (if I can call it language), created not to promote the communication but to separate even more who speaks it and who doesn’t. I mean, there are so many people who can’t even right their own name on their own language, why should they know how to speak Esperanto?? Why should I know how to speak Esperanto?
Besides, what’s the point? I don’t get it. It can be funny if you speak it with your friends and stuff like that. I don’t think it could be that fun if everybody speaks it. And this kind of language replacing all of the others is something that I am completely against. More than just a way of speak; the language of a country contains the history, the culture, the evolution of that country.
Besides, I love the idea of travelling to no where, where no one knows me, where they speak a language that sounds like something strange, and there I am, speaking the fantastic unknown Portuguese.
I couldn't agree more! And of course I'd be out of job, which woudn't be interesting at all.I'm just joking, of course. But seriously, I feel the way you do about learning languages and diversity. Anyway, the world is fascinating as it is, with different histories, languages and cultures. We should keep it that way.:)
2 comments:
Esperanto?
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No, I don’t think that’s a good idea… really…
First of all, I actually like the idea of having lots of different languages all over the world, and I think that learning a new language is always a challenge, I mean, a diverting challenge. You can say ‘learning Esperanto could be fun too’. Yeah… I guess.
Esperanto is nice ‘cause it’s a new idea, and new ideas are always attractive.
Don’t tell me that it could be a tool for communication between many people everywhere, because that is English. Isn’t English the supposed international language, the second most spoken? Everybody always told me that, that’s why I learned it. Anywhere you go; you can speak English and must be someone there who understands you.
Esperanto is a kind of language (if I can call it language), created not to promote the communication but to separate even more who speaks it and who doesn’t. I mean, there are so many people who can’t even right their own name on their own language, why should they know how to speak Esperanto?? Why should I know how to speak Esperanto?
Besides, what’s the point? I don’t get it.
It can be funny if you speak it with your friends and stuff like that. I don’t think it could be that fun if everybody speaks it. And this kind of language replacing all of the others is something that I am completely against.
More than just a way of speak; the language of a country contains the history, the culture, the evolution of that country.
Besides, I love the idea of travelling to no where, where no one knows me, where they speak a language that sounds like something strange, and there I am, speaking the fantastic unknown Portuguese.
Esperanto?
No, thanks.
I couldn't agree more! And of course I'd be out of job, which woudn't be interesting at all.I'm just joking, of course. But seriously, I feel the way you do about learning languages and diversity. Anyway, the world is fascinating as it is, with different histories, languages and cultures. We should keep it that way.:)
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