Comments on: What Is Esperanto? What Can It Do for You?

By: Who Sets The Rules For Your Life?

Who Sets The Rules For Your Life? — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:01:20 +0000

[...] played it for the first time in the Summer of 2009, at a meetup of esperanto speakers. It’s played with a huge pile of cards (probably around 400 or more), but [...]

By: Ash Menon

Ash Menon — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:31:48 +0000

Sorry, I meant to type “Kevin, Vlad” not Kevin, Kevin

By: Ash Menon

Ash Menon — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:31:16 +0000

Kevin, Kevin, just to clarify, there IS such a thing in Japanese. It’s called 謙譲語 (kenjougo, meaning “humble language”) and 尊敬語　(sonkeigo, meaning “honorific language”). It’s not too extensive, though. It just covers certain basic actions and descriptions.

By: What I Learned From My 31-Day Gratitude Experiment

What I Learned From My 31-Day Gratitude Experiment — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:34:23 +0000

[...] been on the road for the whole of August, which affected my experiences. First I was at a meetup of Esperanto speakers in Slovakia, then then I set off on a Eurotrip with two of my best friends. So my [...]

By: The Best Way to Convince Others

The Best Way to Convince Others — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:04:21 +0000

[...] spent the week before last at a meetup of Esperanto speakers. (That’s the Esperanto flag you see in the image [...]

By: rainer arvola

rainer arvola — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:58:19 +0000

I was about 16, when my stepfather mentioned esperanto. He gave me a little book about it; I had earlier heard about it, but I knew nobody speaking it. So, I started to learn my new “secred language”. I studied it one winter, and in spring I lost my dreams: esperanto was on radio… It was no secred any more!!! I listened news on Warsaw – 2. The time was political crisis when Mr. Hrustchew had sent rocket ships to Cuba, and Mr. Kennedy had sent submarines to them. In the news I heard a word #submarshipo!” In my language that is “vedenalainen” – and I hadn’t seen it in esperanto – but I understood it immediately! What can you do with a language, which you know without learnin it?!! For me esperanto has given so much in those four decades I have used it.

With greetings from Finland,

Rainer

By: gneek

gneek — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:03:07 +0000

@Elthyra: Russian grammar is, in fact very difficult. Try Ukrainian instead. It’s an awesome language.

By: Elthyra

Elthyra — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:24:06 +0000

Esperanto looks interesting, and I think it will be easier to learn than Russian (gaaah… russian grammar is too hard >__<)~ And by the way, in french et and est aren’t pronounced the same

- Some French reader

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:13:24 +0000

Sadly, I could actually read the poem about the horrors of the english language. Mostly because I spend alot of time with books. It was harsh, though.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:15:18 +0000

Wow! Just this Sunday I started learning Esperanto on lernu.net, and here you are on Wednesday with an entire post about it!

I’m in love with it. Each of these nights that I’ve been learning, I’ve been forcing myself to go to bed because I’m having so much fun learning it.

I can completely see how the most “different” people speak Esperanto. I’ve been telling people at school about it, and there are some that think it’s brilliant. Others don’t see a point to speaking a language that hardly anyone else speaks.

Those that like the idea are the ones that try the most new things and are most successful. As to your claim that Esperantists are more likely to have Linux and be vegetarians, I am a vegetarian on Linux with a Dvorak keyboard as well.

Thanks for letting more people know about the awesomeness of Esperanto! Ni sxategas Esperanton!