Has anyone ever heard of the language Esperanto?
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"Yep, it was an artificial language which 'died'."  Hahaha\n\nMi parolas esperanton! (I speak esperanto) \n\nI speak esperanto better than english :P\n\nI have a lot of friends Esperantists!!  \n\n"Its phonetics is not very simple, it is a sexist language that considers for example, that a woman is just a female version of a man, and its derivational processes are not always very clear."\nThat is very subjective!  \n\nIt is more difficult to find idists than Esperantists!\n\nIn my opinion, what is important is to diffuse the "internal idea" (a neutral international language), and is better if is done from a sufficient strong movement(the esperantist).  Supporting Ido just would weaken a little the esperantist movement, but would not help to diffuse "the internal idea".\n\n"I've heard of it. I had a friend on livejournal.com who was studying it."\n\nSee:\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=esperanto\nhttp://community.livejournal.com/esperanto/  \n\n;D
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It's going to depend on which languages you want to learn.  If the languages you want to learn are European in origin, I have a suggestion.  \n\nWhen I was in High School, I wanted to take a foreign language course, and I had to choose between Spanish and French. I chose Spanish, but for various reasons, I failed it. For the next 24 years I was under the impression that I couldn't learn a second language.\n\nThen when my daughter was taking Spanish in High School, I found that I still remembered quite a bit of it, and began to rethink my impression about my linguistic ability.\n\nOne day I read that Esperanto was the easiest language on earth to learn. I began learning it as an experiment to see if I really could learn a foreign language. Now I'm fluent at it, and have gone on to learn Spanish (I finished the 3 Pimsleur's Spanish courses in 1 year), and moved on to German. Later I learned a little Polish (to take a business trip to Poland) and studied Mandarin Chinese (just because a friend told me about the free course work on chinesepod.com).\n\nKnowing Esperanto first, helped greatly in my other linguistic experiences, but the thing that surprised me the most was that there is a culture around Esperanto that is alive and vibrant, with Music and Literature (both translated and original). Esperanto is my favorite of all the languages, and the easiest to learn of all my language experiences.\n\nPope John Paul II has called Esperanto the "New Latin".  \n\nThis article on Wikipedia is a very interesting article about the benefits of learning Esperanto before other languages.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
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Try learning Esperanto (I speak English, Esperanto, Spanish, and German, and have studied Polish, and Mandarin Chinese) Esperanto was far easier to learn than any of the others, and it opened the world to me. I've had conversations with people from every continent, and every country, and I only had to learn the easiest language on earth to do so.\n\nYou might ask, why is Esperanto easier to learn than any of the other languages? It's because it is a language designed to be simple to learn. Most of the time spent studying a foreign language is spent learning the irregularities and rule exceptions ("I before E except after C", " 'sheep' is both singular and plural", etc). Esperanto has only 16 gramatical rules, and no exceptions to any of the rules.\n\nAnd before you ask, yes you can travel with Esperanto. Read this article in Wikipedia about the Esperanto "Pasporta Servo" (Pasport Service)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pasporta_servo
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Refer to a well known company known as Desjardins, Inc.\nIt may not be a U.S. based company, but it has operations (connected to banking) here.\n   Esperanto Santo may have been merged/taken-over by Desjardins.
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It sounds like russian
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I never thought so. That's why I learned Spanish. Ahora, el español es una lengua del amor!
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To me, it's a very elegant language.\nListening to it, I can definitely picture very proud people, noble people.\nI really like the sound of it.
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Yes, there are many of us out here who speak Esperanto.  I began learning the language in 2000, could hold simple but meaningful conversations within 2 months, and was fluent within 2 years (and I'm pretty slow with languages). As a matter of fact, I am attending the annual Tut-Teksasa-Kunveno (All Texas Convention of Esperantists) tommorrow in Hurst, Texas.  \n\nThere is a world-wide Esperantist organization (UEA - Universala Esperanto-Asocio) and there are also yearly conventions of Esperanto Speakers from all over the world as well as annual conventions for just about every country on earth.  This year's U.S. annual convention was held in New York City.  Last year's was in Austin, Texas, next year's will be in San Diego, California.\n\nSince Esperanto is a constructed language (I don't agree with the term "artificial", there is nothing in the language that is artificial, everything in the language was taken from other European languages, a more accurate description would be a constructed All-European pidgin language) and is not the national language of any country, there is no way to know exactly how many people speak it.  We know some facts, there are more than 200,000 speakers in the world (the number of people who are members of Esperanto clubs in the world), and we know that there are many more people who speak the language who are not club members.  I ran into a man in an Esperanto Chat room last week who lives in California, but is not a member of ELNA or UEA.  Most Esperantists accept the approximation of 2 Million esperantists in the world.  \n\nThere are also a few hundred Denaskaj Esperantistoj (From-Birth Esperantists) or people who's families spoke Esperanto at home, so it is their "native" language.  They are usually couples who met via Esperanto, but with different native languages, so in their homes they speak Esperanto as the family language.  I know one family (Mom, Dad, and three children) in New York who speak Esperanto at home, and their children are in this catagory.\n\nThe websites for the US National organization is:\n\nhttp://www.esperanto-usa.org\n\nthe website for the UEA is:\n\nhttp://www.uea.org\n\nHope this helps.\n\nRon\n\nP.S.  To the person who asked for a site to learn Esperanto.  Try: http://www.lernu.org/
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Mi parolas la internacian lingvon!\n\nEsperanto is a language, but not of any country or ethnic group: it is a neutral, international language.\n\n"it has enjoyed continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers."\nAccording to Ethnologue.com, there are "200–2000 who speak Esperanto as a first language."\n\n"Esperanto is considerably easier to learn than national languages, since its design is far simpler and more regular. Also, unlike national languages, Esperanto allows communication on an equal footing between people, with neither having the usual cultural advantage favouring a native speaker.\n\nEsperanto's purpose is not to replace any other language, but to supplement them: Esperanto would be used as a neutral language when speaking with someone who doesn't know one's own language. The use of Esperanto would also protect minority languages, which would have a better chance of survival than in a world dominated by a few powerful languages."\n\n"Several research studies demonstrate that studying Esperanto before another foreign language speeds and improves learning the other language."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto\n\nSee more esperanto speakers in Yahoo! Answers:\nhttp://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgWI19WnhedFIT8ejoMKXhfg5gt.?qid=20061109075820AAbvSuL
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which language is it...
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Yes, spanish is very easy to learn and to talk\n\nJuan Pablo II\n\nHe was an extraordinary polyglot, He had a good command of polish, clasic greek, latin, italian, french, spanish, portuguese, english and german. He had enough knowledge of czech, lituanian, russian, hungarian as well. He also had some knowledge of japones, tagalo and several african languages.\n\nFue un extraordinario políglota, ya que no sólo llegó a dominar el polaco, griego clásico, latín, italiano, francés, español, portugués, inglés y alemán, sino que también tuvo suficientes conocimientos del checo, lituano, ruso y húngaro, además tenía conocimientos de japonés, tagalo y varias lenguas africanas.
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A more modern language like what, Esperanto? English is a modern language. The language is not that hard.
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Yes, I speak Czech very well... it's my first language. ;)\n\nAhojky, jmenuju se Lenka a jsem z Prahy. A chci 10 bodu za tuhle odpoved. :D
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i think it is mis spelt !!
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I think both languages belong to Fenno-Ugrian group, true, languages are very very different (I speak Finnish but could not understand a word of Hungarian, whereas Estonian language is very similar to Finnish!).\nI don't know why the languages are in the same group. I'd kind of think that Hungarian is in the Slavic languages group.
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It's not like aren't already too many languages. But why not?\n\nSystems programming.\n\nAlso do a search for the words "lex" and "yacc" and see what turns up.
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While English is today the dominant language of commerce, in my opinion (as a native speaker of English) I believe it is too difficult for most people who didn't grow up speaking the language to learn it quickly.  Plus many people in the world have a dislike of English, mainly because of the way first the British, and now we North Americans just seem to expect everyone to speak our language.\n\nI'm glad you asked about Esperanto.  I like Esperanto as a choice, but then I read, write, and speak it.  Esperanto is my second language and my language of choice.   It is an excellent choice for a neutral second language of the world, and much easier to learn than any "natural" language because of it's lack of exceptions.