Posts Tagged ‘constructed languages’
Mar
Mar
Esperanto, a first look
Since choosing to become an active member of the language blogging community, I have started seing Esperanto mentioned a lot. While I have had some basic understanding of what Esperanto is, I didn’t really know any details about it. After seeing it mentioned a few times in response to last week’s post about reasons to learn Spanish, I decided to take a little time to discover what Esperanto is about.
Mar
Mar
Fluent in one week? The Esperanto challenge!
While looking into the rudiments of Esperanto on a bit of a weekend whim, I tweeted, somewhat jestfully, that I could imagine someone being able to acheive fluency in Esperanto in one week. That remark was met with a friendly challenge and even a starting point, and so I’ve decided to give it a try.
Apr
Apr
Esperanto one week later – am I fluent?
One week ago, after taking a brief look at Esperanto, I made the comment that it looks so easy that I could see how it’s possible to be fluent in one week, which led to my one-week Esperanto challenge. Now, one week later, how did it turn out? Am I fluent?
Jul
Jul
Five failures of Esperanto
Okay, I know I’ve said Esperanto is more religion than language, and I’ve complained about how few people there are with whom to use Esperanto. But today I’m going to put aside those biases and bring attention to a few specific details of Esperanto which give me an unfavorable opinion of it as a language.…
Aug
Aug
Language profile: Toki Pona
It’s been a while since I’ve done a language profile, so today I’ve chosen a particularly interesting language to profile. It’s a constructed language called Toki Pona….