For example, all nouns end in “o”, all adjectives end in “a”, and all adverbs end in “e”.
Esperanto … How to Learn to Say Useful Phrases in Esperanto. 4. There are other more advanced affixes of course, but they are also very standardized and straightforward.For someone who has never learned a language before, Another way that Esperanto can help you is by introducing you to a huge amount of vocabulary that will help you if you plant to learn a Romance language or a Germanic language.
You don`t need Esperanto to make international connections in the days of the internet. I hope Parol is helpful, and inspires new and interesting ideas. For verbs, present tense ends in “as”, past tense ends in “is”, and future ends in “os”. If you follow my Youtube channel then you might be aware that Now that I have (maybe irreversibly) made all Esperantists hate my guts, it`s time I acknowledge the ways that EsperantoUp above it may have seemed like I was bashing Esperanto, but really I just don`t want anyone to waste their time studying it for the wrong reasons. Though I can say that most emphatically for the Romance languages.I am quite familiar with the French language, but I started to learn Esperanto as an experiment, because I had always wondered what it would be like, and also because I wanted to try out Duolingo with a new language and I thought “Why not Esperanto?” I have no real interest in the Esperanto dream, or in participating much in the Esperanto community.
Esperanto is most useful for communicating among people of diverse nations who do not have a common mother tongue. So let`s take the root word “am” meaning From the list above you can see that whatever vocabulary you learn in Esperanto is immediately expandable because you can easily deduce the root word, and change the affixes to make different words using the same root. In fact, taken as it is from Zamenhof's original pseudonym, the word Esperanto itself means "hope" or "the hopeful one." Esperanto is a language which was created to provide a universal language that allows different countries and cultures to communicate and connect easily. So, no matter which Romance language I choose next, having an expansive Esperanto vocabulary (that I gained relatively quickly) will be a big help. Why would I learned a constructed language that only two million people in the world speak when there are other “more useful” languages I could learn? Greetings, dear Langfocus readers and random arrivals from Google search! I do, however, have a dream of one day being proficient in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese in addition to my French. Esperanto is a very straightforward language with minimal rules, very regularized patterns, and almost no exceptions. Not Completely Useless. So, I could just skip Esperanto and focus on genuine Romance languages instead, but Esperanto is so streamlined that you never get stuck trying to figure out the gender of a noun or how to conjugate a verb.
The majority of Esperanto vocabulary (meaning I don`t know exactly how Dr. Zamenhoff selected Esperanto root vocabulary, but it seems that he chose roots that would be recognizable to speakers of as many European languages as possible. I`m not an Esperantist, but I think Dr. Zamenhoff created something quite amazing.Esperanto - The World`s Favorite "Constructed Language"using little more than the Duolingo website and iPhone app, and a free Esperanto-English dictionary app. There are lots of Esperanto meetings organised each year, some (like the annual TEJO conference) especially for young people. When traveling, there are lists of people who are willing to meet you or even host you in their home. I have been so focused on the Langfocus Youtube channel and improving my video production skills that I have neglected to post here for the past several months.
The result is that you learn a core of important vocabulary that will absolutely help you if you plan to learn a Romance language, and will also help you if you plan to learn a Germanic. I also watched some Youtube videos, but basically it was 90% Duolingo.having a somewhat uncommon hobby can serve as a uniting factor and immediately break the ice between people who might otherwise never become friendsEsperanto is not a hobby for me, it`s a way to help me achieve goals that are more important to me than Esperanto. But hobby groups and organized meetups are not a bad thing, and in fact On top of the joys of belonging to a tightly-knit tribe of enthusiasts, Esperanto can also help you in your studies of other languages. So if you learn Esperanto first, it would make learning Russian, Chinese, French, whatever, easier. If they are imagining that Esperanto is a language that they can hear spoken on the street and use to strike up a conversation with someone, then I want them to know that it will never happen — unless they attend an organized meetup. And now we have yet another accent in Esperanto… a slightly robotic one, but thanks to the regular pronunciation of Esperanto, a perfectly understandable one. So, a surprisingly useful hack, even if I do say so myself.
Long time no post! Why would I learned a constructed language that only two million people in the world speak when there are other “more useful” languages I could learn?Esperanto is the closest thing to living out that childhood dream of speaking in a language that only you and your best friend know.I know I’m one among the many who thought it would be cool to communicate with my childhood friends in a language that only we could understand.Minus the fact that none of my friends speak Esperanto.Minus the fact that this constructed language required no actual linguistic creation from me.Esperanto is so easy you can supposedly be fluent by tomorrow.However, Esperanto is easy because of a few key features:When Mr. L. L. Zamenhof constructed Esperanto, his aim was “to render the study of the language so easy as to make its acquisition mere play to the learner”.Those are two words you don’t hear very often when learning languages.I take my hat off to Mr. Zamenhof who designed Esperanto to resemble those ideals.The logical and regular construction of Esperanto gets you out of the tangles of grammar and into fluency, or what feels like fluency, faster than other languages.I’ve heard around the interwebs, that learning Esperanto first makes other languages much easier to learn.This is especially true with Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, and French).My man Mr. Zamenhof borrowed heavily from the Romance and Germanic language families.This makes Esperanto a hearty, melodic concoction of two parts Romance and one part Germanic.This etymological mixture is probably the reason why Esperanto has a nice balance between sweet sounding vowels found in Romance languages and those harsher constants sound customary to Dutch, German, and English.Esperanto was created to be a neutral universal language.Albeit, no language can be neutral because of the sheer number of languages available to compile into one.Esperanto is heavily influenced by Romance and Germanic languages leaving out Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, and other language families.Where Esperanto shines is in its aim to be as inclusive and easy as possible.As an idealist and an optimist, as a lover of words and culture, the idea of a universal language that helps to preserve, not replace, already existing languages and facilitate easy communication sounds like a future I want to be a part of.