This is a very interesting post. I have heard about esperanto many years ago but I thought it was a dead language and I didn't know that there was so much behind.
How long did it take you to learn this language? Also, I guess that the radio will be in esperanto, right?
Thank you for sharing and have a lovely day!
Thank you, @delishtreats. It's good to see how people get interested in this issue when it's explained with some deepness.
Well I studied Esperanto everyday during some weeks... perhaps one month, and then I found that I really could express myself very easily in that language. To test it, I searched some open chats and began to speak with other esperantists online. I found that my level was enough to communicate fluently with everyone, at least by text (it took 4 or 5 months from that to speak it well enough, by voice).
Of course, that's just the basic stage. We keep learning and perfecting our skills in every language forever. But if someone just wants to create interesting connections throughout the world, Esperanto becomes a great easy tool for that, after some weeks (it's really a very fast progression).
Well, Radio Stelo is not exactly a radio. It's more of a periodic podcast with video editing at some platforms like Youtube. It will be mostly in Esperanto but every video will have subtitles to English and Spanish, because those are always my main targets.
It's a lot of work... but I desire to further and sustain it, because t's an important part of my philosophical and cultural work. I have suffered terrible consequences from nationalism and other political, social and religious dogmas, with all their separatist fanaticism... all their stupidity. I guess that's the reason why the motives of Zamenhof seem so important to me.
My best wishes for you too.
It's interesting to read how fast you were able to learn a language. I might go deeper into this as I'm curious about the words and grammar. I assume that the grammar is quite easy as otherwise it would take longer to practice. 4-5 months to speaking sounds very short too. Congratulations!
Do you know how big is the community speaking Esperanto?
I understand now. I can imagine that it will be a lot of work with that podcast as you want to do it in 3 languages. But if it makes you happy then you will enjoy the process :)
Sorry for the late answer. Sometimes I enter into the dark ages through a time machine, and later I come back.
Oh yes, it is a very easy grammar, created in a way that helps memorization: every substantive ends with o, every adjective with a, every adverb with e and so on, without exceptions.
Well, the issue of the number of speakers is one of the unsolved difficulties in the community. Most Esperanto-speakers are not part of any Esperanto organization, so the calculations differ widely. But the official number (of well-known speakers) is around 2 million esperantists.
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