Esperanto - The most successful made-up language (The Feed)
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2013
- Just hearing snippets of Richard and Kiah talking you'd be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a Spanish or German conversation. But if you listen closely you'll realise this language is somewhere in between.
Richard and Kiah are part of a group of just a few hundred Australians who speak a made up language called Esperanto.
Produced by Jeannette Francis.
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I think that if on American Esperantist had enough money, this language could take off again very quickly. Studies show that learning Esperanto as your first second language greatly increases one's ability to learn other languages. So everyone should learn Esperanto, the international auxiliary language.
It could be a grand language for musical comedies. It has the bel canto sound.
That's Evildea before he became the most famous Esperanto youtuber.
Pablo de la Torre Gálvez JEEN EVIIILDEA VIA DIOOOOOO
Is that evildea I see?
I understood so much of what they said and only have been learning the language for 1 month. it's so easy.
Woah its evildea. I remember watching this video maybe 5 months ago and i stumble upon it again and its him lol
I am always expecting great things to come out of Australia for Esperanto, having met their Esperanto activists 1) Ambassador to the UN, Ralph Harry 2) Minister of Justice Kep Enderby and 3) Professor Daniel Kane, Cultural Attache to China. This trio is a unique powerhouse for any national Esperanto movement.
Pli facile kompreni la Esperanto (en la filmo) ol la Aŭstralia-Angla! :-)
Why we don’t need Esperanto now? Using the national language language of any country it is a language discrimination because native speakers always will have more success then people who learn their language
I want to learn Esperanto.
Your name is cool. :{D
Reminds me of my blog.. which I never update... OTL *grumble grumble*
Lol.
That aside, check out Lernu.net, and Kurso de Esperanto (www.kurso.com.br/index.php?en), both excellent free resources for learning Esperanto.
Kurso is a computer program for macs and pcs, which has 12 lessons, vocabulary, and mp3 pronunciations for the vocab as well. Which is totally awesome!
A lot of people I met love Lernu, but I prefer books.. and Kurso de Esperanto when I am in the mood. :P
Lernu is a free online learning site for learning Esperanto, with a community, forums, chatrooms, and links to free and recommended resources for learning and communicating in and about Esperanto.
It also often will announce an upcoming Esperanto event, like NASK.
(North American Summer Camp(Congress? Hmm idr) (
brotherOfSmash Oh wow! Thanks for the awesome response! :D
They have lessons on the DuoLingo app, it's completely free, everything.
+Devious Malcontent
Get the app Duolingo!
Go ahead, it's on Duolingo
Really nice presentation of Esperanto, one of the languages I speak. Learned it in Spain, now using it in China. Yes, I can speak Spanish and Chinese, but Esperanto is fun, too.
Esperanto is a great idea. I hope as many people as possible decide to learn it, so that it truly becomes a universal language. (Esperanto estas tre bona ideo. Mi esperas ke kiel eble multaj homoj decidos lerni gxin, do gxi farigxi vere universalan lingvon.)
It doesn't sound like german at all and I am a native speaker. However it is really interesting to hear the language, especially because it's a lot more recent than others!
Esperanto! I speak it fluently over 40 years ago, and have had extraordinary experiences with it through my trips over the world. It can be spoken even better than your own native tongue. It happens to me. I speak it better than Spanish, my "de-naska lingvo" (from- birth language). Dankon! (Thank you!) ... Dank-eg-on! (Thank you very much, or: Many thanks!) ... Dank-eg-eg-on! ( Thank you very, very much!)... Dank-eg-eg-eg-on! (Thank you very, very, very, very much!) and so on!...
I am romanian and I understand most of the words, although it's the first time I hear about this language
3:59 - Inside jokes for Esperanto speakers only.
Let me guess "collo" is neck, from "collar", and "-ego" is big, of course. Wouldn't it just be a big neck?
Exactly - kolego vs kol-ego - two different things. Hysterical, right? I just love how they're there chuckling over the joke and it's never explained for the viewers.
2:33 10.000 to 2.000.000 is kind of vague..
A while ago, facebook said that 330.000 of its users claimed to speak Esperanto.
The duolingo-website will tell you over a million people have started to learn Esperanto
I'd learn this quickly. En/Es/Fr
Ŭa, tiu lingvo sonas kiel la Angla! (/trolaĵo)
ne, ĝi sonas kiel latina (angla estas 29% latina, 29% franca...)
Vanege Ĝi vere faras!
Kio estas ŭa aŭ uxa
I think it's easy to learn.
Mi pensas, ke ĝi estas facile lernebla.
Mi estas gimnaziano en Usono kaj mi tre amas lernas lingvoj!!! Ĉu ekzistas iu ajn alia?
Evildea before Fame!
Could anyone ACTUALLY think they were speaking Spanish or German?!
+TheOtsajn I didn't, But I do notice quite a resemblance to spanish personally.
+TheOtsajn A Brazilian heard the language in San Diego and he thought it was German. A Mexican woman thought it was Italian. A person from Palm Springs thought it was Russian. A girl in my class thought it was Spanish. It varies from person to person, when they are not exposed to different languages. I thought it was Spanish when I first listened.
I'd say so since it's a combination of Spanish, German, french and English and people don't usually hear any other language rather than their own native tongue, so when a person hears a snippet of that language being spoken in conversation they may think it's the language of which the certain words they heard spoken originated from. But hey what do I know?
No. It doesn't sound Spanish. Spanish is my mother tongue and Esperanto doesn't sound Spanish at all. But that does not mean there aren't similar words
esparanto it does not sound nothing like german and english at all
In Portuguese it sounds funny: Esperanto vai ficar "esperando".....lol
Dankon pro ĉi tio! Kiel bone estas trovi Aŭstralianoj kiuj ŝatas Esperanton tiom kiom mi.
Amazing. Mi gusto, i love this, mucho libre de mundi.
What if we made a country called esperantia with only esperanto speakers?
Well the idea behind the language was to create an international language that could help everyone communicate with one another (so that whether you are Japanese, English, Italian, Iranian, etc, etc you could understand and speak to one another in this language), not to isolate people even more.
That would be lovely, a homeland and base for its unique and peaceful culture, a more neutral and example community for world peace 💚🌍🌎🌏🌐🗺🌺
what a rare language!
Darkwisp 2 million out of 7 billion, a rather small amount of people compared to the larger overall population.
+Vergil III-VII-MMI most languages are spoken by less than a mill soo
Ĉu ilin en Melburno?
Sounds more like Portuguese than Spanish.
It's phonology is closer to Spanish than Portuguese, since it has the same 5 vowel sounds of Spanish, while Portuguese has additional vowel sounds as well as nasal vowels. I'd say the closest language to Esperanto in phonology is Italian, since both have the same 5 vowels and almost the same consonants phonemes.
Jaye Rodriguez do you understand that it is a mixture of Spanish, Portuguese German French and English.
Kyronn Young Did I say the entire language sounds like Portuguese? No. I was referring to that as a Spanish speaker, I hear more Portuguese-sounding words than I do Spanish. Sounds like your English reading comprehension could actually use some work.
Jaye Rodriguez when did I say anything about YOU claiming anything?
Kyronn Young Your comment was in response to something that I commented, meaning you are addressing something that I commented. Is it really that hard to understand?
Very interesting, but I think there is a need for Esperanto. Many people don't have the time to learn English for years and years. Many people still speak extremely basic English and have big communication problems
That's where Esperanto would come in handy as well. You can learn Esperanto in 20% of the time (averagely), that you need to learn English. I'm German and I'm torturing myself with irregular (english) verbs and grammar for almost 30 years now. Esperanto, I spoke fluently after less than one year (!)
plus it levels the playing field, now you have a huge advantage being an English native speaker.
Another useful thing about learning Esperanto is that when you visit some countries they will still understand u
Now that I knew the man was polish I'll look into it
Mi estas lerna Esperanton nun. Ĝi estas tre facila lingvo, ĉu ne?
I am learning Esperanto now. It is a very easy language, isn't it?
Jes, Esperanto estas tre facila
Holy crap I thought only I wrote my m's that way!
tiu estas bonega! Pli da homoj devus lerni Esperanton.
South Will Rise Again Konsentite!
I like esperanto
Actually it was "Ludovic Zamenhof" not Ludwig.
Esperanto is the Unicode Consortium before the Unicode Consortium.
I don’t understand how anyone can think it sounds like German.
It sounds like English and Spanish to me
I think it's extremely naive to think that everybody speaking the same language will lead to world peace. The British made English the official language of their colonies and it didn't result in peace there, so why should Esperanto achieve a different result?
In that time, the British tried to force everybody to speak English. With Esperanto, nobody is being forced to learn it, everyone who speaks it chose to do it.
I'm from Malawi, which used to be a British colony. Many people there speak English, but they were taught it in school. Saying they were forced is an exaggeration. It just shows how weak your theory is, and that it is based on a utopian fantasy.
It's less that it will lead to world peace....it's more that everyone will be able to understand each other, which will stop a lot of petty fights based off of misunderstanding
+Amaravi Esperanto is not going to solve the problems of humanity. Communication is the first step, whether it be Esperanto or not. As long as human beings have bad qualities, such as arrogance over others, then no peace will be reached regardless of what language is spoken.
Cassie Blackwell If everyone speaks the same language then you have more petty fights. Look at the dumb president with his pettiness. If he spoke his native language of Covfefe, then no one would realize what an ass he was.
Ne estas evildea via namo sed riĉardo? Kioooooooo?
Mia dio.
Hmd
Mi ŝatas la slavaj influoj en Esperanto - tamen mi ĝojas ne devi lerni tipa slava gramatiko!
I really do not like artificial languages but I think everyone find their own language that can connect with ,in my case English is my favourite language just as French not because they are famous but speak them is an Orgasm for me
They used the word terebi for tv that's a Japanese word that means tv
Soon Lojban will rise, just you wait
it sounds Romanian a bit....but what most of you don't know, is that Romanian language is the mother of all Latin languages...
(X) Bullshit
ok man, you know it all
Actually Latin is the forbearer of Romanian, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and a few others.
Just ask the people of Melonville, who in a proposition prevented Esperanto from becoming the official language (yes, I remember SCTV).
Neat
Technicaly all languages are made up with chinese spoken the most. And esperanto is needed , by spending less time mastering a language you can do more fun things as a child on school.
Why don't we revive Latin or Ancient Greek on a large scale instead?
Roberto Orsi Mainly because even the most dedicated people after spending 10+ years can't conquer the grammar of Latin. Very few people are able to do anything but translate out of it. Translating into it is another story. It's also not in use by anyone as a spoken living language. Esperanto however can be learned to conversational level in 2 weeks - 6 months (depending on how good you are with languages). It's also spoken by somewhere between 500k - 2 million people.
Ave true to Caesar!
+Roberto Orsi Did u tried to study latin? Very hard, but esperanto is sooo easy.
yo wait is this evildea
so Esperanto is the EASIEST language any one can learn??
Sure! ;-)
Nah
Anet Alis
How do you know unless you actually try and learn it? ;)
Parsa9 I tried. English is much easier, and so are French and Spanish.
Learning a new language will be as hard as any kind of language
*Constructed
Jes, ĝi efektive ne ekzistas.
I o-nong-long-yong kong-nong-o-wong Ong, E-nong-gong-long-i-song-hong, a-nong-dong song-o-mong-e Pong-i-gong Long-a-tong-i-nong, I fong-o-rong-gong-e-tong Pong-i-gong Long-a-tong-i-nong a-long-long tong-hong-e tong-i-mong-e. :P
No global spoken word will work buttt a global sign language is still possible.
Dustin Tacohands Not if you have Tacos for hands, it's not.
What's the difference? There are thousands of spoken languages and hundreds of signed ones
I just wish this language was main language of the u.s :/ english in my opinion sounds to boring
That might be because you haven't fully mastered it
+Doctoro Esperanto Why did you flame him like that? 😂 You roster him all the way from the 1870's
Yohan Alzuhairi Well maybe if you could actually speak it properly you might understand how great of a language it is.
That's because you already know English. There's nothing new to learn about it to you, and so it's boring.
??? Esperanto does not belong to "made-up", "constructed" or "artificial" languages. IT IS DIFFERENT. It was the only one conceived and developed by a child, born polyglot, a virtuoso of Pig Latin (verlan in Fr). He just inverted its code, making clear syllables instead of concealing ones, and eliminating the ballast of grammatical forms. Later it inspired linguists such as Lucien Tesniere, Charles Carpenter Fries, George Galichet. Abundant poetry an fiction was created in it, and even more translations, sometimes better than the original texts
Yiddish is bigger though
yet more complicated
Yiddish is an ethnic language. The point of Esperanto is that it's not linked to any country, ethnicity, nationality or religion
EVILDEA!!!!!!
But aren't all languages made up
+Smooooth yes but "natural"languages are created over a long period of time by communities
while this one is created by a single dude in a "shorter" time
ilovepudding Oh that makes sense
Zamenhof has been dead for a century. The community developes Esperanto just like other languages are developed
Sounds like Italian
Bialistoko ne estas vilaĝo, ĝi estas urbo!
Białystok is not a village, it's a city!
I speak pig laten tsia aa ewna anguagela pokensa yba yma iendsfa
Ndaa ema
A language for everyone, that's supposed to be familiar to everyone... Then why is it so Eurocentric?
Ok, you sorta missed the point. Interlingua is MUCH more europe-centric, and I stress that the point of esperanto is not an easy vocabulary but an easy pronunciation and grammar.
Interlingua is only that way due to all the westernization, past colonization, etc. And yes, I recognize that Esperanto's emphasis is on easy pronunciation and grammar rather than vocabulary. My comment was more about the literal meaning of universal and how the interpretation in this video is a common mentality among us westerners. We often ignore other languages and cultures, even in our attempts to be inclusive. We assume everyone is like us or has been exposed to "our ways" to some degree, so it should be universal through familiarity. My issue is less to do with Esperanto specifically, and more to do with the broader mindset.
A constructed international language can't be based on proportional representation of languages based on number of speakers or equal representation of languages around the world. You can't mix together completely different language groups without creating a mess. There has to be a certain internal consistency - grammatically, lexically, and phonetically. In any case, the alleged Eurocentrism of Esperanto hasn't prevented it from being popular in Asian countries like Japan, China, and Korea. Japan has one of the largest Esperanto movements in the world. People in those countries like the regularity of the language and the fact that it gives them an easy entry into European languages - plus they appreciate the global Esperanto community with its message of peace and friendship. Is English any less Eurocentric than Esperanto? It's a Germanic language with a large French-Latin element. As for Threalthen1992 saying "it's only for white people", that's ridiculous! Plenty of non-white people around the world have learned Esperanto and use it - in Asia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere. I'm not white myself. Esperanto is no more exclusively for white people than are English, French, or Spanish.
***** The alternative is to stop calling this "the language for everybody." Esperanto excludes far too many languages (at no fault of its own) for it to be a balanced representation of and bridge between the world's languages. I'm fine with it being called an international auxiliary language, because that is precisely what it is.
Nyegosh Dube People around the world can/do appreciate Esperanto and any other language. Languages themselves don't omit foreign candidates from learning them. I am not debating, nor do i have issues with any of this. My issue lies in the fact that this glorified international auxiliary language doesn't give equal stage to so many other languages, thereby placing their global cultural and linguistic significance in the backseat. I recognize that the creator didn't have malicious intent behind the creation of this language (its message is good), but that's the effect it has. When Westerner's promote this language in the way they do, it worsens this effect. When the rest of the world embraces a language that excludes so many others as universal, out of convenience or only because of the message, they reduce their own language's significance in the grand scheme. Much of this done out of convenience, but Esperanto would have to include a larger variety languages for it to be universal in the technical sense.
hellspwanedperson
you can criticize everything. The alternative of world communication is indeed worse and anglocentric in vocabular and everything else: English. Now the English culture circulates on a highway to the other countries, and only some cultures can circulate into other countries, mainly going first through the English countries after the filtering is done. If English natives don't like something, that cultural item will hardly be spread to non-English countries.
95% of human kind wasting a lot of time, 5% relaxing. Would it be better a language with 2 words of every single 6000 languages in the world? i guess not because you would only know 4 words if you were lucky. Some people already call Esperanto a stupid mix, how would they call that one? :/
Unesco supports it, it's the fairest solution nowadays and it's well developed through everyday's use.
Only AI is capable to create a perfect language. Mark my words, when singularity happens then AI will be able to translate from any language to another perfectly and then it'll realize how to make up one single language which will have good balance between richness and simplisity.
Novaĵoj de Hollywood...
Kiah sekse molestas pentrartojn.
היי כולם אני השטן מבית ספר קשת
Aaa, verdaj pomoj.
Oranĝoj.
Ruĝa pomo.
Verda pomo.
Grapfrukto.
It's not something like Klingon... (tiu ĉi frukto strangas...)
poop
When you speak German, without a tongue!
we have a universal language, its called mathematics/music, the purest function of an expressed waveform...
And how exactly do you hold a conversation about dinner in math or music?
Taima Spoken language is music, having rhythm, frequency, undulation, oscillation, vibration, resonance, tonality, fluency, et.al It tends to demonstrate itself. Have a super day!
Taima Well, technically speaking you can. Speilberg did it in close Encounters using music to talk to aliens and modems/acoustic couplers do it through the phone line. The only problem, like all languages, is that we need to know the vocabulary and grammar in order to communicate. My local supermarket cashier can't work out my correct change, so I suppose that math is out of the question. I wonder if she's tone deaf?
I'm not a fan of made-up languages primarily because they have no history.
If I learn a word in a different language, I like to know where it comes from.
Italian is very good for this, since it has Latin behind itself.
TheFilipFonky Actually, Esperanto is 100+ years old with a very rich history and culture. More than happy to provide links if asked.
***** Jesus christ, read a book.
***** I never even mentioned the bible, are you alright in the head?
***** Not really.
***** You don't sound very convincing with all those insults.
Meanwhile indigenous languages/dialects with evident cultural significance are being destroyed thanks to "westernisation".
As interesting as this is, I would rather preserve a language that's existed for thousands of years by learning it than learn Esperanto.
The aim of the language is nice though but my views will not change
***** Well people can learn whatever they wish to, but I agree that the preservation of indigenous languages is something that really is worth the effort for various reasons, but I doubt that most will survive as many have already died out and others are slowly following suit.
***** It is a shame. It's like how Gaelic in Scottland is dying out. But I mean, it's not really necessary in today's day and age, as much of a shame as it is. Esperanto, however, is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn and can be considered a useful stepping stone into the world of language learning. Perhaps you could learn this, then go out and learn a dying aboriginal Australian language maybe?
***** Well, you're more than welcome to learn them. I as an Esperanto speaker tried once. I was refused access to the community because I wasn't a descendent. I also speak Esperanto fluently. However, at the end of the day people will learn what they want to and what's useful. Esperanto falls into both those categories.
***** Dumb bitch
Esperanto is a joke, and shouldn't be taken seriously (an Esperanto speaker here). It's very much a cult-like movement which, realizing its 19th century ideological foundations were based on a quasi-religious simplistic false premise that the world's conflicts and divisions could be boiled down simply to the ''lack of linguistic unity'' and that introducing a common language could solve everything, is now having an identity crisis regarding its aims and functions as an international movement. Nevertheless, it makes a good hobby and is a nice travel tool to get to know interesting people and have fun, otherwise it belongs to a history museum as a curious artifact from an interesting era.
Do you speak Esperanto fluently?🙂
Nur havi lingvon ne sufiĉas. Lingvo devas kunporti esperon aŭ idealon aŭ projekton.
Esperanto only works for Euros...
+Lol not true :)
+Lol lel its extremely popular in Japan and pretty popular in China. It's raising in status in Africa more recently.
+SuperAabbcc123456 still combo of euro languages, needs variety.
+Lol lel sorry it was made in the 1800s. It also includes Turkish and some Persian aspects. And it doesn't matter if its solely European, it is extremely easy to learn no matter what. Once again, super popular in Japan.
+SuperAabbcc123456 would u accept a newly made language consisting of only japanese chinese and taiwanese even if it was super popular?
no - you would want more variety.
they are clearly hipsters... one them is riding a unicycle for sucks sake!
It sounds too much like Norwegian and not enough like Latin... I do not approve
This language sounds terrible, sorry.
Karl Marx doesn't need to like everything. ^_^
Heh, its stupid to make a "new" language by using words of the existing ones.. It should have been completely new, every word should have been made up.
You don't agree?
no, because then it would be harder.... the whole point of it is that it uses words from several languages
That makes it easier, if you can recognize words from a language it's easier to learn them