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How united are Esperantists ?

I was with the Ci Ji (慈济)) buddhist for a morning tea. We talked about the nature disastrous and moved into the Da Ai TV 大爱电视。 This prompted me to think a question of how united the Esperantists are. Many economists are puzzled how Ci Ji can build a university and a hospital. A religious body can have the wealth to have the satellite TV beaming across the Atlantic from Taiwan. As the web statistics shows that there are more than two million Esperantists. Is this amount include non income group like the babies and school going children ? Well, if I take one million Esperantists who have the income on the daily basis, there would be one million dollars if they can donate it to a fund which would look into the welfare of the Esperanto development. One million dollars a day. How much would it be a month ? You can use the fingers plus the toes to count it. That is the problem of the Esperanto Associations. We could see many self funded Esperantists to do pod-casting and online radio

Esperanto Versus Economy (EVE)

Skimming through the book titled 'China and Southeast Asia—Global Changes and Regional Challenges by 13 researchers in four parts and published by Institute pf Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. http://www.iseas.edu.sg/ One question that pop up in my mind is why there is no discussion in Education economy? Isn't education a part of economy ? It is ,once upon a time Education was the largest export of Australia. Coming back to the Esperanto versus Economy (EVE). How much have Esperantists discussing this issue in the forum ? With the GRIN report and Robert Phillipson's work on the Esperanto and the economy, it is less heard about Esperanto in the improvement of economy. There are 11 countries in ASEAN and with China, a country with large Esperanto speakers, the issue of Education is not mentioned in most forum as well as the research papers. Of course, I like to do that but again in Esperanto and how many people can read it in ASEAN, perhaps, a small number in Vietnam

Esperanto helps the autistic kids

My mind still wonders in the Learning Disabilties, a book I read last night. Can Esperanto help the kids in this area ? How much research have done in this area ? Why the government of America is not helping the esperantists to continue the research ? Well, politics, isn't it ? Parents can forward to help themselves and their kids. Can't they ? Many question pop up and I recalled a report and here to share with all of you. It looks like no one knows that we actually did have several Chicago Public Schools teaching Esperanto to 5th graders and to a number of autistic students. For the autistic kids, Esperanto introduced order into their language with simplification of grammar that confounds people trying to learn English. Those kids were better able to learn English (and communicate with their family and friends) after first getting a grasp on basic communication. For the other kids, Esperanto introduced language without the burden of grammatical speed-bumps that int

Sounds of animals in Esperanto

Having hard time to write a short fairy tale. Just wondering how to make the animal talk. Through the help from friends, got this to say: ŭa = krio de bebo, bojo de hundo huŝ, tju = fortimigo de bestoj gik gak = bleko de anaso hu = bleko de strigo kluk kluk = bleko de kokino kŭaks, brekekekeks = bleko de bufo kva, kvak = bleko de rano kvivit = birda pepado Well, I wish it has less than English thus to reduce the pain for the learners. 18.2. Ordinaraj radikoj kiel ekkriaj vortetoj http://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/ekkrioj_sonimitoj/ordinaraj_radikoj.html#i-5bp http://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/ekkrioj_sonimitoj/neoficialaj_ekkrioj.html   inoffical interjection Hope to have a complete list.

If Dr Zamenholf were to be borne in China, Esperanto would be a different today

It was unfortunate for Dr L L Zamenholf to be borne in Poland. If he were borne in China, it would be not the same scenario now for the International Language—ESPERANTO. If Esperanto cannot be the main second language in the world, but at least, it would be for the Asian countries. Now, look the the promotion and the like of the Espreanto in Poland, the birth place of Esperanto and China, a far away place of transplanting the International Language—ESPERANTO As early as 1963, China Education Department had recognised Esperanto as a foreign language in the school system. But for the Poland government is not making effort to list Esperanto as a second language in the country. Again in 1985, China Education stressed again the important of Esperanto and urged more schools and universities to conduct Esperanto courses. With Esperanto radio broadcasting for 40 years and an hour a day for 7-day a week. Which country in the world has that strong support evidence? If you have the evid

My ideal Esperanto Association setting

Many people complained that they cannot find other people to communicate after learning Esperanto. Certainly, I agreed with those complaints and sighs. I am also facing such problems. Most Esperantists conduct the activities mainly as language and neither they know that TESL group even have the Special Interest Group (SIG) in pros, short story,poetry etc. Just language only we can have so much fun in it. Of course, songs are a part of teaching and there are also singing and song groups to exchange and fine more of the songs for the classes. I have not visited any Esperanto Association. However, from the website of their activities, I could see that most of the time they do not have permanent sections as well as no youth section. The Youth Esperanto is another separate registered body. If one day Malaysia has the opportunity to form the Esperanto Association, I would like to see it is functioning in such manner: Main body youth section      education section       senior citizen s

Internet age, who needed Esperanto the most ?

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Frustrating for sometime now. It is the learning materials of Esperanto. This lead me to think of the question, is learning Esperanto for the middle class and above ?

The UEA needs to be more careful about the statistics

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A Japanese Esperantist was not believing me that there is no other Esperantist in Malaysia. I told him that there are, but I did not know where they are. He showed me this list:

English, where it would go ?

Is English the language of the world or simply a tool to spread Western imperialism? Take a look. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/10/201010209328966727.html Is English the language of the world or simply a tool to spread Western imperialism? Some people are using the term "Globish" to describe the continuing evolution of a global pidgin English. Due to the economic, cultural and military dominance of Britain and the US, English has become the global language for international business and diplomacy.

Who is the wiser leader ?

The earlier post of my communication between the Baha'i Faith as a language for should, must learn. The reply from the Baha'i Faith in USA: Thank you for contacting the Office of Communications with your additional question about the Bahá’í relationship to Esperanto. The passage you quoted below is from the book, Divine Philosophy, which is a very old source and is not reliable regarding either authentication or translation of the quotes in it. We recommend that you contact the Universal House of Justice for authentication of the passage by writing to: secretariat@bwc.org. Well, as I said earlier, I would not pursue further for whether the Baha'i followers are exhorted to learn Esperanto or it is up to the individuals to select it. However, the free book of 'Making World Peace Real. The Baha'i Faith and Esperanto' by Paul Desailly and his editor-publisher, Howard Perkins, has this part of document in page 44: A letter dated 8 June 1980 from the Universal

True Esperantists or Imperalist esperantists?

Some time ago, i read about a post of famous author in the UK expressing that it is time to learn Esperanto to avoid the children from the West to learn Chinese language. I related it to a veteran Esperantist in China. He laughed it off by saying there were many people would have the fear elements and trying to avoid Chinese language though I was still unhappy. Now this is another topic: Why Esperanto in China. http://theintelligencer.com/articles/2010/11/02/local_news/doc4cd03ddcefbe3965137431.txt During his last talk, Glossop said, “Now some would say that English is the world language even though only 5 percent of the world speaks English as their first language. Two and a half times as many speak Mandarin Chinese as their first language. Are you and your children ready to learn Chinese?” I hope Glossop would be like the Chinese Esperantist to think of Esperanto for better of communication for the world but not the imperalist thinking. Till, now, I do not see the sign that