This article has been posted before on Medium: https://auxlang.xyz/100-reasons-to-learn-esperanto-f5c3d785b380
For a more serious look, read on here: https://auxlang.xyz/a-new-age-for-esperanto-again-7ee9522bfc3c
- Esperanto can be learned in about a week up to a month
- Language learning is hard!
- Tolkien spoke well about it
- Umberto Eco spoke well about it
- William Shatner made a movie using the language
- Charlie Chaplin used it in The Great Dictator
- Your country has organizations using it for quite some time already
- UNESCO supports Esperanto
- Esperanto events are fucking awesome
- Esperanto swear words are fucking awesome
- Muzaiko is actually a cool online radio station
- Evildea is actually a decent YouTuber
- Somebody is motivated enough to think of 100 reasons to learn Esperanto
- It’s really easy to create your own words
- You can actually express yourself at least as good as in your native language
- You don’t have to annoy people with the assumption that everybody speaks English
- You have an easier time learning languages like English
- You have direct access to native speakers of almost any language
- You can find free accomodation with Pasporta Servo
- You can read translations of some of the best world literature
- Most translations are actually accurate!
- Most translations are actually readable!
- You build great friendships for life
- Denaskuloj! Go out of your mind and make native Esperanto speakers!
- For the time being you will have a secret language to use with your friends
- When that is not valid anymore you don’t have any real reason to use a secret language
- You start actually understanding grammar
- You will know what a crocodile really is
- Your bathroom will become much more of a necessity place
- The USA stops being the center of the world
- You can pick your fights with the people you talk about themselves
- You can start enjoying international conventions without interpreters
- EK and Tajpi are great pieces of software!
- So is Linux!
- What is more cool than using your computer in Esperanto?
- Oh my, you can use a complete Office Suite in Esperanto!
- We need you!
- If you need us, we will be there!
- Seriously, there is a delegate network to help you out with all kinds of things
- The future is now!
- You will actually get a better grip on your thoughts
- You haven’t lived if you have never seen Catalans singing and dancing
- It’s really awesome to dance La Bamba
- That is probably not danced as you might imagine it
- We need more YouTubers, if you are one, please apply!
- You will learn about so much more created languages!
- jan ale li wile toki e toki pona a!
- Ĉi tiu frazo verŝajne estas Volapukaĵo por vi…
- World Peace!
- If you are a boy, finding your perfect girl
- If you are a girl, finding your perfect boy
- If you are a boy, finding your perfect boy
- If you are a girl, finding your perfect girl
- If you are human, finding your perfect companionship
- You can actually become important fast in the Esperanto movement
- We are really experienced in finding the best deal for traveling around the world
- The Esperanto movement is mostly built on young people partying with their friends
- We really want a better world
- Really! We hate it every moment war shuts us off from our friends :(
- If you are a grammar nazi, you will feel right at home
- if you are really not that great at language, you still can do great!
- You won’t actually lose much time learning it.
- You can stop speaking it for years and still retrieve it really fast
- Maybe you can even start working in other countries!
- Give the languages you fancy but never managed to learn a head start!
- There are about 1 to 10 million of us, although it’s really hard to count…
- There are about 200–2000 native speakers!
- Native speakers don’t actually speak Esperanto better than non-natives
- Esperanto Scrabble is much more fun than Scrabble in other languages
- No moment passes without Esperanto being used in the world
- You will actually start knowing the cultures of the countries you visit better
- Nationalities will lose all meaning to you
- Esperanto will actually be a language of your own!
- Really, no one decides but you how you use the language
- Yep, no annoying feeling about how you absolutely don’t sound native!
- We love boardgames!
- There are a lot of programmers amongst us
- Although this list is meant for fun, it actually doesn’t lie
- You have access to some of the most accurate and still fully emotional translations in the world
- You can study in Esperanto at AIS
- You can access Hungarian universities with Esperanto
- You can get a European Common Framework of Reference graded certificate of your Esperanto knowledge
- There is a really nice Wikipedia in Esperanto
- We actually all speak more languages than only Esperanto
- Yes, often also English
- No, that’s definitely not guaranteed
- Esperanto is easier if you have dyslexia
- Because Esperanto is written exactly how you pronounce it
- You only have to learn few words to get started
- Those words are probably already familiar to you
- There are great Esperanto groups in Telegram
- There are some great Esperanto groups on Facebook
- It’s cool to share a list like this about something you didn’t know about until you started reading it
- World Domination!
- It’s fun to be able to say that you speak a dead language
- It’s even more fun if you can actually travel around the world with it and find other speakers
- Even better that Esperanto was never dead to begin with
- Actually…
- Yeah…
- We are just getting started…
- And the Duolingo course is great!
102 . Se eksterteranoj volas lerni homan lingvon, ili verŝajne lernos Esperanton ĉar ĝi pli facilas por ili.
Pro-tip: switch your phone to Esperanto to learn days of the week and months of the year, et al.
off-topic: big fan of your OpenBazaar-store, just unhappy it's US only...
Big fan? I had no idea I had fans.
The OpenBazaar world is still very small :D
Can you give some examples for point 10 ?
Bonega artikolo :) Mi tre amas la fakton ke iu laboras por fari la Esperantan mondon tio richa :) (Mi havas novan komputilon, do mi ankoraux ne havas Tajpi'on :P Pardonu). Mi sekvas vin :)