Esperanto - The World`s Favorite "Constructed Language"

What is Esperanto? Is it useful to learn? Is it easy? This video is about Esperanto - the international auxiliary language created in the 19th century. I have been studying a little bit of Esperanto over the past month or so, and recorded this video in basic Esperanto.

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Esperanto is a constructed language, meaning that it was intentionally created and didn't develop naturally. It was created by Dr. LL Zamenhoff in the years leading up to 1887.

He intentionally created it to be a simple language to learn. It has very few grammatical rules (only 16 of them, to be precise), and there are no exceptions to the rules. For example, all nouns end with the letter "o", like "amiko" (friend) and "tago" (day). All adjectives end with the letter "a", like "amika" (friendly) and "taga" (daily), and so on.
I am thrilled to announce that there is no grammatical gender in Esperanto!

Esperanto vocabulary was taken from a cross-section of European languages, choosing words and forms that would be comprehensible to speakers of as many of those languages as possible. If you know two or three European languages, whether Romance, Germanic, Slavic, or other, then you'll probably immediately recognize a lot of Esperanto words.

Esperanto is fun to learn, but unfortunately it is quite useless. You have to seek out opportunities to use it in online Esperanto communities and offline meetups and events. That makes it a cool hobby and way to meet friends, but you're not likely to ever hear someone speaking Esperanto on the street and have an impulsive conversation with them.

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Music: "Kickin` It" by Jingle Punks.
Brief celebration music: "Ghost Walk" by Silent Partner.