The language challenge -- facing up to reality



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A former UN and WHO translator, who is also a psychologist -- Claude Piron taught for 20 years at the Psychology Department of the University of Geneva - shares his experience of international communication and discusses the international language Esperanto.
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sorry for my ... ( 3 months ago by mtlk01)
sorry for my impreciseness ^^
I meant Mandarine Chinese, the official language
The exceptions ... ( 2 months ago by vinbelgium)
The exceptions definately do NOT take most time to master a language. Grammar is limited, vocabulary isn't.
You can't just 'learn' the exceptions. You must get used to them in order that they eventually look logical to you.
The idea seems ... ( 2 months ago by sethmaquina)
The idea seems pretty smart, but there are many more solutions that are practical. Esperanto may seem easy to Indo-European Speakers, but to someone who speaks an Asian language, it can be very difficult. Esperanto tells you to use the definite article like you do in your native language. The English 'the', the Spanish 'el/los/la/las/lo' or the German 'der/das/die/etc/' are not the same. E
Funny thing is the ... ( 2 months ago by 0stsee)
Funny thing is the accusative marker in Esperanto. Most of the major European languages lack it and still function perfectly well.
Excuse me, but ... ( 2 months ago by 0stsee)
Excuse me, but Esperanto is easy for you because you already speak Spanish.
Are you sure ... ( 2 months ago by ejtpejtp)
Are you sure Esperanto is difficult for Asians? I've met Koreans, but they are very good at Esperanto. Though, for these Koreans, Esperanto may not have similar vocabularies with the Korean language, they were able to learn Esperanto faster than English. And they're more comfortable with it than English. But the sad news is that, still most people think that English is international. Only a few knows Esperanto in Korea.
if you look at the ... ( 1 month ago by tutonline)
if you look at the truth there are also many accents in English all over the world wich are considered correct by those who use them... esperanto is not widely spoken and thus people are not interested in learning esperanto in the end. That's why you are speaking Engish in this video...
Si cette vidéo est ... ( 1 month ago by DannirLsne)
Si cette vidéo est en anglais pour faire comprendre à ceux qui ne parlent qu'anglais qu'il y a d'autres langues dans le monde ... bien moins difficiles à apprendre, et comme l'espéranto ... surtout totalement neutre.
la mienne n'était ... ( 1 month ago by tutonline)
la mienne n'était pas un question, c'était une constatation...je parle plusieurs langues et l'anglais n'est pas la premiére, mais c'est la seule que je peux employer presque partout
L'espéranto c'est . ... ( 1 month ago by DannirLsne)
L'espéranto c'est ... partout dans le monde. unn exemple: j'ai beaucoup voyagé en Chine, un peu partout dans le pays, avec l'espéranto ... ceci directement reçu chez l'habitant, c'était extra-ordinaire. Je n'oublierai jamais. Les chinois ne parlent pratiquement pas l'anglais, donc l'hôtel INTERCONTINENTAL? Dommage ...
The fine story ... ( 1 month ago by NI1954)
The fine story about Esperanto
It is aproximatedly ... ( 1 month ago by Caroliano)
It is aproximatedly the double of the effort to an asian learn esperanto. But it is the same for english. Therefore, the double of 120 hours is much better than the double of 1000 hours. It is not nearly that bad.
I think learning ... ( 1 month ago by ejtpejtp)
I think learning Esperanto is really not a bad idea for language enthusiasts or "hobbyists." It doesn't need much effort. And one can meet interesting people through it. Well, for me, that's the case. But for people who likes looking at the bad side, then it might not really work.
Living in France I ... ( 1 month ago by seniorteam)
Living in France I have noticed that a lot of people here are not interested in speaking another language at all. Leaving the dictionary on the moon by offering it to NASA as handy tool for the aliens will create a PR event. Make a great rap in esperanto. I now (with all respect) see only old people talking in esperanto. Lots of arguments sound solid but the youth has the future so use youth related elements to vitalise the language. Refresh and good luck.
you speak English ... ( 1 month ago by sodukube1)
you speak English very well. I started learning esperanto at the end of 7th grade and stopped learning it over the summer so I only speak a little bit, but hopefully I will learn it during my free time at school.
I agree with almost ... ( 1 month ago by walking0naked)
I agree with almost all of this. I only started learning Esperanto recently, and I'm already comfortable with most of the language structure.
I learned two languages in school - French and German, until I was sixteen and eighteen, but I never lost my fear of speaking those languages to native speakers, even after living in Germany.
With Esperanto, I can talk to people who have no other language in common with me, and I can talk to people from completely different cultures, something I enjoy.
Cxu vi povas ... ( 1 month ago by heituzi)
Cxu vi povas reskribi esperante? Mi tre volas scii vian kompletan sencon. Dankon!
I'm not old and I ... ( 1 month ago by heituzi)
I'm not old and I speak it. I was just at an event, and young people dominated it. You can search SES - that's the program I went to. Most of us were in our 20's or 30's. And how do you explain all the Esperanto youth congresses and meetings going on all year? I'm sorry but your comment seems uninformed.
i do not quite see ... ( 1 month ago by vidaregaaende)
i do not quite see the advantage of esperanto...
much of this here is nonsense...
for common people ... ( 1 month ago by vidaregaaende)
for common people at least...
The advantage of ... ( 3 weeks ago by inkstersco)
The advantage of Esperanto is whatever is the advantage of interlingual communication.
Array ( 1 week ago by mooglepoo)
Carolliano:
But you must consider how difficult Asian languages are to learn for Europeans, as well, especially the writing system. I am capable in English, Japanese, and Esperanto, and I can honestly say that Japanese was the most difficult to learn, simply because of the amount of kanji. I have spent more than 1000 hours studying that language, and it is still not as good as my Esperanto, which I have been studying for about a year now.
Yeah, I know that. ... ( 1 week ago by Caroliano)
Yeah, I know that. I've studied some 800 hours of japanese, and besides the kanjis, it also have many "tricks" on the usage of certain words, as any national language do, and the politeness degrees, that is also dificult to use.
I'm tempted to learn korean. At least the writing system will not be an big problem.
Any way, if esperanto is to be adopted, we don't really need to consider how difficult Asian languages are.
*In Perfect British ... ( 4 days ago by orangelixir)
*In Perfect British English* - I hope you'll be indulgent as I cannot articulate correctly all that I wish to say as eloquently as I would like. - Hahaha He speaks amazing English. Maybe if you listen for a while you can tell he might be foreign.



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