vekiĝu al la realo

It is not easy to get the old concept away and take in the new concept.

Why Not Choose an Easy Language as a First Foreign Language? By Nicole Else I do think that learning any foreign language has many benefits and therefore should be encouraged. It even helps English literacy as students who know a foreign language can often analyse English much better than other students. Learning foreign languages certainly opens the mind, helps to understand other cultures, etc. Lots of different languages are spoken in the world, so which ones should we teach? I don’t think we should teach only the languages most widely spoken.

The birthday of the late Dr Zamenholf is almost over in my country. But the western part of the global is just beginning. I would like to say my wish on this day.

From the page, do you think his English is good enough ? http://www.darrenmeng.webs.com/ The world over still very much depend on translation but not willing to learn Esperanto, especially the politicians who have spent too much money of the tax payers. Will the tax payers think of the waste from the politicians ?

It is the time for all the Esperanto Association in the world to consider this question. Should Esperanto need promotion advertisements ? It is not one or two high authority persons to decide. The impact of advertisement should thoroughly be studied.

The world economy is going from good to bad, not all countries are suffering from the bad effects though. However, the European financial crisis captured many attentions not only I did  but also others as well. I do not know what is the language policy in the European education system. But I could only speak from my part of the world and especially the Malaysian experince.

    Many a time, I am facing such question: "Why never see your Esperanto having advertisement for travelling ?"

Reading this site, it makes sad. Can the Esperanto world, Esperantujo povas fari ion ? http://www.acu.ac.uk/study_in_the_commonwealth/study

I have said it many times and again to say it again.

To how far the strength of Esperanto and Esperantists. I don't know but certainly it is something which should be done before it is too late

Loyarburok is the only Malaysia online portal which does not discriminate Esperanto. They even consider to publish the Esperanto but unfortunately, I could not help to find the translator. If any of Esperantists are willing to help to translate the articles into Esperanto, they might start a page of Esperanto Loyarburok. They know that now its pages are read far into the Latin America when my articles about Esperanto was published. This is my first article which appeared on the portal. Loyarburok is also the only portal which is selected to take part in the world blogger conference in Indonesia next month. I wish them all the best. http://www.loyarburok.com

Every year, USA saves 16 billion dollars, because its expenditure on the teaching of other languages is only symbolic. This figure represents between 1/3 and 1/2 of its budget for research and education, the basis for scientific, technological and military development, to which other countries learning or practising English contribute indirectly.

The Malaysia free trade agreement with America is going on for many years. It is only can delay it but not ablet to stop it completely. This agreement would come in the package of film screening in the TV stations. Many parents are happy about it as there would be more English movies, American movies to be more accurate. But who cares ? As long as it is English, whether they can understand or not will be issue of the later days. http://www.ftamalaysia.org/ Times and again, I am paled down to the lifeless colour on my face. If this package is successful, Malaysia would no way have the chance to teach Esperanto despite how much I work to write for Loyarburok .

Clues on Esperanto's global future are likely to emerge in June at the Esperanto international convention, appropriately planned for a revolutionary, counter-thinking place ---- Cuba. I read with interest of this passage . In face I am waiting for more relolution of Esperanto. As the leaders of most Esperanto associations are academicians or professionals, they don't really have time to do more promoting job unless they are going full time to promote Esperanto in their respective country. In my blog posts, I did say a lot. There are urgency to beat the time to get Esperanto being recognised by some countries to protect the mother tongue education. One of the country is Malaysia, which is struggling to get the human right to let the different tribals to have their mother tongue education. The country is now making English a pass in the high school before entry to universities and also sitting for the MUET, almost a repeat of the high school English language test. With ...

I was commenting on a blog post of a senior Esperantist. I urged him to set the rules for all the workers to learn Esperanto and use Esperanto in the factory. But his reply was that the management staff don't speak Esperanto, even from his own country and do not like to learn Esperanto too. Yes, I have talk much about the Green Star Money, Verda Stela Mono.

The Asian Esperantists have to consider publish magazines in Asia regions especially in Asean for low cost so that more low income groups can afford to learn Esperanto. 

I was a little sad that I could not find the history of the activity of Esperanto in Malaysia. But I found out that Thailand started 60 years ago.

I am not a techinical expect, but I found this report and wish it would be that IBM was using Esperanto to do the programming. Hope that someone can enlightened me on this. To recap, Esperanto is a methodology that incrementally transforms early-era J2EE applications to SOA. In the case of WebSphere Commerce, the release to fulfillment process from WebSphere Commerce is externalized to the SOA foundation tooling. This article discusses the structure and flow of the Esperanto methodology. Esperanto covers how to: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0611_mohan/0611_mohan.html

I have high respects for her. What a beautiful woman she is. She dares to say what the English language is just as many other British do to save the dying languages on earth. Sadly, there are so many Malaysians who are still believing English is the best language. For many, they traded their mother tongue for English, an Imperialism language as quoted by Dr Robert Phillipson. They still don't realise the missing of their mother tongue language and culture but to embrass the English life style of living. Hope more Esperantists could tell Malaysians when they meet about Esperanto, Internacia lingvo. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eo/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english.html

To repost this article is aimed for those who cannot read English well and they can use the translator programme which is attached on the main page to read it in native language or the possible best language available from the translator. The French delegate, senator Reynald, personally sympathetic towards Esperanto, but the instructions of his government were completely contrary.

Gratuloj al KER kaj UEA por fari tutmondo skriba ekzemeno . I was overjoyed to learn this Esperanto World Wide Written Test. It is a very important step for us, especially in the ASEAN countries. Only one country out of the ten member countries has the Esperanto Association and that is Vietnam.

I was a little upset that when I read the page. There are many languages on the page, even Bangla and Indonesia languages are there. But the active Esperanto is not there ... I could not hold my sadness, of course, in the rainny morning.

There are these professionals who have the authorities to convince people in the past, but with the internet, their professional knowledge is quickily shortened to nothing. The best thing is not to sign any trade pact with the English countries, thus, reducing the purchasing of their English materials like books and films.

Tre ŝatas ĉi paĝo.

The Times of India reported: AHMEDABAD: Does India have a national language? No, says the Gujarat High Court. The court also observed that in India, a majority of people have accepted Hindi as a national language and many speak Hindi and write in Devanagari script, but it's not officially the national language.

That is what I am not feeling comfortable with the number of speakers when the news paper report about the speakers of Esperanto. Esperanto is recognised by UNESCO in 1954 as an auxilary language thus it would be hardly any native speakers of Esperato. I hope the journalists would be able to distinguish about the mother tongue and auxiliary language.

In my two earlier post, I did mention of the conditions for host the event of congress of Esperanto. I did not realise that the rule of it, especially organising the Universal Esperanto Congress. Look at it: The invitation has to be supported by local government and tourist authorities. http://www.uea.org/info/angle/an_kongreso.html

Just too many consumers did not know that the prices of goods can be reduced if they know Esperanto can help to do so. If Esperanto were to become a global second language, the business savings easily would be in the millions of dollars, said Martha Cardenas, a language teacher in San Diego who is fluent in Esperanto and runs the Esperanto Studies Resource Center in San Diego. http://www.nctimes.com/business/article_d7cbb02c-49c1-5b02-9244-79d27e884cfa.html

A few articles on this blog talks about how the Esperanto University can be survived and helped many people in the world.

These few days, I am totally in search of the official data of the most difficult language and the easiest language for learning. I came upon this page and it is true that we have to be more alert when talking about the hardest or easiest language in learning. Now, I do question Esperanto is the easiest language in the world. I need that evident.

Will this report surprise you?

The PAGE, a parents' group who demand for the teaching of Mathematics and Science subjects in English has threatened the government to vote for the opposition if the ruling party does not meet their demand. This silly group consists of highly educated people but did not know the best education system is in Finland not America. The America is strong is not because it is the English language, it is because they don't have to learn foreign languages and can save 16 billion dollars a year. If America needs to invest like Malaysia, 3 languages for the people to learn in Primary schools till the high schools even university, I don't think America would be that strong besides the income from the sales of reference book and text books, audio visual aids and movie.

South East Asia has the largest number of English speakers. Do you agree ? Well, you can find the data of it  at  2.04 minutes of this short film. I did not know how and where they derived the data. As a member of South East Asia, I did not agree to that. If the data is true, it is showing English is not as what the net data said it has billion of speakers.

Mi volas kontrubui mian pensadon pri la novaj vortoj kiuj mi pensus ke estas bonaj vortoj por plibonigi esperanton.

Certainly I have no right to comment on this issue. It is all the right of people in the member states of EU. From the suggestions of the Esperantists to put Esperanto in EU to save more money until now is still not yet been moving much. I do agree with 2-2.se that many politicians are lazy to learn a new language, Esperanto.

This article shocked me and anger me a lot. It also forced me to think why people never care for the poor but just for self glory.

The words keep playing in my minds for many weeks now. I think I have to write it out and someone please let the AIS know the possibility to keep Esperanto University surviving.

I did not how the UEA or other Esperanto associations gather the information about the activities in the region or the country. However, my personal feeling after reading the report from the KAEM and some communication with the senior Esperanto speakers, I felt that it is very unrealistic to collect the data based on the spur of the moment activities.

At first thought, I was annoyed but on the second thought I did not.

  I was twitting about the Oomoto religion which has 54,000 followers in Japan and there should have a possibility to bump into one of the Esperanto speakers when one is in Japan.

I watch this Cuba strong man in the youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drl2jh8UGk0 I also listen to the Cuba Esperanto radio online and download it to share with friends during my promotion of Esperanto. But, just wondering Cuba has started teaching Esperanto in the school ?

Sometime ago, I wrote a piece of blog post which was talking about the creativity of Esperantists and suggested that some Esperantists who were in the promoting front lines should take the Creativity of Promoting 101 course. Now I am back again to talk about it on this again with more critical view.

In view of the 97 th International Esperanto Congress which will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, here I compiled a list of states (province) in Esperanto. There might be someone who like to visit Malaysia too before or after the congress. To avoid the confusion to the local people, who might be able to understand the Esperanto pronunciation, I just added an O to the end to signified it is a noun but still maintain in capital letter for all the proper nouns, that is, the names of the states and the capital cities of the states. My remainder would be when you are in Malaysia, just pronounce the place without the O sound and that would be as close as to the local people here, but unfortunately, there is no / e / (inverted e) sound, thus, there might be a little off the local pronunciation , however, it is still manageable to understand it. La Esperantan listo en malajzio kaj chefurbo de la ŝtatoj La lando estas Malajzio Malajzio-Kuala-Lumpro Sxtatoj (provinco)    ...

There is always a conflict between European Esperantists and Asian Esperantists. 

Just love this comment. This is also what I face when I am in my promotion of Esperanto. People tend to know how many people speak Esperanto, the time spend to learn is not a matter of fact, it is the usefulness. Speaking two languages or more in my country, Malaysia is very common. Though some of the languages may not be proficiency, it has the purpose of communication. As my friends said, they never heard Esperanto in Europe on the street eventhough Esperanto was borne in Europe. Care to consider this matter more instead of keep talking how good the language is if the Esperantists or Esperanto speakers are not even using some at home with the family members. Whether or not one can speak a language fluently after only a short period of instruction is not a good test of “workability”. The best test is always to see how many people currently speak a given language and, on that basis, Esperanto falls short. Perhaps after a sustained and coordinated campaign of state-sponsored ed...

Of late, the Esperanto speakers or Esperantists are still talking and even arguing the fact what Esperanto would become. Some said it is for peace. Some said it is for the world communication. Some said it is a part of my life. Some said it is for fun. Some said it is for business. Some said... Well, the list goes on with different ideas. Just as someone said the word esperantistoj and esperantoparolantoj and the in English Esperanto speakers and Esperantists. According to wilki definition, Esperantists are those take Esperanto as seious as their life. But for esperantistoj and esperantoparolantoj en Esperanto, I am not sure how they use it for. It would be that those arguing the Esperanto would be in two camps,one if serious and the other is no. But of all the above, mostly agree it is the function of peace. Well, a question pop up from my friends that, without peace, can we attain peace ? Even those speaking the same language are still fighting among themselves. ...

I think what my friends are worth considering. Though they were jokingly saying it but for me, I felt deep to be ashamed of as a future Esperanto speaker. The Gays and Lesbians in many parts of the world are facing more pressures than the Esperanto movement in today's world. But the Esperanto sports seem a distance name for me. I think also never happen before. As I know Esperanto activities are mainly circled around the art but not sports. Though in politics and economy too as the International Esperanto Comerce is one of the examples. I have twitted many times and again saying it in the Facebook. But, I am saying to the wrong person. My friends asked: 'Are your Esperanto speakers softies? They don't like sports. They just like to sit and read books????' I really cannot answer it. For me, I like sports and I wish I could participate in one of the sports event. Not for trophy though. What would the feeling Esperanto speakers as you are reading this. The GLB...

I was annoyed once upon a time when I read about the comment in the Yahoo answer page. Later, I agreed with the writer.

I was feeling disgusted with some Esperanto speakers. They seem not able to understand the world is made up of many kinds of spices. They are not the only ONE that live on the earth. They were fortunate to learn Esperanto in the schools or universities. But, for us in the ASEAN region, we have to make use of our free time and resources to learn this language called ESPERANTO . I know they love Esperanto much, but you must be tolerant to accept the notices that appear in our mother tongue or local languages. Do you know we have more languages in Asia than the Europe and Latin America ? Just in Indonesia, it is more than 600 languages and in Malaysia is 214 tribes. It is almost a thousand languages in just in two countries. If you want Esperanto to be a part of the day in everyone, welcome to come to ASEAN, bring us the books and textbooks. Don't just come in emptied handed. We need readers here. Languages are not just merely learn in the classrooms, readers are the vital part t...

If your country leaders are wise enough, your country can be a bilingual country in 200 hours.

I am not trained as a translator but I did some translation work. There are many arguments in the Esperanto translation. Some like it to maintain the same name, especially when it is a product. Others prefer to have it translated in sound and in meaning. I certainly going for the meaning translation if it is possible. For example the twitter, one told me that he is not a bird, he does not like to use the word pepi, he prefers tvitero. It is wise to create another word for the Esperanto users to remember the world or rather use the meaning which is equivalent to it in Esperanto. Now take a look of the currently, a very popular social media, one is Facebook and the other is Twitter. Many Esperanto speakers like to use fejsbuko and tvitero. But for me, I beg your pardon, I like to use vizagxolibro and pepilo. Well, in the Facila Vento , I surprisingly realised that they use Vindoso for Windows and Linukso for Linux. I have no complain about the linukso, it is nothing the meaning in i...

There are many different types of people and of course different types of Esperanto speakers. Recently, I came across a few young Esperanto speakers are trying to invent a new language. With the ideas of how Esperanto was created, they start to waste their time to look for a new Zamenholf in the making. Just look at this short film from the youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SDvuFJFo4&feature=player_embedded These Zamenholf in the making may know and may not know how all the constructed languages failed to achieve the what Esperanto is today. I do not like to pin point to who and what he/she likes to do for his past time, to create a new language just for fun. But I am thinking it is a silly waste of time. I would use my time to learn up Esperanto and write to the Esperanto Magazines as a contributor, perhaps, venture into the publishing of Esperanto gazette. As the late Dr Piron pointed out, there would not be any other constructed languages to be compete with Espera...

How intelligent are the youth of today. Of course, this does not apply to the countries in the West that they do not have to learn a second or foreign language. I merely able to say it from the context from my country, Malaysia, to an extend would be ASEAN countries or perhaps Asia, which we have similar cultures. If the youth in my country are intelligent enough, they would start to learn Esperanto,which is one of the 100 top languages in the world, according to BBC report , to top up their resume when they graduate from the university studies. Esperanto is not only a language to be put in the resume, for the Science students, there is, at the moment which I know of, an Esperanto Science Review which publishes few issues a year. The Teleskopo is a good chance to get the information which are not in the English magazine and at the same time, they can publish their researches in the Teleskopo. After completing the undergraduate courses, they might like to seek for another experience...

In my earlier post , I did mention about the rules and regulations to award the organising right to host the Universala Kongreso (UK). Here, I would like to stress that I do not have any intention to discredit anyone but just like to share my ideas with friends and foes. It is not in the last 50 years but with the internet age, all info can be sent to with a click of the mouse. Thus, we need to be able to submit the info in minutes if not seconds. Looking at the last year event which was held in Denmark, I could not find they were using the facebook and twitter as a part of the promotion. These two social networkings are free of charge.  Now we look at the coming even which will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam. What they have done ? Haven't they already know that they are the host for the even in the 2012 just as the Iceland is the host in the 2013. One of the conditions to be able to host the UK is : The Congress has to be officially invited by an Esperanto body: e.g. national...

This comment caught my eyes and I certainly agreed with Brian Barker. As long as Esperanto speakers remain in their own ghetto, or act as a private sect 0r club, the situation with the mass media will stay the same. Without being evangelical about the language, speakers of Esperanto should contact the mass media, to tell them that - for example - following a short period of 124 years Esperanto is now in the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide. Also http://www.lernu.net has 125 000 hits per day and Esperanto Wikipedia enjoys 400 000 hits per day. Esperanto Wikipedia has 150,000 entries, ahead of Danish and Arabic. There are two urban myths which need to be exploded. Firstly that “everyone speaks English” and secondly “no-one speaks Esperanto” . Neither of these are true and need to be challenged. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110814052105AA1uTIT&r=w&show_comments=true&pa=FZB6NWHjDG3N56z6v_2xX5WOoFFjD.LTPPN9nyeVy.XQRgm15hx2MQ--&paid=add_comme...

This line caught my eyes: They use languages of their colonial masters, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc., etc. to communicate and ran their governments!! Yes, it was true and it is true. This spans across the Asia till Latin America. Thus, I am pondering about these countries why not adopt Esperanto as their common language but instead of fighting for whose native tongue to use. Many countries in Latin America are still using their past colonial master's language. I did talk to a Latin American about this and he said, they have so many blood in their bodies and they don't know which to choose to represent the country. Well, isn't in this case, Esperanto fit nicely in it? Certainly not the politicians, as my friends said, these politicians would think of themselves rather than the country. It would have to wait for those who learn Esperanto when they are young to come to the political scene as the 2-2.net said, the politicians do not like to learn a new l...

I read many posts in the facebook from the Indigenous people that Canadian indigenous people are losing their lands and also culture and languages as well. I am far, too far away from this North pole country thus I don't really know much about it.

This site thrill me a lot. Wow, does this say that the Esperanto is a part of the parliament and is going to be major language in the United Nations ? I do not foresee it soon but the fact is how many countries in the world, their parliament list Esperanto as a language in the document translation. If you have more info of the countries, I think China may have Esperanto in the parliament as they have to broadcast it daily via the radio of Esperanto of CRI, please leave me a word. Thanks http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Commons/ByDate/20110316/writtenanswers/part018.html What is the concept of 5.5 million for British. The amout is just used for translation: (c) Spend for face-to-face (including British Sign Language) and telephone interpreting for 2009-10 is £5.5 million and from April 2010 to January 2011 (the latest data) is £5.5million.

I was madly searching for research in Asia about the propaedeutic effect that Esperanto language provides. Most of the data now available are from the European countries or English speaking countries like Australia and New Zealand. What about the data from Asia like Japan, which has large about of Esperanto speakers and also the followers of Oomoto religion which uses Esperanto for their religious purposes. I am currently doing the research on the time consuming for the local pupils. The reason for not doing the propaedeutic effect is the local people are exposed too early to the foreign languages, especially the English. Now, my question is why there is no such research in Japan ? If they can provide the same good result, this might be able to convince the Education Minister in Japan and other Asian countries to consider providing Esperanto as a spring board like the British . The children of Oomoto followers, presumably Esperanto is the second language to them since they have co...

There were some arguments on the China government in a forum in Chinese. It gave me the sense of feeling that what they argued were true enough. For example, they said China government would do anything to pleased the other countries as long as there would be some good returns. The government would also please the group of Esperanto speakers for the good of propaganda of the Chinese communism. Well, this let me ponder on the issue of 'Is China a true supporter of Esperanto movement'? Well, if you search the net, you can read that the government has the hope and was planning to do so in a slow manner. But, this would be a question of how slow it is and what the outcome of the slowness be. But for me, the question that perhaps someone has to answer is why the government does not give out direction of learning Esperanto in the year One but instead of learning English. Despite the radio which broadcast through the 46 years, now, I am doubting what the forum said is righ...

Enjoyed my Esperanto Day or Esperanto Birthday on the 26th July. It was yesterday. Maddening in twitting and of course, not co-ordinated well and wasted my effort in having the twits in #esperanto symbol. Having suggested my idea to make 26th of each the Esperanto day, not birthday though. The twit would carry two symbols, #esperanto and #tago. The aim of making 26th of each month the Esperanto Day is not to compete with the treand point. It is to let the esperantists to twit in Esperanto on 26th of the month. Of course, help the komencanto like me. However, the 26th of July is a more powerful promotion of Esperanto and it is twittering in all languages you can to let the followers know what Esperanto is. If they know it in this meaningful day and start to learn it, it would be a good and sweet memory for them. It would be good point to let the other beginners to know 26th is the birthday of Esperanto and the month they have to find out. I got this idea that there is a twit...

It is 124 years now and it would go on stronger and stronger as my wish in this day. Feliĉan Naskiĝtagon al Esperanto Estas 124 jaroj kaj mi deziru ke ĝi fortas kaj fortos en futuro. 26 julio 2011 en malajzio

I am not a translator but some how has involved in translating work for some time. If one speaks more than one language, s/he would involve in translating. Good or bad translation is another topic of discussion.

Kiel la loko por esperanta kongreso estas elektita ? Ni devu pensi pri tio. After writing the Vietnam post of the UK and someone told me, nope, ask me how the venue of the esperanto is chosen. I did not know. But according to the UEA site , it has certain rules to follow but alas one of the item did not list down is the place should have certain number of Esperanto speakers. The UEA site list the venue should have: The venue Universal Congresses of Esperanto have been held in all types of facilities: convention centres, concert halls, hotels and fairs convention premises, universities etc. But, considering the size of the Congress, UEA prefers to hold its congresses in multifunctional and self-sufficient enviroments and in premisses located rather in the downtowns or in their vicinity than out of the cores of the cities. UEA tries to organize a congress outside Europe every 3 to 4 years, in order to support the movement in other continents, and inside of Europe to migrate equi...

While on the road of promoting and introducing Esperanto,the questions that the audience post would be : Which country is the Esperanto ? No country that speak Esperanto ? If no country adopt is as national language, then, which race the Esperanto is belong to ? Well, it is time that we have to know the earth is moving and many things are created day in and day out. The food, clothing etc. Unofficial data said that it is about 1,000 artificial languages in the world. Some died out quickly and some stay and even florishing. But ONLY Esperanto survives and even get the recognition from UNESCO. I remembered when I was young, we used to create secret languages so that the adults would not know what was going on. They perhaps think that the children were playful. If I would include those short live languages that we created, I think it would be more than a million artificial languages. Interestingly that people learn a language which has the realationship to the country and ...

Did the Esperantists throughout the world ask for an apology from the United State of America ? Why on earth so many artificial language the department did not want to choose but in purpose to choose Esperanto which has been passed in UNESCO. What is your feeling ? Angry or sad ? http://www.esperanto-usa.org/eo/node/1028 http://www.kafejo.com/lingvoj/auxlangs/eo/maneuver/

Read the report that how English is hard to be understood but they still want to make English a compulsory pass in Malaysia. Sodomy II defence counsel Karpal Singh has laughed off Parti Kita president Zaid Ibrahim's police report against him as 'frivolous' and a distraction to the police from serving the interests of the people. “Zaid should seriously consider a crash course in the English language,” said Karpal ( right ) in a statement today. “It is obvious to one having even the rudiments of the English language that my references to Zaid 'fishing in troubled waters' refers to the law of contempt being defied, and the risk and consequences of committing contempt of court could, as a consequences, make one liable to a fine or imprisonment.” Last Wednesday Karpal warned the Kita president and former PKR leader that the latter's public remarks on Anwar's sodomy trial veered close to contempt of court. He added then that, “As a lawyer, Zaid should k...

I did not know these talks are redicules or it is the talk. But, it is good to reflect on it from all angles. http://www.ted.com/conversations/1642/the_english_language_promotes.html http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english.html?awesm=on.ted.com_93mk&utm_campaign=patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english&utm_content=ted.com-talkpage&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html

I was searching for Hanoi, which is the hosting city for the 97th World Esperanto Congress ( 97-a Universala Esperanta Kongreso ) and found that the info of Vikipedio in English and Esperanto is not the same.

Many in the Esperanto circle know who Chuck is. I also subscribe his Esperanto blog to read. His latest blog was about the IJK in Ukrain and of course, it was unsatisfying for him. He blogged in a humorous way but the bottom line is that the blame is there. I left a comment about going to Rome do as Romans do. It looks like it was trashed. We always tend to judge people from our way of life but do not have the consideration for the poor and underdeveloped countries. I was such a person before, I admitted it. I was in China and Thailand to see the way of life still in the far remote system. I did the same thing of comment, hurt the feeling of the local people. I also like to apologise here for my ignorance. Organising the Esperanto Congress has no government backup like the Olympic Games, Asia Games etc. It is all from the Esperantists who have to use the time, take leave from work if there is no full time staff to run the work. Therefore, I felt no surprise at all fro...

When I was looking for the info, they did not even respond to me. Well, it is always an excuse word BUSY. 

I was talking to a few friends about business ventures and all of a sudden think of Esperanto gift items. Well, it is marvelous to find someone has good items here .

At times, when there is no idea what to write or nag, it is good to pop in the forum, of course, the good forum pages like lernu.net. I just love this idea too. This whole business of giving Esperanto a new public image is to my mind a matter of great urgency. For a start perhaps we could organise a concerted attack on 'Globish' (international English as it is actually spoken). I, for one, am fed up with hearing the ugly vowels, jarring consonants, and primitive grammar of our evergrowing immigrant population here in the UK. And hardly a televison or radio bulletin passes without some interview with an Eksterlandano whose command of English is sorrowful. Forget about the classic English virtues of tolerance and fairmindedness. It's time to start taking the piss - or to establish a tradition of correcting every mispronunciation, misuse of vocabulary and mangling of grammar, every time we encounter it. Speak English or Esperanto, not Globish, should be the battl...

La Hispana Esperanto-Kongreson (Spanish Esperanto Congress) did a good job. Now the whole world is talking about this live stream between Corsetti-Camacho. But, truely, I have not watch it yet as my internet connect in my house in the village is horrible bad. ( Many people won't understand the plight of the people living in the village) http://gxirafo.blogspot.com/ This talk prompted me to think of why there is no one organising the Esperanto debate as an annual activity for local clubs, regional or even international. The debate of Corsetti--Camcho to some is said a discussion but if we can have the proper debate event like other languages, even in the school clubs, that would certainly help more schools to set up the Esperanto Clubs. Will it be too difficult to do that ? There are so many Esperanto Associations in the world, begin from the association for the members and this would soar soon through inter-clubs or inter-associations and the regional would grow and inter...

I think I have talked about it many times in the past. And again, today is another same nagging blog article. I revisited the KAEM page , nothing much change. Why I came to touch on the Esperanto publication again. It was because I have an argument with few friends. Afterall, they are right with their visions. I don't blame the fact that they are very keen to know what and why Esperanto in Asia never take off. The issue we touched on, again is the Monato magazine, which claim to be something like the Newsweek version in English. I have never even read one copy of this magazine. I could not say much about. But, I certainly doubt about the content would be as good as newsweek. 1. Newsweek has the Asia version, which focus on the Asian issues.But with no Asia agents of Monato, how the magazine is going to sell like Newsweek. Asian would foremost, like to read what is happening in Asia. We don't wait till the translation months later to come out and read it. This Monato has ...