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Of course it is not practical to try to convince everybody to learn Esperanto - the best way to introduce Esperanto as the international language is by introducing it as a basic component of the school system. For this reason, the Friends of Esperanto was formed for people who don't speak Esperanto. Yet there are many reasons why people in Newcastle choose to learn Esperanto. Esperanto is easier than any national language because of its regularity, and some people want to learn Esperanto before they learn any other language because it is easier. Studies have shown that people who learn Esperanto for one year and (for example) Japanese for one year end up speaking Japanese better than people who learn Japanese for two years. Some people learn Esperanto for social reasons, and because it is a fun language to learn.
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Today Esperanto is the most widely used international auxiliary language and is particularly popular in Eastern Europe and China. There is a flourishing Esperanto literature including books, magazines and poetry. Some of the literary works are originally written in Esperanto while others are translated from other languages. There are ... Esperanto songs and a number of radio stations broadcast news bulletins in Esperanto.
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When hearing about Esperanto, many people initially have objections to it. However, most of the criticisms are unfounded, as you can read below. Find out for example why Esperanto is more suitable than English as an international language, how Esperanto is not Euro-centric, why it is as easy as it should be and how it promotes language diversity.
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Esperanto has a simple, regular and extremely flexible structure, and a vocabulary of international character. This makes it possible to reach fluency much more quickly than in any other language - it's up to ten times easier to learn, according to scientific studies.
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The famous constructed language Esperanto first appeared in Russian Poland in 1887, the product of a Polish-Jewish opthalmologist and amateur linguist, Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. Dr. Zamenhof hoped that the worldwide adoption of a neutral international language would ease ethnic tensions and enable people of widely differing backgrounds to communicate with each other. The name of the language means "one who hopes." Esperanto is not officially aligned with any particular country or ethnic group; indeed, one can find Esperanto speakers in well over 100 countries around the world. Pasporta Servo, a hospitality service for Esperanto speakers, includes more than 1,300 addresses in almost ninety different countries.
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The workers’ Esperanto movement was especially strong in Germany and the USSR, where, among other things, the "Scientific Anarchist Library of the International Language" (ISAB) was founded in 1923. It published Ethics by Kropotkin, Anarchism by Borovoi and other works for an international readership in Esperanto. One of the important centres of activity for anarchist Esperantists during this period was the Far East, China and Japan. In these countries Esperanto quickly became a topic of popular attention thanks to anarchists. A few journals, mainly bilingual, were published. Starting in 1913, Liu Shifu (his nickname: Sifo) published the journal La Voĉo de l’Popolo [The Voice of the People].
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