Cut all trade. Damn, usa boycot came to the pathetic level i’m not even accepting american-english when installing an o/s. It’s a common default, but i scroll to uk or canadian english. Pathetic, i know, yet here we are.
If you prefer apps, https://www.duolingo.com/ works great in English, if a lot of examples is your way to go.
Of you are a book person, I have read that “Complete Esperanto” by Tim Owen is highly acclaimed. Also “Esperanto per rekta metodo” (“Esperanto by direct method”, so directly on Esperanto with elimination of translations) works great for many people.
Using Anki flashcards helps to memorize words, but I am not using it so I am not sure where to find the data to use…
If you prefer in-person course, you may ask people from the Esperanto organization in your country (see https://uea.org/landoj), or visit some meeting to get in-depth answers and make new friends (see https://eventaservo.org/).
Ultimately, it depends on your learning style to select (or create) a learning process, but these are solid. Enjoy, and please comment here after some time about your progress. I would love to know!
English, as an national language, is great for national communication.
But using national language for international communication is like using black-white television to watch a color movie - it kind of works, but it definitely loses a lot.
There are at least 2 important factors:
neutrality: English used for international communication favors people from English speaking countries. Inside of Europe that is not to big problem, because Ireland and Malta, while being great counties, have relatively small population - so English can work as a reasonably neutral language for European communication. But when it comes to Europe in world - English is used but a country that left us and by country that wages trade war against us. That highlights that English definitely is not a worldwide neutral language.
ease of use: Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use, while functioning very well as a mean of communication. It does not carry a burden of centuries of non-systemic evolution, so it does not have things like irregular verbs. It’s grammar is very regular with simple rules. It enables creating words with a set of prefixes and sufixes so one does not need to learn a bunch of new (different) words about related things (like: to eat, to snack, to feast, food, meal, cantina, utensils, etc. - they are manĝi, manĝeti, manĝegi, manĝo, manĝaĵo, manĝejo, manĝiloj etc). Experience shows that learning Esperanto is 5-10x faster that learning national languages. It’s just much not efficient.
Than comes other factors, like pushing some way of thinking, usual for one specific nation, to all humankind, atc, but those 2 are the basic ones.
Cut all trade. Damn, usa boycot came to the pathetic level i’m not even accepting american-english when installing an o/s. It’s a common default, but i scroll to uk or canadian english. Pathetic, i know, yet here we are.
I double check everything I buy, to make sure nothing supports USA.
This is why I support Mark Carney in using British spellings and words. Let’s gut out all the American influence from our English.
Why bother yourself with “color” or “colour” when you could choose the Anglish hue?
No no no, if you still want to use English, then it’s a chance to move to Shavian.
https://www.shavian.info/
Nah. Back to Futhorc runes
Mirror-versions/rotations of letters is a terribly ableist way of designing a writing system.
😅
we need to dream big! 😆
I even work on spreading Esperanto, as a neutral language for Europe and humankind 🫡
this is our chance! :D
I have been interested in Esperanto for unrelated reasons, any tips on where to start?
If you are website enjoyer, https://lernu.net/ is a solid, free of charge web course in many languages, with big community.
I have also heard good reviews on the Zagreb Method - https://esperanto12.net/
If you prefer apps, https://www.duolingo.com/ works great in English, if a lot of examples is your way to go.
Of you are a book person, I have read that “Complete Esperanto” by Tim Owen is highly acclaimed. Also “Esperanto per rekta metodo” (“Esperanto by direct method”, so directly on Esperanto with elimination of translations) works great for many people.
Some very basic stuff, mostly list of common phases for traveling, it’s available at Wikivoyage, in several languages 👇 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143#sitelinks-wikivoyage
Using Anki flashcards helps to memorize words, but I am not using it so I am not sure where to find the data to use…
If you prefer in-person course, you may ask people from the Esperanto organization in your country (see https://uea.org/landoj), or visit some meeting to get in-depth answers and make new friends (see https://eventaservo.org/).
Ultimately, it depends on your learning style to select (or create) a learning process, but these are solid. Enjoy, and please comment here after some time about your progress. I would love to know!
https://lernu.net/
Why? English from England.
English is just not great as an international language. It is one because of imperialistic history.
Between the US and brexit, it’s a great incentive to maybe move on.
Year of Esperanto here we come! XD
English, as an national language, is great for national communication.
But using national language for international communication is like using black-white television to watch a color movie - it kind of works, but it definitely loses a lot.
There are at least 2 important factors:
neutrality: English used for international communication favors people from English speaking countries. Inside of Europe that is not to big problem, because Ireland and Malta, while being great counties, have relatively small population - so English can work as a reasonably neutral language for European communication. But when it comes to Europe in world - English is used but a country that left us and by country that wages trade war against us. That highlights that English definitely is not a worldwide neutral language.
ease of use: Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use, while functioning very well as a mean of communication. It does not carry a burden of centuries of non-systemic evolution, so it does not have things like irregular verbs. It’s grammar is very regular with simple rules. It enables creating words with a set of prefixes and sufixes so one does not need to learn a bunch of new (different) words about related things (like: to eat, to snack, to feast, food, meal, cantina, utensils, etc. - they are manĝi, manĝeti, manĝegi, manĝo, manĝaĵo, manĝejo, manĝiloj etc). Experience shows that learning Esperanto is 5-10x faster that learning national languages. It’s just much not efficient.
Than comes other factors, like pushing some way of thinking, usual for one specific nation, to all humankind, atc, but those 2 are the basic ones.
Esperanto + Shavian is the constructed future i dream of.
By chance, is it you who is posting this on Mastodon?
i’m not on Mastodon anymore.
*ahem* Brexit
Dude. This entire country is boycotting the US out of sheer spite. You cannot out-petty us all, so carry on.
Greetings from europe (call us if you wanna talk to a friend)