Esperanto! #shorts

[amadeosendiulo]

A fluent Esperanto speaker here. Esperanto doesn't have only 16 rules. It's easy and fast to learn but 16 grammatical rules would be too little. PMEG – the complete grammar book – is rather tight.

[kinny]

Though it is quite European influenced, that didn’t stop many Japanese people from learning Esperanto in the 30s and 40s and their esperantista klubo. Just shows how much Esperanto brings people together!

[Kalmaro]

What people miss is that, even though Esperanto is more difficult for an Asian Language Speaker to learn than it would be for a European Language Speaker to learn, it's still leagues easier to learn for them than most other European Languages, making it a great tool to introduce those individuals to other European Languages. Plus it's word building and affixes makes it incredibly reminiscent of an Isolating Language such as Chinese (because Esperanto is an Isolating Language and not a Transitive Language, despite what Wikipedia says. Claude Pirion has an excellent write up about the phenomenon)

[RoaringFlameCat]

I can't wait until I'm fluent in Esperanto.

[natsinthebelfry]

I find the idea that Esperanto is too Eurocentric hilarious considering that most speakers are from China.

[celsolima]

Saluton el Brazilo! Mi parolas Esperanton ekde 1984!

[keagaming]

I love Esperanto! I'm currently learning standard Esperanto, but I know a dialect of it which I'd argue is somehow more complex than Esperanto itself. I hope to be fluent in Esperanto one day as it still takes awhile to learn even if it's easy to learn in comparison to other languages! Mi amas Esperanton! Esperanto estas lingvo bona!

[RedBoxOneOSC]

I’m learning Esperanto. I’ve been on Esperanto for 5 years. I love this language. It’s super cool and easy. I think it’s very FAST to learn Esperanto. I love this language. It’s cool and very easy to learn. Greeting from USA/Usono

[Magikarpo]

I'm learning Esperanto! I'm a bit confused on what the heck a verb noun is and where to learn vocab but I'm really proud of my progress!

[zombsterr]

I really really like languages but I'm always bummed by how hard they are to learn because of my mental disabilities, but I love poking around at Esperanto and I even kind of like the fact that it has a lot of European influence in it's language because it's just kinda neat to learn words and see how easy they correlate back to English.

[KolektodeHerkso]

Esperanto is a really easy language and worth learning

[monddasher]

esperanto has a basic phrases like hello.hello in esperanto is

[rm.makes.me.smile_]

I wonder if there’s been any attempt to add Asian aspects to Esperanto as to make it more familiar to Asian people (I know that includes India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and not just Korea, Japan, and China). Like there has to be SOME way we can make this a more globally accessible language. It’s already so close!!

[Kanguruo]

The grammar has a few slavic elements in it, but many features from other languages too. The way the words for numbers are made is identical to the way it works in Chinese and Japanese for example, not at all like French or Russian.

[ismaelmad]

Esperanto or another invented better should be established as the only official language in all international forums. It's enough that native English speakers are born with privileges over others!!!

[pasalasaga]

This is what the International language should be and not just english.

[aera]

The sounds in esperanto are the same as those polish at the time the language was created, which means speakers of most languages will need to learn at least one new sound

[FebruaryHasDays]

Fun fact: I classify Esperanto as an Indo-European language because its vocabulary and grammar are very much like most Indo-European languages.

[Sothus]

Ima learn this, I learned a little bit ( just hello, thank you, sorry, stuff like that) and i love how it is so easy and how me knowing some latin helped alot in that. Like i love how "rich" is rica, its so simple and poor is just mal-rica

[ismaelmad]

Se podía hacer una versión simplificada del español. Quitando las conjugaciones, el género y las tildes, quedaría el idioma más fácil del mundo, tanto para hablar como para escribir.