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> I think it'd be a worthwhile trade off against the loss of cultural knowledge that results from language death. I don't. Out of curiosity, how many language
by imron 9y ago
> I think it'd be a worthwhile trade off against the loss of cultural knowledge that results from language death.
I don't. Out of curiosity, how many languages do you speak?
- BillChapman 9y agoYesterday (21 October 2017) I chaired a gathering of Esperanto speakers in Conwy, north Wales, UK. Present were speakers of Welsh, Tagalog, Slovene, Estonian, Brazilian Portuguese and maybe a few others besides English. We had Esperantyo as our common language. I have spoken Esperanto for precisely fifty years, and throught that time I have seen Esperanto as an aŭiliary language (sorry, my keyboard has just gone into Esperanto mode!), i.e. a language which values our native tongues while enabling trouble-free communication. I speak Welsh, French and German, by the way, and have an ability to bluff my way in a few more languages. Life is too short to learn them all. Keep on fighting for your smaller languages. There is plenty of room in the world for them - and for Esperanto.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoTwo, one poorly - English, and Maori (the native language of New Zealand). I spent many years of my childhood in kura kaupapa Maori[1] classes (within regular NZ schools). I was at best conversational in spoken Maori, better at written, but it's been many years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura_Kaupapa_M%C4%81ori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura_Kaupapa_M%C4%81ori