Esperanto, why not?

If you don't know, Esperanto is the universal language invented in the late 1800's to try and make understanding between different nations easier.

So why isn't it taught in schools? Surely if it becomes part of the curriculum in our own and other countries it can only improve future relations?

....or is it the satanic tool of the Illuminati, waiting to replace all other languages once the New World Order is in place?

we dunt need to know no languages m8 everyione forin speeks ingerlish tha knows

Or... We... Just... Shout... Slowly.

If you don't know, Esperanto is the universal language invented in the late 1800's to try and make understanding between different nations easier.

 

So why isn't it taught in schools? Surely if it becomes part of the curriculum in our own and other countries it can only improve future relations?

 

....or is it the satanic tool of the Illuminati, waiting to replace all other languages once the New World Order is in place?

Because it's very little used in the real world and it would have little practical value.

Or... We... Just... Shout... Slowly.

And use hand gestures

Languages are deep seated in our culture. To give up our language would be like giving up our identity. The English culture has taken too many beatings over the last two decades. It is not ready for any more.

Languages are deep seated in our culture. To give up our language would be like giving up our identity. The English culture has taken too many beatings over the last two decades. It is not ready for any more.

Nonsense, it's merely evolving and being enriched and broadened.

Edit - and in any event Esperanto is exceedingly unlikely to turn up on the Nation Curriculum anytime soon.

Nonsense, it's merely evolving and being enriched and broadened.

 

Edit - and in any event Esperanto is exceedingly unlikely to turn up on the Nation Curriculum anytime soon.

Enriched and broadened.:hihi::hihi:

... and it would have little practical value.

I read somewhere that it is a good language to learn as a child, because the grammar is constructed without the quirks that happen in real languages. Studying 1 year of Esperanto and 1 year of French, for example, is better than studying 2 years of French.

The Threefold Benefits of Esperanto

• Esperanto learned through one tenth of the fatigue 8 so much shortens the necessary learning time of subsequent languages that this in itself is a sufficient reason to learn it.

Languages are deep seated in our culture. To give up our language would be like giving up our identity. The English culture has taken too many beatings over the last two decades. It is not ready for any more.

I didn't say anything about giving up our language. You may be surprised to learn that second languages have been taught in schools for many years.

Because it's very little used in the real world and it would have little practical value.

Hence the reason for the thread. If every country taught esperanto as a second language of COURSE it would gain practical value.

When the internet was invented did you claim it will never catch on because not enough people have computers?

I read somewhere that it is a good language to learn as a child, because the grammar is constructed without the quirks that happen in real languages. Studying 1 year of Esperanto and 1 year of French, for example, is better than studying 2 years of French.

 

The Threefold Benefits of Esperanto

 

Experiments in teaching7 have shown that Hungarian pupils who had previously learned Esperanto learned English 40 per cent faster than those without Esperanto as a base; German pupils learned English 30 per cent faster in similar circumstances. Moreover, the Esperanto-based students attained, on average, about half a mark (scale: failed 1, excellent 5) better than the other pupils in mathematics, geography, their native language and, naturally, also in other foreign languages. Thus it has been proved that:

 

• Esperanto learned through one tenth of the fatigue 8 so much shortens the necessary learning time of subsequent languages that this in itself is a sufficient reason to learn it.

Yeah, that sounds entirely reasonable - when I said 'practical value' I was thinking more in terms of communicating with others as opposed to enhancing learning of other languages.