Esperanto Demonstration (Photo credit: Lennon Ying-Dah Wong)
I have a confession to make. I haven’t been completely honest with everyone. It wasn’t an out right lie, more like an omission. It’s not something I omitted with the intention to mislead. In fact, it was never supposed to be apart of the blog. Then the blog evolved into more than I thought it ever would be and this omission has stuck out, for me at least, like a sore thumb. I could have continued on and non would be the wiser, but I just don’t work that way. So I am opening up and being honest. What is this huge omission? Spanish is not the first language I have tried to learn since learning Thai, Esperanto is.
Esperanto estas lingvo por la tuta mondo
(Esperanto is a language for the whole world.)
I found Esperanto on the internet when I was learning about constructed languages. Being the largest and most successful constructed language, it came up often. I started learning it and got to a lower intermediate level at my best. I joined Esperanto-USA and sometimes I would chat online. I even became a volunteer tutor at Lernu.net.
The problem is that my motivation and skills in learning a language on my own, without living in an immersed environment, were very small. To be honest, trying to explain it to other people became tiring well. I ultimately gave up actively participating in the Esperanto world, though the desire to learn another language stayed with me and I eventually started this blog because of it.
What do I do?
Now that you know, what do I do. Should I continue to treat Esperanto as a red-headed step child and ignore it? Or should I add it to my list of languages and actively pursue it? I don’t know the answer, but I was hoing to get advice from all those who read this blog. What should I do? Send me a message or send me some your ideas in the comments below. Thanks for helping!
Daǔrigu la lernadon de Esperanto! Oni neniam povas lasi sian unuan amon.
Dankon por la kuragxigo! Multaj personoj ne kromprenas kiam placxas al mi esperanto. Versxajne komprenos kiel lerni esperanton pli bone. Dankon denove.
Chan may phut phasa thai.
Which language do you speak?
I’m a polyglot but I’ve studied almost all of them. You name it, I’ve studied it. I have languages that I retain more, like Esperanto, German Spanish and Russian. I’ve studied Chinese for years, but my love has always been Native American and African languages such as Cherokee, Tlingit and Igbo and Yoruba!
Navajo always seemed interesting to me especially since I read about the code speakers of world war 2. Mandarin is high on my list and I do want to learn German and French, not to mention the rest of the romance languages.
After I learned 1Romance language, I got bored with the other ones. Kind of like once you learn Thai, do you want to learn Lao?
I tried, I couldn’t get myself to do much, I may come back to it one day. But there are many more languages higher on my list right now.