English is burdened with a culture that emphasize empirialism, capitalism, individualism and so on. A culture that ignores climate catostraphy, global inequality and brings disproportionate attention to countries with english as national language. Additionally english is the language of Trump, Boris Johnson, Margareth Thatcher and George Bush jr… Protest the english language by embracing esperanto.
Break language segregation! Today, the world is segregated by language. It is very resource heavy to learn a new ethnic language.
Esperanto is like other constructed languages made to be easy to learn through consistent grammer, phonetics and morphemes. You know how to pronounce a sentence. You can determine the type of word by looking at the last letter. Even if you havent seen a particular word before, the chances are that you can predict its meaning if you know the morphemes. It is estimated that it requires a tenth in time investment to learn esperanto compares to ethnic languages.
The world language is political and it enables english imperialism.
Look up your local esperanto group. Learn it. Talk about it. With collegues, friends, acquantances and family. Engage your local community. Influence!
Some useful resources: Dictionary https://lernu.net/vortaro ActivityPub https://esperanto.masto.host Nice esperanto course: Kurso de Esperanto
toki pona ftw!
Could you elaborate about features you like about this language? I have never heard of it before.
From my understanding of it, Esperanto is not really that good of an international language, a lot of its phonetics are very similar to Polish (the mother tongue of its inventor) and are therefore hard to pronounce for non native speakers. toki pona on the other side has very few sounds which are super common in a lot of other languages and they are super easy to learn.
Esperanto’s grammar is a lot more harder and they have a lot more words in it. toki pona is a minimal language about 300 words if you count community used words, plus the grammar is super easy to learn.
Basically you can learn it in a couple weeks, maybe two months if you take it super easy, which makes it much more available for everyone as an international language. The downside is that since it has so little words you can’t actually use it for scientific stuff where you need a precise language, but honestly if it grows in users those words will be invented and the problem is solved.
Esperanto is still eurocentric. That is, it is only easy to learn because you already know English, and perhaps another European language. Lojban or toki pona would be a better option.
That is false. Esperanto is eurocentric. Thats true. But the reason it is so easy to learn is not because it is a merge of european languages. Rather it is because it is consistent and its many elements which by design makes the language easy to learn.
- All present tense words ends in -as, all subjectives ends with -o.
- The letters are always pronounced the same.
- The morpheme ‘mal’ is used a lot which creates the antonym of a word. Varma and malvarma means respectively warm and cold. Sana and malsana means respectively healthy and sick.
- Esperanto gives the speaker the -n suffix which is marking the direct object. In essence, this grants more flexibility to switch around on sentences to better fit how you want to speak the language.
In contrast, english is consistently inconsistent and thus makes it very hard to learn. The pronounciation changes depending on the words. The morphemes are inconsistent.
