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Esperanto: Esperanto Speakers
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The association of Esperanto speakers with each other creates a community of Esperanto speakers, which, like any community of speakers, is of potential sociological interest quite independently of any linguistic or literary interest Esperanto itself may hold. The community of speakers is usually referred to in Esperanto (rather loosely) as the "Esperanto movement."
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The majority of Esperanto speakers learn the language through self-directed study, online tutorials, and correspondence courses taught by corps of volunteers. In more recent years, teaching websites like lernu! have become popular.
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Esperanto's international focus means that Esperanto-speakers are ... frequent travelers and would have a lot to contribute on other destinations and topics. There are also international en:hospitality exchange networks, like the Pasporta Servo, that use Esperanto exclusively for interactions between members.
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Participating in a local Esperanto group is the best way to practice and one of the most satisfying parts of being an Esperanto speaker. There are clubs with weekly, monthly, and annual events and may involve conversation, practice, and games.
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Relatively few schools teach Esperanto officially outside of China, Hungary, and Bulgaria; the majority of Esperanto speakers continue to learn the language through self-directed study or correspondence courses. Several Esperanto paper correspondence courses were early on adapted to e-mail and taught by corps of volunteer instructors. In more recent years, teaching websites like lernu! have become popular. Various educators have estimated that Esperanto can be learned in anywhere from one quarter to one twentieth the amount of time required for other languages.[6] Some argue... that this is only true for native speakers of Western European languages.[7]
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His efforts were brilliantly successful in that Esperanto is the only deliberately created language to have generated and sustained a body of fluent (or even semi-fluent) speakers. There are of course excellent historical, linguistic, and sociological reasons for this, although they are not as well studied as one might like. Of course Esperanto has not succeeded in achieving sufficient international visibility to be used in all the contexts where it would be useful. At the moment it seems unlikely that it ever will, although accurate prognostication depends on theoretical assumptions that are not very well developed.
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