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Esperanto is an artificial language invented by Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. Up to two million people worldwide speak Esperanto, including about 1,000 to 2,000 native speakers who learned it from birth. Its usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America. It has vocabulary mainly from Romance and Germanic languages (but more with the former). Its grammar and phonology is similar to Slavic languages.
Do you think Esperanto is beneficial or rather redundant?
Esperanto is an artificial language invented by Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. Up to two million people worldwide speak Esperanto, including about 1,000 to 2,000 native speakers who learned it from birth. Its usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America. It has vocabulary mainly from Romance and Germanic languages (but more with the former). Its grammar and phonology is similar to Slavic languages.
Do you think Esperanto is beneficial or rather redundant?
Useless for practical purposes, but it's good as a path for learning Indo-European languages.
Esperanto is an artificial language invented by Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. Up to two million people worldwide speak Esperanto, including about 1,000 to 2,000 native speakers who learned it from birth. Its usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America. It has vocabulary mainly from Romance and Germanic languages (but more with the former). Its grammar and phonology is similar to Slavic languages.
Do you think Esperanto is beneficial or rather redundant?
It is as beneficial or redundant as Klingon or the Elfish language that Tolkien invented.
Well it was originally designed as a lingua Franca, but since English took that role it's pretty useless in that regard. However it is a great tool for introducing people to learning other languages. It's very easy to learn (from what I hear) and gives you a good grasp on what grammar is and how languages are constructed, on top of that the vocabulary is based on real words from other languages so it makes it easier to learn other European languages afterwards.
Well it was originally designed as a lingua Franca, but since English took that role it's pretty useless in that regard. However it is a great tool for introducing people to learning other languages. It's very easy to learn (from what I hear) and gives you a good grasp on what grammar is and how languages are constructed, on top of that the vocabulary is based on real words from other languages so it makes it easier to learn other European languages afterwards.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn't agree more.
Useless for practical purposes, but it's good as a path for learning Indo-European languages.
I see Esperanto as a remarkable success story, by far the most successful auxiliary language. It has survived wars and revolutions and economic crises and continues to attract people to learn and speak it. Over 750,000 people have signed up to the Duolingo Esperanto course in the last year. Esperanto works. I’ve used it in about twenty countries over recent years. I recommend it to anyone, as a way of making friendly local contacts in other countries. Esperanto is useful as well as serving as a good introduction to learning other languages.
The English language has relatively simple grammar rules, and is supposedly easy to learn, but the big problem is the unphonetic writing system. If that could be reformed then English would be ideal as a universal language not simply because geopolitics made it that way, but rather because it's the easiest to learn.
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Esperanto - a remarkable success story
