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Thread poster: Stefanie Sendelbach
Esperanto - how 'alive' is it? How long to learn? Any online courses?
mankso
English to Esperanto
Update Jun 12, 2007

Update on info supplied by kanajlo in Nov/05:

1) internacia.tv in Brazil has now ceased broadcasting.
2) Radio Polonia has switched to daily 20 min. podcasts in Esperanto reachable here:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/eo/
3) Vancouver Esperanto Society is active and site is regularly updated:
http://esperanto.memlink.ca




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Budz888
Australia
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German to English
since when is Indonesian so easy? Apr 2, 2008


Stephanie Mitchel wrote:
A: Much less time than almost any language in the world except
Indonesian, however fast you learn languages...[and in answer to the question in parentheses:] Only partly.
Stephanie


Oh, no, no another person coming out with this old preconception about Indonesian being so easy!!!!!!!

I wonder whether any of the people that say Indonesian is so easy can actually speak it???

We're talking about a language where all the vocab has to be learned from scratch, with no help from cognates as is the case for most European languages. The grammar also isn't that straight-forward. If it's so easy, let's adopt it as a lingua franca instead of English or Esperanto for that matter.

I'm not saying that Indonesian isn't easier than say, Hungarian, but is it that easy? And as for it being just a bit more difficult than Esperanto that's ridiculous.

Roberto

[Edited at 2008-04-02 13:46]


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