where did some of you learn Esperanto

Hello, I wanna ask about sth I'm not familiar with reddit and Eng is not my first language, so if I did sth rude plz let me know🥺🥺

I'm interested in articial languages. but as a Korean, I can't agree that esperanto is easy to learn... and many other constructed languages(based on european) too I think most of international artificial language projects depend on european languages too much, and this makes hard for them to be an international language (this sentence doesn't mean this is the only reason!!)

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thx

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This is a post where you can ask any question you have about Esperanto! Anything about learning or using the language, from its grammar to its community is welcome. No question is too small or silly! Be sure to help other people with their questions because we were all newbies once. Please limit your questions to this thread and leave the rest of the sub for examples of Esperanto in action.

Jen afiŝo, kie vi povas demandi iun ajn demandon pri Esperanto. Iu ajn pri la lernado aŭ uzado de lingvo, pri gramatiko aŭ la komunumo estas bonvena. Neniu demando estas tro malgranda aŭ malgrava! Helpu aliajn homojn ĉar ni ĉiuj iam estis novuloj. Bonvolu demandi nur ĉi tie por ke la reditero uzos Esperanton anstataŭ nur paroli pri ĝi.

Okaze de Zamenhof-tago, mi salutas cxiujn kiuj uzas Esperanton.

Por mi, Esperanto estas donaco al cxiu persono kiu deziras subteni kaj partopreni kontakton malgraw malsameco de naciaj lingvoj kaj kiu kontrawas la ekziston de muroj inter kulturoj.

Recently, I read this statement:

I generally understand the story about The French voting down Esperanto to be a myth.

Then I say: let's present the facts (as detailed by Edmond Privat in his book "Historio de la Lingvo Esperanto" and by Ulrich Lins in his book "Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin"):

1. Edmond Privat, a commitee member and future president of the UEA, worked at the League of Nations starting 1920.
2. On Privat's initiative, 11 delegates (from Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Haiti, India, Italy, Persia and South Africa) presented a draft resolution regarding the official introduction and instruction of Esperanto at public schools to the First Assembly of the League of Nations on December 11, 1920.
3. The Second Commission, who took up the resolution on December 16, accepted the resolution with modification 10-1. The lone dissenter was Gabriel Hanotaux.
4. Gabriel Hanotaux was a member of the Académie française since April Fools' Day of 1897 (he was Seat 29) and a French delegate to the League of Nations from 1920-1923.
5. On December 18, 1920, Gabriel Hanotaux denounced the resolution at the First Assembly and launched a defense of the French language. He succeeded in forcing the Assembly to table the motion.
6. In 1921, the UEA sent an invitation to the League of Nations "to appoint a delegate to the 13th International Congress of Esperanto, to be held in Prague, July 31 – August 6." Eventually, Nitobe Inazō, Under-Secretary General of the League, took up the invitation and went to the Congress.
7. On August 31, 1921, Nitobe submitted his report, "Esperanto and the Language Question at the League of Nations", to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, Sir Eric Drummond. This is now known as the Nitobe Report.
8. On September 5, 1921, the Second Assembly of the League of Nations opened.
9. During the Second Assembly, delegates from 12 countries (Albania, Belgium, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, India, Japan, Persia, Romania, South Africa and Venezuela) resubmitted the proposal in favor of the official introduction and instruction of Esperanto in public schools. The Assembly accepted this proposal on September 15, stating that it merits further study and that a survey would be made.
10. On January 15, 1922, the conservative government of Raymond Poincaré rose to power in France.
11. On January 23, 1922, the League of Nations secretariat issued a circular to the member-states of the League "inviting them to report on the state of Esperanto instruction in the schools."
12. In March 1922, the French ambassador to Switzerland, Henry Allizé, sent communication to his government regarding the upcoming international conference on Esperanto in the League headquarters and called it "dangerous".
13. The International Conference on the Use of Esperanto successfully took place on April 18-20, 1922 in Geneva. It was attended by Secretary-General Drummond, delegates of 16 governments, and teachers from 28 countries.
14. On June 3, 1922, Léon Bérard, the French Minister of Public Instruction, issues a decree banning Esperanto from being taught in French public schools.
15. A few weeks afterwards, before the opening of its Third Assembly on September 4, the League of Nations secretariat issued a favorable report on Esperanto, "Esperanto as an International Auxiliary Language". It mentioned the French ban.
16. The Fifth Commission studied the report. Two expressed their objections against Esperanto: France (again, this time by Georges Reynald) and Brazil (by Raul do Rio Branco). Finland, Persia, China, Japan, and Bulgaria openly supported Esperanto. Sweden and Norway preferred English, while Denmark wanted Ido. Nevertheless, the report was accepted by the committee as a League document (but without the last part on conclusions and recommendations) on September 14, 1922, and then by the Assembly on September 21. By a vote of 26-2 (Sweden and Norway stuck to their choice of English), the question was then transferred to the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (also known as the Commission on International Cooperation, the predecessor of UNESCO).
17. This committee was headed by Henri Bergson, another member of the Académie française (he was Seat 7). He was said to be privately sympathetic to Esperanto but he relented to the pressure exerted by Minister Léon Bérard to "drown the push for Esperanto".
18. Two Francophone members of the committee objected to Esperanto: Swiss member Gonzague de Reynold, professor of history and French literature at the Universities of Berne and Fribourg, and Julien Luchaire, the French general inspector of public instruction. Luchaire's superior was no other than Léon Bérard.
19. On August 1, 1923, the Commission decided to "spurn Esperanto". (6 members voted for this decision, only 1 voted against, and 3 abstained.) As TIME Magazine put it, "The Commission decided to eschew synthetic languages, and to invite the League to favor the selection of a living language as one of the most powerful means for bringing the nations of the world together. English and French must fight it out."
20. During the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations (which started on September 3, 1923), the French delegates (including Hanotaux) tried to finish Esperanto once and for all: they wanted that "the League adopt a sharper version of the Commission’s decision; in this new version, the League was to recommend explicitly the learning of foreign national languages in preference to an artificial auxiliary language."
21. However, other delegates protested, and in the end, France withdrew the proposal.
22. On September 29, 1923, the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations ended. It was also Gabriel Hanotaux's last day as France's delegate to the League.

TLDR; France has always opposed Esperanto in the League of Nations (not without help, for sure), and its opposition definitely sealed Esperanto's fate in the League...

BUT!

Esperantists of the time were realistic about Esperanto's chances in the League: they did not foresee officialization on the horizon, nor did they any faith in the League's capabilities to enforce such a decision. Hence, the goal of Privat's initiatives within the League was mainly propaganda, and measured by that standard, it had a measure of success, especially after 1923.

EDIT: Fixed the order of events and added a few sentences and additional facts, and one more sidenote: Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré was also a member of the Academie française since 1909.

Saluton! Mi estas komencanto kaj volas diri saluton. Mi ekas je 2024-12-12 kaj estas felica esti ci tie :)

Hello

I am very early in my Esperanto journey and am looking to improve my skills by trying to do a play-by-post roleplaying game in Esperanto.

I have zero details worked out yet but is there anyone interested in this type of idea?

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Wondering if I should learn it as my next language

I'm sorry for asking this in English, my Esperanto is not very good.

What features/aspects of Esperanto do you like? It can be anything (grammar, word building, culture, etc).