Listen to the song
Did he catch that?
It wasn't english it was Esperanto a
language developed by this guy. Esperanto is a plan language, that means that it's
creation was not spontaneous and its growth was not fully organic, just
somebody created it and spread it. Zamenhoff considered that if everybody spoke
the same language, education, ideals, convictions, aims, would be the same too, and
all nations would be united in a common brotherhood
Well that was sweet! His goal to make it the second most spoken language in the
world. Was Zalmenhoff -aka dr. Esperanto- Ambitious? Yes!
Successful? Well that's tricky, let's look at the backstory first and we'll let you
decide. The language is only made up of 16 rules, its grammar is simple and it
borrows words from other mainstream languages, most of them from Western
Europe. It was featured in Paris in the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where
people fell in love with it and was projected as the "Language of the Future"
the language began to earn speakers along Europe Zalmenhoff was nominated
to a Nobel Peace Prize and there was an attempt to establish an Esperanto
speaking tiny territory: Amikejo. Esperanto was thriving even more, and its
creator became kind of a Rockstar, streets, an asteroid, and a genus of
licken were named after him. Even a Japanese sect "Oomoto" that encouraged
the use of Esperanto and had Zamenhof as a kind of God. World War I destroyed
the idea of Amikejo, but Esperanto was proposed as the official language of
the recently born League of Nations. However France said: EN AUCUN CAS! Then
World War two ended all of it. Hitler accused the language as a tool of zionism
and Stalin disliked it as well. Esperanto was spoken in concentration
camps and the Soviet speakers were sent to forced labour. All these events
weakened the movement for the coming years. A few years later however the
internet was born, and what a great fit for Esperanto!
If you want the story of the internet, you should check out our video about it.
So the internet created this environment where speakers could be in touch with
Esperanto every day. It also became a meeting point for the language
enthusiasts to make their own contributions. The Esperanto version of
Wikipedia has a similar amount of articles to the Turkish or Korean
version. Google, Facebook and Telegram also have Esperanto versions. there's
even a Pasaporta Servo, a free server is exclusive for Esperanto
speakers. If you google Esperanto, there are over 1.5 billion results about it.
Google Translate works with Esperanto too, then another platform was born to
help, just like Superman with earth: Duolingo! an app to learn languages. The
creators decided to add the Esperanto service to the app and many online
members of the Esperanto community got involved in the process, launching the
language course for English speakers in 2014. I will talk more about this app but
Duolingo is not sponsoring us so we'll wait for their call. Concerned about
irregular verbs or weird pronunciation? Esperanto doesn't have that either, so
they're made for each other. The app has increased the amount of Esperanto
speakers, around 1.1 million users have signed up for courses and about half of
them speak it. One fourth of them finished the whole program. it's fair to
say that the app is not enough to learn the language, so nowadays there are some
real meetings for people who want to enhance their proficiency in these
meetings. You'll often find the Esperanto flag,, where green means hope and there's
a star for each one of the five continents. Didn't we have six continents?
Nowadays Esperanto is the most widely spoken planned language in the world. Now
let's practice a little bit:
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