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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...