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Few articles about Esperanto in the past and what is lay in the future ... The Esperanto-speaking Community Flirts with Ethnicism http://home.arcor.de/gmickle/skk/92flirto_en.html A Symbiosis of Esperantism and Language Nationalism? http://home.arcor.de/gmickle/skk/92durand_en.html The "Intrinsic Ideas" of Esperanto http://home.arcor.de/gmickle/skk/92inid_en.html Can Esperanto Save "Cultural Diversity"? http://home.arcor.de/gmickle/skk/92kuldiv_en.html Zamenhof at Congress of Races, 1911 http://utopia-vs-reality.blogspot.com/2010/12/zamenhof-at-congress-of-races-1911.html

Love this topic in lernu.net -- The imprecision of English Should we consider the flaw of the language? Love this comment: You do not have to be precise. But translators do! Especially when they are translating very important documents - and they often encounter such ambiguities in English texts, and English is supposed to be used internationally in politics, economy and so on. Think of it. Yes, life of a translator is not easy. http://en.lernu.net/komunikado/forumo/temo.php?t=7836 Take a good laugh http://www.gray-area.org/Research/Ambig/

It is time again to say this, but this year it is something new for me: Feliĉan kristnaskon kaj Novjaron ! Hope is better for everyone in the coming year.

Interesting to know that the patnership between Panama and China has gone stronger by reading BBC news:

If Dr Zamenhof was a rich man, we have no Esperanto now. “If I had not been a Jew from the ghetto,” Zamenhof wrote in a letter in 1905, “the idea of uniting humanity either would never have entered my head or it would never have gripped me so tenaciously throughout my entire life.” This is what experince tells us what is the cause of change. I certainly agreed on this. Speakers of Esperanto hope that a common language will reduce conflict among neighbors. By conversing in what they describe as “the most widely-spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world,” they trust the world will be better off. http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/134095/   But I think otherwise. Will talk about it when my mind is more composed. Esperanto is certainly not only solving confilicts but has more on economy as well as equality.

I wonder if he knows that Malaysia will soon be another country to form the Esperanto Association, what would he say about Esperanto.

I read the post of KS Seminario is over in Vietnam. Some of the participants were very happy. Well done Vietnam Esperantists. We are waiting for the bigger event in 2012.

I am glad to find the Chinese Buddhism sector is doing good in the Esperanto version. Thanks must go to the Rev Miao Hui, of course they say it as Miao Hui fashi. Fashi ( 法师 ) is a person who knows the teaching of the religion.

I was shocked to get invited by a group of 'highly active' Esperantists to ask for a country to be set up. I know how they love Esperanto but they have to understand that Esperanto is a International Auxiliary Language (IAL).

Having lunch with friends and they asked a very good question. 'How creative are Esperantists ?' 'Why? There are creative Esperantists.' 'But I saw the pages that you sent to me did not have the logo for other Esperantists to help to promote the events.' The pages she meant are the Esperanto Associations websites. Yes, I have to admit that. But on the other hand, I do think there are also Esperantists who are working in the Public Relationships sector and even in the advertisement and promotion sectors. As I did read about a post of a blogger about the Milo and Esperanto. What I would like to suggest is the organiser of the UK could provide some java script for other bloggers to link to their blogs, facebook and twitter. This would enable the awareness of Esperanto for the people. This blog page as far as is concerned would not be writing in Esperanto because it is a part of the work of study. Therefore, the logo and java script that I have linked woul...

Delighted to read Mr Soros at the event but still hoped to see him do something for the Esperanto community.

Nu, mi deziras al cxiuj Felicxan Esperanto-Tago. Life is going on and hope more Esperantists would able to see the economy point of view that one needs 200 hours to learn Esperanto and promote it by using the cents and dollars. Of course, there are many political issues that needed tactful dealing. This is a happy day, thus less 'fire' is on here. :) 世界语日快乐。国际语日快乐。 Selamat Hari Bahasa Esperanto google translator work: Happy วัน ภาษา ต่างประเทศ Happy Esperanto Dag Happy Internasionale Taal Dag Happy Day Esperanto Happy Day Ngôn ngữ quốc tế Siku ya furaha Kiesperanto Furaha ya Kimataifa ya Lugha ya Siku खुश एस्पेरांतो दिवस खुश अंतर्राष्ट्रीय भाषा दिवस 해피 에스페란토 주 해피 국제 어학 주 ハッピー エスペラント 日 幸せな 国際化対応言語 日   مبارک ايسپرانٹو

Attending a seminar in Kuala Lumpur and it ended up with an argument with the speaker, who is the PH D holder of Hong Kong University. He mentioned Robert Philipson and Grin but did not find a solution for the orgainiser or rather for the people of Malaysia. The seminar is themed 'Linguistic Right in a Multilingual Society' 多元社会的语言人权 . During the Q and A session, I questioned him why he did not mention the Esperanto. Any one who search Robert Philipson and Grin would entail the Esperanto as both, especially Grin has the Economy proposal for the European Union. What angered me was his reply as : 'I knew the Esperanto language but it is not a nature language.' Supposingly, he is a follower of Noam Chomsky, Esperanto is not a language, Esperanto estas ne lingvo. At this moment of time, the linguists in the world who are still arguing between nature and man-make language is an absurd idea. Which language in the world is not first man-make ? The Latin alphabet and Th...

At least, China esperantists are doing something. Though still very much conservative, circle round the language instead of more areas. I do not know what the next activities are installed for the esperanto learners in China. Translation is all the time the favour of Chinese, whatever language they learn, there would be some sort of translation competition. Of course, translation is vital. But, for me, personally, I like creative writing. http://www.esperanto.cn/list.php?fid=9   http://www.esperanto.cn/ What about other countries in the world ? Any activities beside the renkonti, meeting for tea or coffee ?

I did not who are the native speakers of Latin. At least, there are few native speakers of Esperanto. However, I found this site saying there is no native speaker of Latin but they learn it because of  some reasons. http://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-living-latin.html They can accept Latin but not Esperanto of which the nostagia feeling or of  pressure from the management. There are reports that universities have Latin course but no Esperanto course. But I am very glad at least China has formed the Esperantists Merchant League 世界语商人会。 http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/169391857.html?push=ql http://hi.baidu.com/xmesperantoasocio/blog/item/f44bd210eab1acf2c2ce7916.html

This is the question that many friends are asking, “ How are the Esperantists going to do the distance learning ? Are they able to developed the software for the course if you are going to set up the Esperanto higher learning institutions, of which, the medium of instruction is in Esperanto.”

I was also once and in fact many times being fooled into the discussion and doubt the native speaker status. The native speakers of Esperanto, why care for that absurd question ?

Tiring of the local press, what i mean is the Malaysian newspapers, online or street edition. I tried many times and this time, at least a small response article is publised in another online Chinese news portal in Malaysia. Competition is great and how long will these online news portal surviving ? Let us Esperantists decide. If we could support them and they can survive and i think is also good for us to press them for Esperanto version. Though it looks like you scratch my back and i scratch yours, but this is the real world, and this words better. There are few  Malaysian online news portal, no street edition, in short, Esperantists throughout the world can accees to it as long as you are accessed to internet. 1. Malaysiakini.com --four languages, did publish a Chinese artilce about esperanto 2. Merdekareview.com --major language is Chinese and English and Malay are at a minor part 3. Malaysiatoday.com -- bilingual, English and Malay There are more online news por...

Many people carried the report of Renato Corsetti, the ex President of UEA in the Ondo . It is a little sad to read it ( my Esperanto is not that proficient at this moment of time) but I think the UEA and other Esperantists have to THINK out of the box. It is the high school examination time in Malaysia, in fact, just completed. There are thousands of leavers now and many would probably be the labourer in the human resource field. I do not look down on labourer but even be a labourer, should be a knowledge-wise labourer. I still think of the suggestion of a blogger who strongly and highlighted the plight of the high school leavers in Malaysia, I presume elsewhere too like in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia etc. If UEA can think out of the box, it would not be too much worries even though the membership has dwindled. The decline in the membership does not reflect the less Esperantists. May I have some suggestions for the UEA besides again urging the Esperantists or San Marino Univ...

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...

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...

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-bum...

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.

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...

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 sectio...

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 ?

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:

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.

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...

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 ...

How much efforts are being done in pushing the Esperanto in the European union ? Got this piece of work from: http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t12270-15.htm ENGLISH IS BEING RESISTED NOT JUST BY THE FRENCH SPEAKERS BUT ALSO BY GERMAN, DUTCH, AND SWEDISH SPEAKERS. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS LINK AND FIND OUT THAT ENGLISH IS NOT REALLY THE ALMIGHTY LANGUAGE AS WHAT OTHER\S THOUGHT! *********************************************************** PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL DIFFICULTIES FOR NGO ACTION FOR LANGUAGE EQUALITY IN A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE David Ferguson Secretary General, European Esperanto Union Delegate of the World Esperanto-Association INTRODUCTION World economic and social interaction favours the use of the English language as a medium of communication in spheres of life that were previously the domain of other "national" languages. However, due to geographical, cultural and linguistic dispersion merely informing participants about language change, and associ...

I was surprised that this international publication would have such a title in its 2004, Feb 26 issue titled: English in Decline as a First Language, Study Says Well, all people know the colonial days are gone and things would be settled. Soon, English is just like Malay, a language in a corner of the world. Read the sub-headline: Now, what is your view on this? Don't the big publication like NatGeo knows that there is Esperanto ? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0226_040226_language.html No World Language

I was looking for my research contents and came the notion why the Globish or the global English. Communication can be properly done with Esperanto instead of few English words for surviving. Now the story here happened in China. If the manager of this company did not speak Esperanto, I did not think he could get the contract of the wine from the France counterpart. Though the report said that both the Chinese and Italian business were speaking English at the beginning and they felt nothing much till they knew their counterparts speak Esperanto and switched to the international language, Esperanto and they both felt so at home for discussion. No translator needed. How much better the Chinese and Italian are good at English ? This is the trend now in China. China businessmen speak Esperanto and they even have the 4 th Esperanto Commerce Annual Meeting which was held in September in Hunai, 2010. Here is to caution all businessmen in the world, you don't have to learn English ...

Just wondering how the story will go and in fact, is in the market. Do you like to pick it up and read ? Joseph Skibell's recently released third novel, A Curable Romantic , is hard to define. On the one hand, its premise couldn't be simpler: Boy falls in love. On the other hand, it's a complex narrative that stretches from Austria in the late 19th century to the Warsaw Ghetto. Not to mention it tackles male menstruation, demonic possessions, Jewish mysticism, and the international language known as Esperanto. Oh yeah, and the book also features a cocaine sniffing Dr. Sigmund Freud. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benyamin-cohen/an-interview-with-novelis_b_767151.html?ir=Religion

Interesting article of self-confession but sad to know that this trend of giving up mother tongue language in Malaysia is nothing new.

Well, if one is involving in searching for information about Esperanto, the commercial values and religion uses of Esperanto, certainly one will bound in many statements: Usually, it is more educated speakers of English who possess the most innate bias against Esperanto, doubting that an “artificial” language of “no substance’ or cultural content could promise any advantage to potential learners. Nevertheless, there is much evidence that six or seven years of English instruction in many countries have produced very meager results in comparison with the enormous efforts, time and expense invested. The percentage of the world’s population that speaks English as a first language is no greater today than it was in 1900 (around 10%). Although there are many speakers of English as a second language today, they still represent a tiny minority of those who have spent many frustrating years of study and are unable to communicate effectively beyond the level of making...

Many feel that investing in language is worth. Of course, this is true since the old China days. Language comes with knowledge but for whom are eligible is a question to think and answer should be sorted out especially for the poor countries. So this text is long but worth your time to ponder: The promulgation of English as the world’s “lingua franca” is impractical and linguistically undemocratic. I say this as a native English speaker! Impractical because communication should be for all and not only for an educational or political elite. That is how English is used internationally at the moment. Undemocratic because minority languages are under attack worldwide due to the encroachment of majority ethnic languages. Even Mandarin Chinese is attempting to dominate as well. The long-term solution must be found and a non-national language, which places all ethnic languages on an equal footing is essential. As a native English speaker, my vote is for Esperanto http://josecarill...

Interesting to think about it: The relative lack of interest has spawned some heated debate about what, exactly, Esperanto is supposed to be doing. "The idea was to make it the second language," says Brozovsky, who speaks Esperanto about half the time. "That goal hasn't disappeared." But the main discussion in the post-Sept. 11 world is about how to stress the point that Esperanto isn't just a nifty little utopian concept but a diplomatic necessity. "After Sept. 11, a lot was written about Esperanto and terrorism," says Brozovsky. "When somebody blows himself up, he's trying to say something, and he's blowing himself up because he doesn't feel like he's being heard and understood. The U.S. needs to be more willing to listen, and people in the U.S. need to be more understanding. Esperanto can be useful for that." http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-04-03/news/slow-movement/

On and off, I heard about this: Eurpean council is going to add Esperanto as a conference language. But, I still did not have much information on this for sometime. Most articles are of suggesting and will the council members agree? Which language for Europe? Daniele Archibugi , 10 June 2009 It is no easy task, even for the European Parliament, to find translators from Finnish to Greek, or from Portuguese to Bulgarian. However, Eurocracy is ingenious, and to reduce costs it uses double translation: those who speak less widely known languages are first translated into the principal languages (English, French or German) and then retranslated into all the other less common languages. One wonders how much the substance of the MPs speeches is altered by the second or third translation. http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/which-language-for-europe Yes, I agreed that the translation will lose some parts of the meaning if you get the unprofessional translator. I personally had t...

A friend told me he heard about this word long before I know it. I was surprised. 'Nothing much," he said. " All the things that we feel not understand, we said, you are talking Esperanto." Well, now, the talking Greek has changed to talking Esperanto. This article is even better used of Esperanto Office Space: In Search of its Esperanto http://www.officebroker.com/blog/2010/09/28/Office+Space%3A+In+Search+of+its+Esperanto_FTOC2809201047498N/

Well, this article has get all esperantists to think about.

Well, nice to read this page of writing. Why learn Esperanto and be young, my interpretation is Esperanto is an easy to learn language and less pressure compared to other languages. Thus it reduces the stress. Another discovery, perhaps. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/2010/10/24/20101024oz1024.html

From the page of Esperanto Scout, I realised that the Esperantistis needed some management course. Despite the volunteering basis, the whole management needs some latest management skills. Perhaps, all scout troups should have such training too. This would help to provide better management skills in future. The page of representative shows 29 countries and the page has only 15 languages. What puzzle me is that Japan and Korea have no one to translate the page into Japanese and Korea despite I posted it many times in the yahoo forum and facebook as well. Now, the question is the communication problem or the ignorance of the esperantists ? The President of  Universal Esperanto Association is from India and how much the development of Esperanto in his country remain the doubts. I need more info for this. From the page, the represent is from Karnataka, which is in the southern of India and they speak and write another language. But, there is no translation for the Indian langu...

I got it from a facebook report :

I was looking for a page that houses all the Esperanto events. Is there one ? Thinking of UEA, the world body page would be the best to look for but alas, it was just a disappointment. Well, after twittering with a twitter @esperanton, I found there is a hope in doing it and at the same time, wish that all heads of Esperanto Association will be more aware of the lack of communication means for a Esperanto speakers. I am keeping my fingers crossed as @esperanton said s/he would do it. There are so many free forum pages that someone who is more access to internet can apply and create an account. Thus, invite the Esperanto speakers from all corners of the world to provide the latest information on Esperanto developments, events, restaurant, drama performance, singing contest etc.. You don't have to work alone. Get the Esperanto speakers to be moderators. If Esperanto speakers are of more united, the development of Esperanto is faster. Time, opportunities of business also can he...

This is the first time of Malaysian internet portal which published the Esperanto article from the reader.

Just wondering the Universal House of Justice in America has the correct interpretation of the thought of the leader. At the earlier post , i found the text, and what kind of text is that ? I am not a follower of Bahai Faith and has no intention to undermind the organisation. However, just trying to find more infomation for the reason why Esperanto is not able to be known by the people, to the least, Malaysian, which according to the webiste, there are 1 % of the total population of Malaysia are Bahai Faith followers. In short, there would be at least 200,000 peopl in Malaysia speaking Esperanto. I can meet at list ONE on the busy street of Kuala Lumpur . Below is the text i recived from the USA Bahai Faith Center: > Thank you for contacting the Baha'i Office of Communications with your  inquiry. While there has not been a direct exhortation from the Universal House of Justice for Baha'is to learn Esperanto , the Baha'i attitude toward Esperanto has always been...

The Baha'i Faith has a strong relationship with Esperanto, why Malaysian Baha'i groups is not being much inform of this ? The forum info: Praise be to God, that Dr. Zamenhof has constructed the Esperanto language. It has all the potential qualities of universal adoption. All of us must be grateful and thankful to him for his noble effort, for in this matter he has served his fellow-man well. He has done a service which will bestow divine benefits on all peoples. With untiring effort and self-sacrifice on the part of its devotees it holds a promise of universal acceptance. Therefore every one of us must study this language and make every effort to spread it, so that each day it may receive a wider recognition, be accepted by all nations and governments of the world and become a part of the curriculum of all the public schools. I hope that the business of the future international conferences and congresses will be carried on in Esperanto. In the coming ages, two language...

Registered as a PH D student in UTAR and will be travelling through many unknowns.