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  • Stela is one of a few thousand native speakers of Esperanto, a constructed international auxiliary language, or auxlang, created by L.L. Zamenhoff in 1887. There over a million Esperantists worldwide. Esperanto was a precursor to Ido, another auxlang.
    This video of Stela Besenyei-Merger was self-recorded remotely due to COVID-19 and contributed by Gian Pablo Antonetti; she was in Budapest, Hungary, and he was near Scranton, Pennsylvania. Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language (auxlang), which is a variety of constructed languages (conlangs) that are intended for use in international communication. Esperanto was created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, and has since spread around the world as an option for communication with people who choose to learn the language - people who do so are known as Esperantists. Estimates range greatly due to the fact that anyone can start to learn the language and pick it up or put it down without consequence, but there is anywhere from 60,000 to 2,000,000 people who speak the language worldwide.
    Stela is a rarity in the Esperanto community because she is a native speaker of the language - there are less than 2,000 native speakers of Esperanto worldwide. She blogs about her experiences as a native speaker at stelachiamnurkritikas.wordpre..., and she has a podcast at www.laboren.org/. Read more about Esperanto on our blog: / esperanto-the-living-c... .
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  • @Wikitongues
    @Wikitongues  3 года назад +282

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    • @shybound5905
      @shybound5905 3 года назад

      @Canal do Fishuk i typed it out by hand and published the subtitles without noticing that she said min scii not mensscii at the end

    • @EzraLua
      @EzraLua 3 года назад +1

      I speak interlingua (IALA).

    • @KM-pm6qe
      @KM-pm6qe 3 года назад +1

      Ezra Lua I have never heard of this! Please do a video sometime :)

    • @EzraLua
      @EzraLua 3 года назад

      @@KM-pm6qe I will. But I'd like wikitongues to request it. 😅
      Leave your email if you want some information about how Interlingua is like.

    • @Wikitongues
      @Wikitongues  3 года назад +3

      @Canal do Fishuk thank you for the transcription! If anyone is willing to sync this transcription for subtitling, you can do so here: amara.org/v/C2Za3/

  • @abby4115
    @abby4115 3 года назад +5771

    It just sounds like another romance language. As a French native speaker it sounds like a mix between Italian and Spanish.

    • @psq6214
      @psq6214 3 года назад +630

      Very interesting because as an italian i see it as a hybrid between German and Spanish
      (There’s definitely a Germanic touch to it)

    • @francellyvaldez9247
      @francellyvaldez9247 3 года назад +414

      As an Spanish native speaker this sounded incredibly similar to Italian.

    • @SARAVANDEGIRL
      @SARAVANDEGIRL 3 года назад +215

      Francelly Valdez LOL I’m Spanish too and to me it sounded like a mix of Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German and a little bit of Hungarian and Russian XD but to me it mostly it sounds like a a Romance language.

    • @davidjames4915
      @davidjames4915 3 года назад +133

      Ya, definitely sounds like a Romance language - it's like what one might imagine Romanian to sound like; vaguely Italian and Spanish-like with some random bits of German, Slavic and maybe Hungarian thrown in. To be clear, I have no idea what Romanian actually sounds like but if someone told me this was Romanian rather than Esperanto, I wouldn't have cause to dispute it.

    • @danielserene4532
      @danielserene4532 3 года назад +101

      Esperanto is a created international language based on romance languages with a little slave/germanic/and arabic mixed in. The intention was to make a pan european language that could be basically understood by any speaker of any of the common european languages.

  • @stelabesenyei-merger1301
    @stelabesenyei-merger1301 3 года назад +4918

    I never speak this slowly, ever. :-) I am happy to see that many of you understand what I am saying. Enjoy!

    • @bgriffiths1840
      @bgriffiths1840 3 года назад +105

      Thank you for sharing! I started studying Esperanto about 5 years ago and haven't looked at it in probably two years. It was nice to hear and surprising how I could still understand. Sometimes I find myself putting Esperanto lower than the "natural" languages I've studied in my mind. This really reminds me that it is global, relevant, and living :)

    • @shybound5905
      @shybound5905 3 года назад +157

      please we need to hear what it sounds like when youre talking at full speed

    • @laislyra5512
      @laislyra5512 3 года назад +57

      @@shybound5905 we need someone to rap in Esperanto hahahaaha

    • @shybound5905
      @shybound5905 3 года назад +89

      @@laislyra5512 rap god esperanto version

    • @laislyra5512
      @laislyra5512 3 года назад +9

      @@shybound5905 yesss please

  • @affable407
    @affable407 3 года назад +375

    As a Spanish speaker, it was amazing how much of this I could understand!

    • @user-bj6cy6os9o
      @user-bj6cy6os9o 3 года назад +22

      A am a russian esperantist, and for me it is difficult to understand this... It's so ironious, because Esperanto was created in our country

    • @luzbiz9668
      @luzbiz9668 3 года назад +5

      @@user-bj6cy6os9o as a spanish speaker hearing her speaking kinda sounds like russian for me
      mostly for her " R's " and the " Sh " sound

    • @someonerandom704
      @someonerandom704 2 года назад +4

      As someone whose Spanish has rapidly advanced to conversational status and who has dabbled in Esperanto, I understand this almost 100% lol

    • @artiomboyko
      @artiomboyko 2 года назад +1

      ​@@user-bj6cy6os9o however, the structure of the sentences is really close to Russian. You often can translate Russian sentences word-by-word and get it correct, with some attention to converting some cases to prepositions. And learning the words is still easy, because of the word-building system

    • @nathanheyns7135
      @nathanheyns7135 2 года назад

      I am a third-language Spanish speaker, and I, too, could understand some.

  • @chiaracorrado8172
    @chiaracorrado8172 3 года назад +166

    My father is also a Esperanto native speaker, but he didn't speak to me in Esperanto since I was born... I'm trying to learn it now, and since I want to learn it we've decided that one day per week he will speak only Esperanto... I hope I'll be able to learn :)

    • @avery-brown
      @avery-brown Год назад +3

      Kiel via esperanton fartas nun?

    • @chiaracorrado8172
      @chiaracorrado8172 Год назад +12

      @@avery-brown Mia esperanto estas pli bone, dankon! Mi konis multaj personoj, kiuj parolas esperanton, kaj mi povis paroli ankaū kun ili. La venonta jaro estas la Universala Kongreso de Esperanto en Italio (mi venas el la Italio), kaj mi iros tie!!
      (I hope I didn't make many mistakes yeee)

    • @N0T_KnowN
      @N0T_KnowN Год назад +2

      Bonŝancon!

    • @lampshade3795
      @lampshade3795 Месяц назад

      One day a week of immersion. Sounds like a great idea. Thank you!

    • @user-xy3xd8vh6n
      @user-xy3xd8vh6n 8 дней назад

      ​@@chiaracorrado8172 how is your learning of Esperanto language going on and how was the Universal Congress of Esperanto?

  • @desanipt
    @desanipt 3 года назад +4589

    I'm Portuguese, I never studied Esperanto whatsoever, and I could understand much of what she said, I'm amazed.

    • @diouranke
      @diouranke 3 года назад +220

      Many Portuguese speaking people are Esperantists, mostly Brazilians

    • @carlosdoriaespitia
      @carlosdoriaespitia 3 года назад +232

      I speak Spanish I was wondering the same. Lol. Actually it has a lot of Latin languages influence.

    • @sodinc
      @sodinc 3 года назад +171

      @@carlosdoriaespitia as russian speaker, who doesn't know any romance languages, i would assume that she speaks Spanish. Maybe there is some phonetical difference, but it is impossible to notice for me.

    • @neilfromcork
      @neilfromcork 3 года назад +45

      I speak English, Irish, French and a tiny bit of Spanish and I understood quite a bit of what she was saying

    • @freechinastopuighurgenocid8716
      @freechinastopuighurgenocid8716 3 года назад +17

      É não é?

  • @jayolovitt5969
    @jayolovitt5969 3 года назад +3011

    I have never heard Esperanto spoken fluently. It’s actually beautiful.

    • @melissasmith6762
      @melissasmith6762 3 года назад +32

      Which languages are ugly?

    • @sketchur
      @sketchur 3 года назад +334

      @@melissasmith6762 Standard American English.

    • @kevpatguiriot
      @kevpatguiriot 3 года назад +2

      : )

    • @brunolima1997
      @brunolima1997 3 года назад +55

      @@sketchur I'm aware of the circle jerk surrounding the U.S. but I truly think the Standard American English is an amazingly beautiful language

    • @CrispyRisp
      @CrispyRisp 3 года назад +54

      @@melissasmith6762 Dutch

  • @cemreomerayna463
    @cemreomerayna463 3 года назад +226

    I just started to look at Duolingo's Esperanto course and scratched some grammar in Wikipedia after this video. Now after a short period of basics, I can easily follow her speech. It is a really exciting, and truly satisfying, experience.

    • @joelGi
      @joelGi 3 года назад +4

      @@spartacus587 For europeans or for people who already speak one of the European languages

    • @Ringo242
      @Ringo242 3 года назад

      Çok saçma

    • @Ringo242
      @Ringo242 3 года назад

      Naber, buralarda ilk defa anadolulu gordum

    • @retrofuturepi
      @retrofuturepi 2 года назад +2

      I'm learning esperanto too

    • @N0T_KnowN
      @N0T_KnowN Год назад

      ​@@retrofuturepi Also I

  • @joaoweimar8087
    @joaoweimar8087 3 года назад +3096

    Really impressive. Couldn’t never imagined native Esperanto speakers existed.

    • @pietrof.6436
      @pietrof.6436 3 года назад +138

      Thousands of them actually

    • @fosterhexxx6657
      @fosterhexxx6657 3 года назад +53

      Finally I'm watching somebody speaking it... If you got a grammar video it would be great that you uploaded it.

    • @wohdinhel
      @wohdinhel 3 года назад +166

      Esperanto is interesting in that it is the only conlang that has managed to create anything resembling a language community. Technically, anyone who grows up speaking a language as a primary language is considered a “native” and you can do that anywhere, but the adoption of Esperanto in some official contexts really solidifies the possibility of this occurring naturally rather than by arbitrary enforcement.

    • @holdthatlforluigi
      @holdthatlforluigi 3 года назад +18

      Impressive that Esperanto has that reach?

    • @sanchoodell6789
      @sanchoodell6789 3 года назад +64

      in Esperanto Land their are plenty as that lady attests but as yet there is no officially recognized Esperanto homeland or state and as such they have or are in a somewhat stateless situation. There have been a number of films made in Esperanto. One notable being one called Incubus from 1966 staring William Shatner before making a name for himself in the famous Star Trek sci-fi TV series. He is a fluent speaker as his mother was Esperanton and he spoke it at home.

  • @brbosen
    @brbosen 3 года назад +1328

    For anyone considering studying this language - I spent about 2 months in 2017 studying Esperanto, and have not studied it much since. Yet, watching this video, I was able to understand about 80% of what she said without having to try too hard. So, don't be intimidated to study Esperanto! You got this!

    • @eb.3764
      @eb.3764 3 года назад +20

      The resources out there aren't many

    • @Wikitongues
      @Wikitongues  3 года назад +153

      There are many online resources for learning Esperanto! learn.esperanto.com/en/, as well as Duolingo's program, are just two examples.

    • @Hwyadylaw
      @Hwyadylaw 3 года назад +42

      It helps if you speak languages with a lot of shared vocabulary. Just English is already a good starting point

    • @jdb6026
      @jdb6026 3 года назад +2

      Omg I started in 2017 too.

    • @brbosen
      @brbosen 3 года назад +5

      @The505Guys Great point. I used Duolingo daily and a few other methods including flashcards, a "numbers game" with my brother-in-law, and used a few other miscellaneous websites with resources.
      That being said, I have studied Spanish since I was a teenager, and I study German as well.

  • @deepautumn8253
    @deepautumn8253 3 года назад +117

    I'm an Italian native speaker, and I've learnt some other languages including Spanish. I understood almost 95% of it... Esperanto's Latin roots are definitely visible!

  • @AngeliGarEs
    @AngeliGarEs 3 года назад +11

    OMG. I started learning the language with Duolingo and Lernu like a month and a half ago and I already understood 90% of what this person said without needing subtitles! Amazing!

  • @lauraellen189
    @lauraellen189 3 года назад +1585

    I have never heard this language spoken but feel like I heard words in German , French, Spanish and Portuguese. Quite an interesting language!

    • @zoomzabba452
      @zoomzabba452 3 года назад +66

      It's is truly hybridized, invented language.

    • @SoWhosGae
      @SoWhosGae 3 года назад +27

      Sounds like romanian to me tbh

    • @anduril2695
      @anduril2695 3 года назад +49

      It's lexicon is roughly like 75% Romance in origin (French, Italian), 20% Germanic (English, German, Yiddish), and the rest comes primarily from Slavic languages and Greek if I remember right.

    • @ceciliabellentani5697
      @ceciliabellentani5697 3 года назад

      Same! It is super nice!

    • @andrewstevens2616
      @andrewstevens2616 3 года назад +2

      I heard Italian/Dutch words as well

  • @SiboWoW
    @SiboWoW 3 года назад +585

    Her accent is beautiful! What i love the most about native esperanto speakers is that they speak Esperanto as L1, but with the accent derived by the local native language., and the hungarian accent is so gentle :D

    • @philomelodia
      @philomelodia 3 года назад +11

      SiboWoW it’s freaking gorgeous! It’s hurting my feelings that I don’t have her number and I don’t speak the language myself so I can’t ask her to dinner. 🤣😊

    • @mikicerise6250
      @mikicerise6250 3 года назад +18

      I agree. Hungarian accented Esperanto sounds very beautiful.

    • @milaliah
      @milaliah 3 года назад +6

      I KNEW I heard a hungarian accent somewhere!! I thought it was just me lol 🤣

    • @solderbuff
      @solderbuff 2 года назад +4

      Same goes for some English speakers. For example, Indian L1 English speakers pronounce some words with Indian accent.

    • @darius684
      @darius684 Год назад +1

      Thats one of the cool things about espranto

  • @emmacajal6438
    @emmacajal6438 3 года назад +52

    Before maybe three months ago, I saved this video in my "watch later" and after three months studying Esperanto finally I can understand all stuff that she's speaking. I'm so happy

  • @MrBkbnk
    @MrBkbnk 3 года назад +868

    Its insane that this woman is a native speaker of conlang! She's so cool!

    • @amemabastet9055
      @amemabastet9055 3 года назад +49

      Ha! Me too. Mi lernis ĝin ĉar miaj gepatroj uzis ĝin hejme. Ĝi vere helpas min kompreni lingvojn, kaj en la lernejo mi fakte ne lernis la anglan aŭ la svedan gramatikon, ĉar mi simple tradukis al Esperanto kaj tio donis al mi la korektan respondon.

    • @piotrfelix
      @piotrfelix 3 года назад +16

      @@amemabastet9055 Mi envias vin. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @amemabastet9055
      @amemabastet9055 3 года назад +14

      @mosamosi Oh yes. Last I heard there are at least 40 000 titles, some of which are originally in Esperanto. The Austrian National Library has a museum for planned languages, Esperanto the biggest. And they have quite a lot of books as well. Somewhere in the 1920's (IIRC) both the president of Austria and the mayor of Vienna used Esperanto. Tolkien actually knew it, as did Jules Verne and Leo Tolstoj. Tolstoj sadly decided to back down due to the Russian censorship, though, to not draw too much negative attention to Esperanto.
      And then there's the music. Quite a lot of original pieces as well in Esperanto. Generally, the quality is... let's call it "varying" but I guess the best may be found at vinilkosmo.com. There are a few artists that stand out and seems to have stood the test of time. The bands that pops out of memory are Persone, Amplifiki, Teamo, Perdita Generacio for example.

    • @pia_mater
      @pia_mater 3 года назад +26

      Is Esperanto even a conlang? all words are taken from real languages so it's more like a simplified romance language rather than a full-fledged conlang like Klingon

    • @MrBkbnk
      @MrBkbnk 3 года назад +47

      @@pia_mater I mean its a constructed language, so it fits the definition. Lexically the language is fairly romance-heavy but grammatically I think its pretty distinct (I speak Spanish natively)

  • @yassi8814
    @yassi8814 3 года назад +297

    My aunt is an Esperantist. She is gonna love this

    • @guillaumevera-navas1386
      @guillaumevera-navas1386 3 года назад +3

      @@user-js8ms6pe6p And why not learning it yourself ? (kial ne studi ĝin vi mem ?) You can use Duolingo for instance, or direct method : ruclips.net/video/IZPzSIemRz4/видео.html and many others web resources

  • @blu2759
    @blu2759 3 года назад +23

    i'm italian and i can understand her almost perfectly its incredible! the accent sounds exactly like how we speak, super cool

  • @gumerboveda7828
    @gumerboveda7828 3 года назад +212

    El esperanto es una lengua estéticamente hermosa y con una gramática lógica y sencilla. En pocos meses se puede tener nivel suficiente para tener conversaciones

    • @giasharie274
      @giasharie274 3 года назад +17

      Miralem Mehanovic A mí también, sin embargo aunque no es tan internacional como su creador quería que fuese, suena como un tipo de mezcla entre Español e Italiano (con un toque que parece germánico) no parece un mal idioma para hablar.

    • @gaoelnlaojehc8913
      @gaoelnlaojehc8913 3 года назад +5

      @@giasharie274 Ahora estoy aprendiendo Espanol. El problema es que no tengo un teclado con acentos y simbolos. Que mierda.... Deseo que las conjugaciones son sencillas y logicales.

    • @parra_2270
      @parra_2270 3 года назад +2

      @@miralemmehanovic5999 es que con el esperanto se puede comunicar con personas internacionales si saber ingles

    • @wissenschaftenundpraxishan1952
      @wissenschaftenundpraxishan1952 3 года назад +2

      @@gaoelnlaojehc8913 Mira, supongo que puedes cambiar el teclado interno a español. Es lo que hago yo. Cuando trabajo con el ordenador de mi hermano que físicamante tiene un teclado inglés, igual que cuando uso mi propio ordenador que físicamente tiene un teclado alemán, los dos los he ajustado de manera que pueda cambiar entre el teclado alemán y el español en un instante.

    • @veljulian
      @veljulian 3 года назад

      @@gaoelnlaojehc8913 sean*

  • @non.newtonianfluid
    @non.newtonianfluid 3 года назад +500

    This sounds like a combination of Slavic and Romance languages. I feel like I hear Slovenian, Italian, Spanish, Polish combined!

    • @pedrosegundo8109
      @pedrosegundo8109 3 года назад +18

      Because it is

    • @stefaanvermeire4511
      @stefaanvermeire4511 3 года назад +4

      @@pedrosegundo8109 But it isn't a Frankenstein idiom made up with random parts of other languages.

    • @callisastapp7160
      @callisastapp7160 3 года назад +17

      the inventor was polish, so that make sense :)

    • @non.newtonianfluid
      @non.newtonianfluid 3 года назад +20

      @Podcast - SørenCast Z Honestly? I think Portuguese speakers can understand Esperanto well. but I don't feel like it sounds like Portuguese. I think Esperanto sounds with clean and open vowels, Portuguese sounds much more nasal.

    • @stefaanvermeire4511
      @stefaanvermeire4511 3 года назад +9

      @@callisastapp7160 Zamenhof wasn't Polish at all. Please read: "Ludwik Leyzer Zamenhof (born 15 December, 1859) grew up in Białystok (today in eastern Poland), a town within the Russian Empire with a Jewish Yiddish-speaking majority and inhabited by Jews, Poles, and Belarusians, as well as smaller groups of Russians, Germans, Tatars, and Lithuanians. Zamenhof appears to have been bilingual: speaking Yiddish and Russian at home (some sources mention Polish, too). From his father, a teacher, he would also learn German and French, as well as Hebrew. In the Warsaw gymnasium, he studied the classical languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. He also had an interest in Lithuanian, Italian and Spanish. As to English, he would have learned it only later and not very well. Polish was to be the native language of his children." culture.pl/en/article/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-esperanto-its-creator

  • @BeorEviols
    @BeorEviols 3 года назад +351

    I can understand a little bit because I speak French. Kinda feels like trying to understand Italian or Spanish to me. Seems very inspired by romance languages

    • @atomic_wait
      @atomic_wait 3 года назад +37

      Really interesting history behind Esperanto, the guy who created it wanted to make an easy to learn language to make mutual understanding across national, linguistic, and ethnic lines more feasible. I think his experience growing up Jewish in a very sectarian era in central/eastern european history helped inform his vision for a more humane, connected world. I feel like if he was attempting the same project today he'd integrate more elements from world languages he lacked access to at the time, to make it more universally easy (or hard) to learn to speak. Less Eurocentric, in any case. His use case back then was understandably focused on European conflicts, but the use case has expanded since then.

    • @Maoilios12
      @Maoilios12 3 года назад +15

      @The505Guys The League of Nations actually considered making it their official language and that gave Esperanto a lot of traction. It was even taught in some US public schools before WWII.

    • @guillaumem9953
      @guillaumem9953 3 года назад +6

      Moi aussi, il y a certains mots que je comprends ( je suis francophone et je parle anglais, un peu d’espagnol et j’apprends l’italien ), après la déduction m’aide à me faire idée de la phrase. C’est vraiment extraordinaire ! Jusqu’à maintenant je croyais que c’était un mythe !

    • @atomic_wait
      @atomic_wait 3 года назад +6

      @The505Guys True, but the goal of making a language that's easier to learn with regular grammar, spelling, and pronunciation still stands despite the ubiquity of English.

    • @123coolvideos123
      @123coolvideos123 3 года назад +7

      @@Maoilios12 Slight correction, the League only ever considered recommending that member states teach it in their schools, not making it an official language. Still impressive though

  • @orirune3079
    @orirune3079 2 года назад +73

    Wow, I started learning Esperanto on Duolingo two weeks ago and I already understand more of this than I do Mandarin which I've been studying for longer than I care to admit.

    • @hannahwalmer1124
      @hannahwalmer1124 2 года назад +5

      How long with the Mandarin, boy?

    • @orirune3079
      @orirune3079 2 года назад +13

      @@hannahwalmer1124 what a strange way to ask that

    • @hannahwalmer1124
      @hannahwalmer1124 2 года назад +4

      @@orirune3079 Was just trying to be playful.

    • @orirune3079
      @orirune3079 2 года назад +8

      @@hannahwalmer1124 Haha okay I was like wait, why is this person calling me boy???

    • @gaiagensouki
      @gaiagensouki 3 месяца назад +1

      I mean Mandarin is one of the hardest language to learn next to Arabic...

  • @olganesterowicz
    @olganesterowicz 3 года назад +12

    Mi estas feliĉa pro tio, ke Esperanto estas tiel populara, ke eĉ ekzistas denaskaj parolantoj de ĉi tiu lingvo. Tiu ulino estas la pruvo. Mi ankaŭ feliĉas pro tio, ke ĉi tiu Jutub-filmeto havas multajn vidojn. Tio signifas, ke Esperanto iĝas pli populara ol mi pensis. Mi certe povas spekti, kiel la Esperantista komunumo kreskas.
    Tio estas belega lingvo, certe.
    Cetere, via akĉento estas tre belega.
    I want to thank you on behalf of all Esperantists for promotion of this wonderful language. May the memory of L.L. Zamenhof not be lost.
    Yours faithfully,
    Olga from Poland.

  • @hotwheelsearl
    @hotwheelsearl 3 года назад +432

    I understand some of this, thanks duolingo

  • @polarbearzonthemoon
    @polarbearzonthemoon 3 года назад +13

    As a linguist this is one of my favorite channels, I love hearing people speak different languages

  • @romanr.301
    @romanr.301 Год назад +9

    I'm always amazed at the thought of native speakers of constructed languages, because to me it signals a LOT of dedication on their parents' end. I'm guessing her parents were both language nerds (not a bad thing at all!) who learned Esperanto (probably met _because_ they were both learning Esperanto), got married, and then when they had a child, spoke Esperanto around her to ensure she would speak it natively. That is quite a lot of commitment, I must say.

  • @elisatrentin
    @elisatrentin 3 года назад +34

    I’m italian, but i also speak english, german, spanish, french and understand portuguese and dutch. i find it amazing how i could understand most of what they were saying without having ever studied any esperanto. it’s truly wonderful how languages connect and interlace.

  • @mixedstaples8030
    @mixedstaples8030 3 года назад +52

    I haven't properly studied Esperanto in years, and I can still understand this! I love this channel so much

    • @Wikitongues
      @Wikitongues  3 года назад +9

      We are happy to have you here

    • @jptrrs
      @jptrrs 3 года назад +2

      Mee too! I'm amazed!
      The plant has taken roots! Sad I don't feel able to even write in it anymore, though.

  • @magyardonat1395
    @magyardonat1395 3 года назад +8

    I just finished esperanto level 1 in Duolingo (only 1lession/day) and I undenstand 90% of her video... it is surprisingly efficient. I think esperanto is a very good language for communication!

  • @allydr90
    @allydr90 11 месяцев назад +10

    As a compound bilingual (native speaker in English and Spanish) I understood almost everything and that gave me goosebumps.

  • @Greksallad
    @Greksallad Год назад +8

    I studied Esperanto on Duolingo for a while just for fun and it was extremely straightforward and not complicated at all. I was never fluent or anything but the grammar is super easy and the vocabulary is easily recognizable from Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages. If everyone ever collectively decides to have one universal language that is taught to everyone (or at least indo-european language speakers) I definitely think Esperanto should be it.

  • @Spenchjo-janPensa
    @Spenchjo-janPensa 3 года назад +31

    For those of you who wonder what exactly Stela is saying, I translated and added English and Dutch subtitles for you. :) I also added the Portuguese translation that Canal do Fishuk wrote here in the comments.
    Turn them on in the settings of this video!

    • @denizmetint.462
      @denizmetint.462 3 года назад +1

      May your life be prosperous

    • @Ge1Ri4
      @Ge1Ri4 3 года назад +3

      Much obliged! The first time I listened without captions, and didn't understand anything! After seeing your comment, I turned on the Esperanto captions and was able to recognize a word here and there. When I switched to English captions it was a lot easier to "reverse engineer" and figure out which Esperanto words mean what. I have an ancient beginner's Esperanto textbook that I've never cracked, but now I'm inspired to give it a try! Thanks again!

  • @mariaclaracirino4572
    @mariaclaracirino4572 3 года назад +20

    As a Brazilian and with Portuguese as my native language, I can find many elements of the Portuguese language in Esperanto, as well, as other languages ​​of Latin, Romanic origin.
    Very interesting 👍

  • @FeyIndigoWolf
    @FeyIndigoWolf Год назад +6

    I've been interested in Esperanto for as long as I can remember. I think I first heard about it when I was 8 or 9 years old. This video is giving me the motivation to learn it for real. I speak a tiny bit of Spanish and understand it reasonably well. The language looks like it's relatively easy to learn because the verb conjugations are pretty straight forward.

  • @joniorantunes
    @joniorantunes 3 года назад +11

    Mi gratulas Stela-n pro sia daŭro en la movado, mi konas denaskan esperantiston kiu ne plu interesiĝis pri Esperanto kiam fariĝis plenkreskulo.

  • @sternpflaume
    @sternpflaume 3 года назад +16

    This woman was in an old video on native Esperanto speakers (really good video) and she did audio for the TY Complete Esperanto. It's really nice seeing her years later!!

  • @nordeide
    @nordeide Год назад +7

    I have studied Esperanto on Duolingo for a mere two months, and I understand about 75% of what she said.
    Mi tre ŝatas Esperanton!

  • @josephglover4546
    @josephglover4546 3 года назад +20

    Wow! Hearing Esperanto spoken so fluently is truly inspiring!
    I just picked up the language a few days ago on Duolingo, but I'm happy with my progress so far =)

    • @andyblair8682
      @andyblair8682 3 года назад +4

      I learned it on Duolingo in about 5 months, 10 minutes a day...to about B2 level fluency (easily having detailed conversations). Then discovered the world of international Esperantists on WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram, Amikumu, Reddit, EventaServo, and so many more... daily chatting took it to another level.

  • @thresamatthews9096
    @thresamatthews9096 2 года назад +7

    I just started learning Esperanto. Thanks for the video! I was happy that I understood the majority of what you said. Very encouraging!

  • @qasimansari7540
    @qasimansari7540 3 года назад +13

    Sounds beautiful. Never heard Esperanto before. Happy I did.

  • @guillaumevera-navas1386
    @guillaumevera-navas1386 3 года назад +20

    Dankon Stela por via videeto. Esperanto ne estas mia denaska lingvo sed mia kora lingvo. Sed ĝi tute same gravas en mia vivo kiel en via.

  • @nohemimayorga3010
    @nohemimayorga3010 22 дня назад +1

    Hace unos dos años oí hablar del idioma esperanto, me interesó mucho y empecé a aprender en la aplicación de Duolingo. Me sorprendió bastante que pude entender varias frases sin la necesidad de leer los subtitulos. Aunque no soy constante en mis lecciones, me alegra muchísimo que en serio estoy aprendiendo el idioma ❤😊

  • @SilencedButNotForgotten
    @SilencedButNotForgotten 2 года назад +23

    Esperanto is the best.
    Easy to learn, easy to speak, easy to write.
    Since it's a mix of language, you can understand the other languages aswell.
    It also sticks with you because it was designed to be easy, thus withstanding time and effort.

    • @Lay-Man
      @Lay-Man 2 года назад +4

      It's also fun, since it's an agglutinative language.
      You can create crazy words using suffixes and preffixes. xD

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 8 месяцев назад

      It’s easy to learn to learn for EUROPEANS, it’s meant to be an international language though and it does horribly at its job

    • @davbah
      @davbah 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@EEGARIt's still easier and better than the english as internacia lingvo.

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 7 месяцев назад

      @@davbah i never said it wasnt. it doesnt make it a good interlang tho. thats like saying you're a good person because you killed 10 ppl and not 50 like they're both bad just one is worse. I would rather just make an entirely new international auxiliary language instead of fighting over 2 bad ones

    • @davbah
      @davbah 7 месяцев назад

      @@EEGAR A langage never needed to be perfect to be used and usefull. You can’t compare that to murder rampages. If you were right, I coudn’t even speak my first langage…

  • @gokhangulen4817
    @gokhangulen4817 3 года назад +14

    I fell in love with your diction and phonetic. Thanks to you I started to think about to start to learn Esperanto. I think it's worth to learn :)

  • @mendacapote
    @mendacapote 3 года назад +20

    Mi jam delonge ne parolas Esperanton eltute (pli ol 15 jaroj) kaj, verdire, mi ne memoras multon... sed aŭskulti vin tiel bone kaj bele paroli ĝin, feliĉigis min. Dankon!

  • @shadowthehedgehog9190
    @shadowthehedgehog9190 3 года назад +11

    Esperanto is a great language. I could understand her very easily even though I never studied very intensely. I did Duolingo, some stuff on Lernu years ago, and a lot of reading things in Esperanto. I use it mainly to read things other people have written/created - blogs, articles, or podcasts.

  • @Radjanamroed
    @Radjanamroed 2 года назад +5

    im from south east asia, indonesia, and my father's name is in esperanto, his name is Decquar or in esperanto Dek var which means fourteen as his birthday is in 14th of july

  • @nor0845
    @nor0845 3 года назад +8

    A joy to see and hear a native speaker 👏🏻

  • @valentinabestiaccia6422
    @valentinabestiaccia6422 3 месяца назад +4

    Mirinda, mi neniam aŭdis iun paroli Esperanton tiel rapide! Mi estas itala studentino de Esperanto kaj mi estas tre feliĉa ke ekzistas denaskaj Esperanto-parolantoj, mi ne sciis ĉi tion

  • @Steven_Stanton_Music
    @Steven_Stanton_Music 2 года назад +5

    I just started learning Esperanto a couple months ago, and it's super interesting that there are people who speak it as their native language. And yes, it's very easy, considering after only a couple months, I could understand most of what she was saying (but of course captions are always helpful).

  • @jaime9927
    @jaime9927 3 года назад +5

    Mi komprenis tion, kion ŝi diris! Dank al' Lernu kaj Anki!

    • @isaacsantiago417
      @isaacsantiago417 3 года назад +1

      Kio estas Anki?

    • @jaime9927
      @jaime9927 3 года назад +1

      @@isaacsantiago417 Ĝi estas senkosta vortkarto-programo, kiun oni povas uzi por pligrandigi sian kapovortaro. Mi vere rekomendas! Ĝi helpegas min!

  • @annaweil5348
    @annaweil5348 3 года назад +5

    Dank! I love that Esperanto has this genitive preposition from German in it, I had no idea - it was like this clear spot in the midst of something I could sort understand in a muddled way. This is so cool!

  • @ZikovanDijk
    @ZikovanDijk 3 года назад +6

    Saluton Stela, mi auxdis vin paroli Esperanton la lastan fojon en la 1990aj en Hungario. Bona registrajxo!

  • @SirLe0pard0
    @SirLe0pard0 День назад

    "Atlantis" esta volviendo.. mi gente hablará muchas lenguas y florecera la virtud y el amor en el mundo! ese es el futuro que forjan personas como vos en el aqui y ahora!

  • @kashperanto
    @kashperanto 3 года назад +27

    Estas bonega aŭdi Stela ĉi tie. Mi aŭskultis ŝian podkaston, kaj mi multe plibonigis mian aŭskultan komprenon. Mi ankaŭ lernis multe pri kiel organizi bonajn renkontiĝojn.
    Dankon, Stela, por via parolado :)

  • @gozzywozzy485
    @gozzywozzy485 3 года назад +14

    I started learning Esperanto on Duolingo today and I'm having a blast! I can't put my iPad down haha :) Mi esta Gozzy Wozzy! :D

    • @andyblair8682
      @andyblair8682 3 года назад +4

      Wait until you discover the world of Esperantists that most of us didn't even know existed, after you can start conversing you can meet tons of people from around the world in groups on EventaServo.org or WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram, etc etc.

  • @ShinobiWaNeko
    @ShinobiWaNeko 2 года назад +9

    Mi amas aŭdi denaskulojn paroli ĉar ili parolas la lingvon tiel bele!
    Dankon pro afiŝi ĉi tiun mirindan videon!

  • @expansivegymnast1020
    @expansivegymnast1020 3 года назад +8

    It honestly sounds beautiful.

  • @frostnova8300
    @frostnova8300 2 года назад +6

    As a person who is learning Esperanto (and a big language nerd), I love listening to this.

  • @wefkr
    @wefkr 3 года назад +9

    That's so freaking cool a native speaker 😲

  • @juliocesarpedrosa7266
    @juliocesarpedrosa7266 3 года назад +39

    Ŝia parolo estas flua kaj gramatike perfekta - nu, ŝi estas denaskulo! Gratulon, Stela, kaj dankon pro via (kvankam mallonga...) ĉi-tiea parolado, ĉar ĝi estas tre utila por montri, ke nia kara Internacia Lingvo de Doktoro Esperanto estas vivanta kaj plene funkcianta! :D

  • @chen-hengyang5039
    @chen-hengyang5039 3 года назад +20

    Saluton! Mi komencis lerni Esperanton ekde 2019, kaj min sentas, ke mi jam povas kompreni la lingvon nun! Estas mirinda!
    Parenteze, mia denaska lingvo estas la cxina.

    • @niklas8279
      @niklas8279 3 года назад +4

      Mi lernas Esperanto kun Duolingo, vi ankau?

    • @chen-hengyang5039
      @chen-hengyang5039 3 года назад +4

      @@niklas8279 Jes! Kaj mi ankau uzas librojn

    • @magnoghades6435
      @magnoghades6435 3 года назад +3

      Saluton ekde Kolombio, mi lernas Esperanto dum 12 monatojn. In mio Lando ne estas tre personoj ke parolas Esperanto.

    • @hernandezpachecoguillermo3551
      @hernandezpachecoguillermo3551 3 года назад +2

      Saluton al miaj amikoj esperantistoj! Finfine mi povas babili kun homoj kiuj parolas la lingvon. Por mi, Esperanto estas unu el la ŝlosiloj kiuj la artefaritaj lingvoj donas al la mondo. La lingva diverseco estas kiel bunta peco de arto el la homa esprimo. Bonvolu, daŭru multaj jaroj en nia agado kaj disvastigu -laŭ viaj ebloj, kompreneble- la deziro por paroli Esperanton! Parenteze, pardonu miaj malfacilaj vortoj 😁 Mi volas plibonigi mian vortprovizon. Ĉarmaj brakumoj el Meksiko!

    • @nancyharman4795
      @nancyharman4795 3 месяца назад

      Saluton! Mi ne parolas la cxina, sed mi sxatas paroli al vi en Esperanto! 🙋🏼‍♀️

  • @lillastrobel5792
    @lillastrobel5792 3 года назад +1

    Eddig eszperantót csak nyelvvizsgázótól hallottam! Köszi hogy megosztottad.

  • @achtube85
    @achtube85 3 года назад +7

    I studied Esperanto for a year and I totally loved it. Thinking about that time now :)

  • @mikemike8424
    @mikemike8424 3 года назад +7

    I like barely speak Spanish and I felt like I understood most of this!! languages are wild

  • @DerzkijEsperantist
    @DerzkijEsperantist 5 месяцев назад +1

    Dankon por via videaĵo mi ŝategas!. Mi lernas Esperanton. Per vi mi povas aŭskulti Esperanton. Dankegon!

  • @elenamorteo5165
    @elenamorteo5165 2 года назад +1

    Mia nomo estas Elena, kaj mi lernis Esperanto kiam mi estis infanino. Bedaŭrinde, multe da tempo. Saluton el Bonaero, Argentino.

  • @Asehpe
    @Asehpe 3 года назад +25

    Kia plezuro estas aŭdi bone parolatan Esperanton! Saluton el Nederlando.

  • @panagiotopouloukaterina6962
    @panagiotopouloukaterina6962 3 года назад +5

    Stella you are amazing!!!! 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿🐳🌺

  • @juanjoseescobar5760
    @juanjoseescobar5760 3 года назад +8

    Saluton ciuj. Recién estoy estudiando esperanto y me parece muy interesante. Estoy decidido a escribirlo y hablarlo es un reto que me he puesto. Volveré a contactar.
    Gis baldou.

  • @marioriascos
    @marioriascos 3 года назад +5

    Acabo de enterarme de la existencia de este idioma, y me ha encantado el concepto. No sé cuánto tiempo me lleve, pero lograré entender este video sin subtítulos.

  • @lauradamico6503
    @lauradamico6503 3 года назад +4

    This is so cool! I can understand almost everything she says!

  • @YHoitink
    @YHoitink 3 года назад +17

    Fascinating! I never heard Esperanto before but could understand most of it because of similarities to other languages I know. I heard Spanish, Portuguese and even some Dutch influences, I think.

    • @robertadamek2632
      @robertadamek2632 Год назад

      I heard it first time. For me as a Pole souds like mix of Italian and Spanish.

  • @lucytkmts
    @lucytkmts 2 года назад +1

    I am happy to see her talking in Esperanto so naturally and beautifully. I am inspired to learn Esperanto, thank you.
    Mi nun estas tre felice dankon.

  • @SLC-zf8kd
    @SLC-zf8kd 8 месяцев назад +4

    Fantastic proficiency and fluency. 👏👏👏A Hungarian speaker, there cannot be any doubt about it. I guess everyone who has studied Esperanto (like myself) speaks it with their own mother tongue accent, perhaps just a slight one. 😊As a teenager, I had a beautiful pen pal in Eger for several years. Gabriella, are you watching this too?🥰

  • @sirireynolds2145
    @sirireynolds2145 3 года назад +11

    Tre mojosa! Mi amas Esperanto

    • @denizmetint.462
      @denizmetint.462 3 года назад

      Très bien

    • @mayhair
      @mayhair 3 года назад +2

      Mi ne scias kiel 8 monatoj pasis, sed neniu montris ke vi forgesis la akuzativon.

  • @karlm1495
    @karlm1495 3 года назад +5

    it's amazing, i've understood 80% of words and I've never studied esperanto. Has many similarities with italian (i'm a native speaker), spanish, french, greek, latin and I also ear some english influences

  • @Cool70016
    @Cool70016 3 года назад

    Felicitari pentru munca depusa care ne face sa avem ceva timp sa facem dragoste

  • @francisgendo7297
    @francisgendo7297 2 года назад +1

    Saluton s-rino Stella el la lando Tanzanio. Mi tre ghojas audi de vi pri via konato de la lingvon esperanto. Dankego kaj gratulon.

  • @vladanlausevic1733
    @vladanlausevic1733 3 года назад +5

    So nice to hear Esperanto after long time

  • @magnoghades6435
    @magnoghades6435 3 года назад +4

    Finfine unue video in Esperanto, mi povas kompreni preskaŭ ĉion. Saluton ekde Kolombio.

  • @dianairimie726
    @dianairimie726 3 года назад +3

    I've never heard Esperanto before, but I was able to understand 80% of what she was talking - I am just amazed.

  • @jamesvanderhoorn1117
    @jamesvanderhoorn1117 Год назад +1

    Amo vin. Kial, vi eble respondusf Tial ke vi estas denaskulino!. Kaj charma!

  • @fabiolimadasilva3398
    @fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад +5

    Saluton al cxiuj cxi tie! Mi gxojas ke estas ankoraux denaskuloj en Esperantujo. Mi lernis Esperanton kiel kreskulo. Bedauxrinde mi ne havas filojn por kreskigi ilin ene de Esperanto. Ne gravas... Brakumojn el Brazilo!

  • @vybszzvyosc
    @vybszzvyosc 3 года назад +4

    such a really beautiful conlang!!

  • @bipolar_diary
    @bipolar_diary Год назад +1

    Kia impresiga video! Mi montras ĝin al tiuj, kiuj ne kredas, ke Esperanto estas vivanta lingvo / What an impressive video. I show it to those who do not believe that Esperanto is a living language.

  • @antonigarciacantautoripoet4388
    @antonigarciacantautoripoet4388 3 года назад +2

    Mi adoras esperanto sed mi estas komencanto kaj mi ankoraŭ ne havas fleco. Mi estas kataluno, mi parolas persekutita lingvo. Mi tre dankas vin
    por povi aŭskulti la internacia lingvo. Kisoj. Saluton varman el la kor.

    • @hernandezpachecoguillermo3551
      @hernandezpachecoguillermo3551 3 года назад +1

      Ne maltrankviliĝu, amiko! La lingva diverseco ne povos morti neniam! Deziras ke la situacio de la katalunoj en Hispanio plibonigos kaj ĉiuj la hispanoj vidos sin kiel fratoj, negrave la lingvo. Ĉarmaj brakumoj el la distanco! Salutoj el Meksiko!

    • @antonigarciacantautoripoet4388
      @antonigarciacantautoripoet4388 3 года назад

      salutoj ankau el la barcelono kaj granda brakumo!!!

  • @giuliawatson4119
    @giuliawatson4119 3 года назад +5

    OMG I had never heard someone speak Esperanto before and it's beautiful! I'm amazed because I could understand the majority of the words. I'm Italian, fluent in English and Spanish, but I studied also German, Portuguese, Latin and ancient Greek (I noticed that "and" is "kai" like in ancient Greek LOL) at school. I love it!

    • @andyblair8682
      @andyblair8682 3 года назад +1

      If you already speak all those languages, learning Esperanto will be child's play for you. It's like a free extra language! I'll bet you could learn it in 2 months without much effort.

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 Год назад

      @@andyblair8682 How could anyone learn the entire vocabulary in 2 months? That's ridiculous!

  • @madragoakajjosenilton9887
    @madragoakajjosenilton9887 3 года назад +15

    Saluton el Brazilo, Stela! Via esperanta nivelo estas treege bona, certe danke al via denaskeco kaj ankaŭ al via senĉesa esperant-lingva agado.

    • @iTheusxz
      @iTheusxz 3 года назад

      @@allanism Pronome neutro KKKKKKLKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK se fude

    • @iTheusxz
      @iTheusxz 3 года назад

      @@allanism Muita masturbação mental

    • @matthewsaints350
      @matthewsaints350 3 года назад

      @@allanism Vai sonhando.

  • @user-xn8hk4je4i
    @user-xn8hk4je4i Год назад +1

    thank you very much. miss stella.

  • @63sandes
    @63sandes 2 года назад

    Vi parolas esperanto trê bone,mi estas lernantas paroli gí ankau.Congratulo!! You espeak it very well.

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia 3 года назад +31

    She makes it sound so beautiful. I’ve never wanted to study it before. Butafter hearing her speak it and hearing how naturally it flows makes me reevaluate. I mean, she makes it sound downright sexy. Lol!

    • @MarkEmperor
      @MarkEmperor 3 года назад

      Mi scias! Sxi parolas la lingvo tiel bela. (I know. She is speaking the language so beautiful.)

  • @RobertLock1978
    @RobertLock1978 3 года назад +4

    Zamenhof was born on 15 December [O.S. 3 December] 1859, the son of Markus Zamenhof (27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1837 - 29 November [O.S. 16 November] 1907) and Rozalia (Sofer) Zamenhof (1839 - 1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1892), in the multi-ethnic city of Belostok in the Russian Empire (now Białystok in Poland).[8] At that time the city was in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire as a result of the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit. *His parents were of Litvak Jewish descent.* This group inhabited the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He appears to have been natively bilingual in Yiddish and Russian.[9] His father was a teacher of German and French. From him, Zamenhof learned German, French and Hebrew. He also spoke some major languages of Białystok: Polish, Yiddish, Belarusian, and German. Polish became the native language of his children in Warsaw. In school he studied the classical languages Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. He later learned some English, though in his own words not very well. He had an interest in Lithuanian and Italian and learned Volapük when it came out in 1880. By that point his international language project was already well developed.[10][11]
    In addition to the Yiddish-speaking Jewish majority, the population of Białystok included Roman Catholic Poles and Eastern Orthodox Russians (mainly government officials), with smaller groups of Belarusians, Germans and other ethnic groups. Zamenhof was saddened and frustrated by the many quarrels among these groups. He supposed that the main reason for the hate and prejudice lay in the mutual misunderstanding caused by the lack of a common language. If such a language existed, Zamenhof postulated, it could play the role of a neutral communication tool between people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.[12]

  • @cdelalora
    @cdelalora Год назад +1

    Kiralyi !!! Nagyon jo a kiejtes. Szeretnek tanulni esperanto. Spanyolul az anyanyelvem

  • @braveliontv935
    @braveliontv935 2 года назад +7

    🙉🙉🙉🙉 what a beautiful language, ooh my gosh , I wish to learn this language it's nice one,
    People who wanna learn esperanto
    👇

  • @gourabroy1435
    @gourabroy1435 2 года назад +26

    Hello! I am from India. I am a die-hard fan of Esperanto. I believe that Esperanto should be the main language of the United Nations.

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 8 месяцев назад

      It’s shouldn’t it’s only easy to learn for European speakers not anyone else

    • @sarangbsr
      @sarangbsr 8 месяцев назад

      @@EEGAR Non-european language speakers in the world learn and speak English very well, which is from indo-european language family. Currently English has most European words than ever had before, approximately 70%. So the claim that esperanto is easy only for european speakers doesn't makes any sense at all.

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 8 месяцев назад

      @sarangbsr english being an inefficient language has nothing to do with Esperanto. Esperanto is a CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE, so there is no reason for it to be like that. It is meant to be an INTERNATIONAL auxiliary language, and if it does not optimize itself to be easy to learn INTERNATIONALLY, then it is not a good INTERNATIONAL language. The reason english has mostly european words is because it wasn't made artificially. the whole point of making an artificial language for an IAL is so that it doesn't have to be naturalistic, there is no reason why esperanto cant have words from other major language families. Its outdated, eurocentric, and racist

    • @EEGAR
      @EEGAR 8 месяцев назад

      @@sarangbsr also just because non europeans can speak english doesnt mean it is easy or an efficient language, solving that is the whole point of making a constructed IAL, not to make a constructed language also difficult to learn. like what is even ur point

    • @sarangbsr
      @sarangbsr 8 месяцев назад

      @@EEGAR
      1) Almost All languages used today are outdated. Be it English, German, Spanish or Dutch etc. So "languages being outdated" doesn't make any sense.
      2) Never thought that a can also be racist. I wouldn't have been surprised if u called a person racist. But man, u r calling a language racist??😆😆That a weird and ridiculous thinking.
      3) 70% of English vocabulary and 88% of spanish vocabulary comes from European languages. So English and Spanish are also euro-centric languages. But does that mean we will stop speaking and learning english and spanish just because it's euro-centric and we are not europeans??

  • @flaviojosegomesfernandez7312
    @flaviojosegomesfernandez7312 3 года назад +3

    Wow this is amazing I'm just one week into learning Esperanto and can already understand what she is saying 😳

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtis 6 месяцев назад

    Bravo! Thanks for sharing and the best of luck!

  • @danopticon
    @danopticon 3 года назад +8

    This is awesome, and I’m a little jealous: I’ve been obsessed with Esperanto since I first heard of it, as a child growing up in the 1970s obsessed with geodesic domes, the Dymaxion map, A-frame houses, Arcosanti’s groundbreaking and construction, human rights, and utopia generally. I’ve finally been studying Esperanto using Duolingo… whose little owl mascot resembles the Esperanto flag! I wonder if Stela is part of Pasporta Servo? _Dankon, ke vi montris Esperanton!_

    • @ronaldonmg
      @ronaldonmg 2 года назад +1

      Stela was involved with Pasporta Servo. In fact, she was in charge of the 2017 edition of the booklet

    • @amadeosendiulo2137
      @amadeosendiulo2137 Год назад

      I googled the owl colour and what I got is
      "The reason the Duolingo owl is green is because green is Severin's least favorite color. The other co-founder, Luis, decided to make the mascot green just to mess with his co-founder." xD
      So not related to our flag.

  • @F-Man
    @F-Man 3 года назад +61

    Native English speaker and L2 Spanish speaker here - understood practically everything. Interesting.

    • @kennethbucknam6838
      @kennethbucknam6838 3 года назад +6

      Default Profile Picture I’m a Native English speaker and am a proficient Spanish speaker. I’m with you. I understood maybe 20%.

    • @James-nv9fi
      @James-nv9fi 3 года назад +5

      Native English, High level of Spanish, ‘practically everything’ is bullshit.
      I can definitely get parts and words and recognise a romance cadence in parts but generally it’s a bit of a blur.

    • @maeannabelle
      @maeannabelle 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, I think this is just because you don't know the grammar, I would try spending a week learning grammar and I'm pretty sure you'd be able to understand pretty quickly!!

    • @novikane14
      @novikane14 3 года назад

      @@maeannabelle they could probably do an hour of understanding the tenses, pronouns and a couple of correlatives. And their comprehension would skyrocket.

    • @maeannabelle
      @maeannabelle 3 года назад

      @@novikane14 yeah I agree! Don't want to risk overselling it haha. There's also a difference between written and spoken Esperanto. Listening skills may be a bit harder to acquire but written comprehension is much easier