I don't know if this story is real or
fake but I do know that this story is
worth your time see thousands of years
ago according to religion there was
battle on a place where humanity spoke
one language and humans could understand
each other one day they decided to
challenge God so together they built a
really tall tower to reach heavens but
God was not happy so he punished them by
making them speak different languages
and when humans spoke different
languages all of a sudden they couldn't
communicate they couldn't build and they
got stuck
you might think this story is about
religion but it's not this is about
languages because they are more
dangerous than we think people like
languages bonjou hello Shalom they think
they are sexy but in reality they are
risky because I believe the more
languages we have the less we can talk
to each other this isn't just a Bible
this is real life take Papa New Guinea
for example it's a country made up of
800 tribes each with their own unique
language so this country had languages
and because of that tribes could not
communicate with each other
so they fought only after they adopted a
simple form of English called pidgin
tribes were able to talk to each other
and build a country
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this is just a real-life example of the
danger of languages naturally my friends
get offended when I say that the world
should have one language they think this
is disrespectful to other nations and to
other languages but I disagree and I'm
not the only one someone a hundred and
fifty years ago realized that languages
make us fight so instead of complaining
he went to work and invented a new
language designed to unite us all and he
called it Esperanto
this language is ten times simpler than
a normal language it takes a hundred and
fifty hours to learn Esperanto and it
takes 2,000 hours to learn German the
hope of this language is to be universal
so the whole world can speak it that's
why Esperanto was designed from the
ground up to have a simple grammar
simple words simple everything
when I read about this language I got
excited to learn it because this is
exactly what the world needs something
to unite us I am tired of going to
Thailand and not speak to the locals
because I don't speak Thai I am tired of
going to China and make zero friends
because I can't speak to anyone I am
tired of wars happening because of
language barriers if we all speak the
same language like I don't know
Esperanto or English or Chinese whatever
it is I am convinced we can build
something much bigger than the Tower of
Babel and we can reach new heights see
you next week
hey everybody thank you so much for
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