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I think there are two counterproductive forces around Esperanto: a) Attachment to bizarre communist political ideology (I've seen this a lot in online and offli
by microcolonel 9y ago
I think there are two counterproductive forces around Esperanto: a) Attachment to bizarre communist political ideology (I've seen this a lot in online and offline Esperanto groups) and b) slightly deficient phonotactics for an IAL (some sounds used are incredibly difficult to teach to e.g. Japanese speakers).
Third to those is maybe the accusative, the grammar of which is the subject of an entire pamphlet.
It's otherwise super easy to learn if you can manage to pronounce the sounds. I encourage you to give it a shot either through Duolingo or through Kurso de Esperanto
- jhbadger 9y agoI think you are confusing anti-nationalism/world republic idealism with communism. Certainly the former is part of the traditional Esperanto culture -- Zamenhof's "interna ideo" and all that. The relationship of Esperanto to communism is more antagonistic given that the Soviet Union jailed and executed many Esperantists (see Ulrich Lins' "La Danĝera Lingvo").
- Chris_Jay 9y agoThe accusative is mostly difficult for native English speakers because we only use the accusative for certain pronouns (he/him, she/her, who/whom). It does take some getting used to if one has never learned the concept in one's native language. But denoting the accusative allows Esperanto to have an arbitrary word order, which cuts out a lot of headache elsewhere.