2006-08-04 11:07:12 · 8 answers · asked by yogi bear 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
i bet some really clever people will tell me that it's an international language
2006-08-04 11:07:57 · update #1
We need an "International auxiliary language" like esperanto.
It would save the EU at least € 25 billion annually!
http://lingvo.org/grin/GRIN_en.pdf
"Several research studies demonstrate that studying Esperanto before another foreign language speeds and improves learning the other language."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
Why not english as the International Language? This seems a reasonable question, but
* English is by no means easy to master it is, generation after generation, the international language of a certain elite
* any nationally dominant language puts non-native speakers (in this case 90% of the world population) in an unfavourable position
* English - no matter how widespread still only reflects one specific type of culture, which may be upsetting to some
* in stress situations, one tends to lose ones ability to speak an irregular foreign language
* the above also applies to all other big languages as French, Spanish or Chinese.
2006-08-04 23:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by Fajro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an Esparanto speaker myself but I have a good friend that is. She tells me that the language is very much alive and kicking and she often has conversations through Skype to many friends around the world whose common language is Esparanton.
As for its uses - I guess it helps to cross the "language barrier". Maybe if more people spoke it we would be able to communicate better with our fellow human beings!
2006-08-04 11:33:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jay Jay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG, yes. I have 'acquaintances' that are part of an Esperanto group! They meet regularly, take holidays to meet other groups and heaven knows what else....and they ALL talk nothing but Esperanto when together.
There are 28,200,000 results for Esperanto in a yahoo search and 159,000,000 in a google search.....I know a heck of a lot will be the same result, but some MUST be different.
So I would say; yes, Esperanto has found a lasting use...........it keeps these weirdos out of our 'haro' and in 'ilia own angulo de la mondo'.
The only way for ANY language to truly become a 'global' is for it to be taught in schools at the earliest opportunity.......so English it is then!
2006-08-04 11:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the idea failed...the three languages in most common use are English, Chinese and Spanish....more people speak English in China than there are people in America!
2006-08-04 11:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no esperanto was a failure .it never took of ,the best and most used and far more practical international language is English
2006-08-04 11:11:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I use it to chat with some friends. For me it has a use. And that's what a language is for.
2006-08-04 20:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by kamelåså 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More as a butt of jokes and not much more beyond that.
Some folks don't even know what it is or what it does.
For them, it could be some drink at Starbucks.
2006-08-04 11:11:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only in Red Dwarf.
2006-08-04 11:11:01 · answer #8 · answered by sephjnr1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋