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Język: English
bartlett22183 (Pokaż profil) 16 kwietnia 2015, 18:21:52
Yes, English is the most widespread international auxiliary language (just not a constructed one) to date in world history, but even as a loving native speaker I do not think it is a good choice. It is a flexible, powerful one, but it is truly difficult. Much of its hegemony comes from the British Empire and the rise of US dominance. That does not make it suitable as such. I myself strongly support the ideal of a more neutral, more consistent and therefore, presumably easier, less culturally bound constructed IAL, provided it is adequate to all the needs of modern life. Esperanto is, in my opinion, with Interlingua a possibility.
ustra (Pokaż profil) 16 kwietnia 2015, 18:56:25
Kirilo81:According to Eurostat, besides the 13% English native speakers in the EU only 8% of the population speak English at a high level. Making English the only official language of the EU would mean to exclude 79% of its inhabitants from social and political participation...On the other hand when you consider that those who rule the people amount to even less than 1%, wouldn't a language like Volapük for them more accurately reflect the actual ratio?
Let them speak in their very own funny language about their funny money, oppression and wars while we live our lifes in peace and freedom and, of course, communicate in Esperanto!
Christa627 (Pokaż profil) 16 kwietnia 2015, 21:03:01
Tempodivalse:I've experienced the same thing! And sometimes I'm frustrated with not being able to say exactly what I mean to say, in English, when it is perfectly clear in my mind, in Esperanto. But I can't just say it in Esperanto because the person I'm talking to doesn't understand itrobbkvasnak:I don't mean to offend anyone, but true native fluency with highly fluent accuracy is extremely rare.Seconded! I think even many native speakers of English would fall short of this standard.
I have sometimes even discovered that it is easier for me to express the desired nuance of meaning in Esperanto than in English (or Russian). Surely this would normally be impossible for a non-native speaker of any other language ...
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se (Pokaż profil) 17 kwietnia 2015, 03:02:43
Indonesia is trying to establish the strength of Indonesian language in ASEAN as the Asean Community will be commenced this coming December. 600 million people in ASEAN, just imagine the music, books, etc will go to Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia will begin the new ruling ,all foreign workers, expats as well, must learn Bahasa Indonesia, at least 300 hours. Learning Bahasa Indonesia is easier than English, needs 900 hours but English needs 3200 hours. Imagine the full set of irregular verbs, more than a thousand in total is already 10,000 words in Esperanto.
Go to MESGo page and read the information about the development of English in used. The links in 0 parts.
Though China will use the new policy in English language testing but it is unlike Indonesia, drop English language at all. China will not be able to drop English like Indonesia as the corruption is high. Bad language policy planners are in the government.
More people in the world are aware of the mother tongue right in the internet age and are fighting for it. Will English be their mother tongues in ASEAN ? Yes, in Singapore and the Philippines. But the Filipinos are fighting to use Tagalog,only Singapore, which is a tiny island has to depend on USA<
The hours of learning English in Wiki is erased.
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Alkanadi (Pokaż profil) 19 kwietnia 2015, 08:25:49
ustra (Pokaż profil) 19 kwietnia 2015, 09:10:04
Alkanadi:I think that all European languages should be represented in an organization that promotes European unity.Then you certainly don't mean the EU or any other political institution as they always divide the people...
KStef (Pokaż profil) 19 kwietnia 2015, 10:04:17
I am Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. Becouse most of teenagers speak English - we use English to communication. A lot of them says "he have", "he don't speak English" etc. That makes language more ulgy if you know what i mean.
So as you can see, English should be one of official langueges, but not one and only one.
Sorry for mistakes. I am learning English at B1 level.
se (Pokaż profil) 19 kwietnia 2015, 10:46:39
KStef:(More languages - more documents - more money to spend).Well said, it is similar to the UN and other related UN org, which have to translate the similar piece of work into 6 so called official languages, more often than not, only two are using, English and French.
This resulted in more paper and trees are being cut down. The environment activists never realise that and the UEA representatives to UN and UNESCO should speak in Esperanto but they failed to do so. The language policy in the UN, representative does not necessary to speak in the 6 official languages. Search India PM in UN web TV to see what language he used last year.
Besides, many NGOs did not respect the UNESCO resolutions 1985. This partly should be shouldered by UEA and TEJO, of course, the national eo association too for not informing, encouraging them to respect the resolutions.
Why UEA only celebrate the 1954 resolutions 60 years last year but the 50 years was ignored ?
Too many problem in the public relations in UEA, TEJO and national eo associations.
dbob (Pokaż profil) 22 maja 2015, 22:02:09
I’ve also seen a couple of comments by some users of the lernu-forum, like Robb Kvasnak and Orthohawk.