Esperanto in Malaysia

It is delighted to see the change of mindset of Malaysians.

Hope this is the effect special report of Nanyang Siang Pau on April 11, 2010. Other mainstream medias are still not knowing what Esperanto is.

The Esperanto language will as a part of language that Malaysians are learning in days to come if not in months.

I do not have to say much of Esperanto language, if you did not follow my posts in the past, just search it or using the search engine to look up for it. What I provide here is the learning site http://www.lernu.net

Certainly, I am unable to command this language yet as my head did not have that power to register the vocabulary but someone sent me this face book link and I realized it is only 552 words to learn at the beginning stage and it changes to become 2000 words.

Certainly, it is a long way to go for Esperanto language as you could hardly find any exercise in the net, unlike English language, you can find in 1000s. Some Esperanto speakers left message in my post saying once you googled, you can find in millions. Fine, the search engine is not able to tell you what grammar it is and many times it repeated as the search is based on the word--grammar not the true content.

I believed there are many Esperanto speakers who could write some exercises for the learners who do not have to log into lernu site to practice the language. The about.com is practically none station to be the consultants for the language unlike the peer language of English.

I did have discussion with few Esperanto speakers and read it online, realized that the Esperanto speakers are very much in the old mindset that it leaves it to the people to like it or unlike it. I try to search in face book but can find few groups in it, alas, the Asia body did not have one but only the yahoo group. But now, Malaysians can find the Malaysian group, and also the ASEAN.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120454611320088 Facebook group of Esperanto in Malaysia
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129918767022445 Facebook group of Esperanto in ASEAN

Well, touching on ASEAN, I hope this guy who created the group and also those members would really, seriously considering to have the language for the ASEAN, one language one ASEAN as it says.

I do not know which language that ASEAN choose to use for conference language, perhaps it is English, judging from the website of ASEAN is the colonial language.

Now the wise representatives should be like the European parliament to consider using Esperanto language as a conference language.

ASEAN has nothing much more than 11 countries and it would not be as many as the European countries but, if the wise ASEAN represents can consider the suggestion, each country representatives needed 2 languages to walk into the conference room, one is his/her country’s language and one Esperanto. This would save up tons of money for translation, paper, cost of interpreters. Besides, the people in ASEAN can travel freely in ASEAN region without language barrier.

Therefore, would the ASEAN administration listen and read this post ? I doubt it.

Thus, the Esperanto speakers perhaps can do something.

Comments

mankso said…
If people are content to continue using the ethnic language of former colonial masters as a means of communication, that is something they need to think about. But most Esperanto-speakers, and many of those whose languages and cultures have already been destroyed by linguistic neo-colonialism, feel that only a NON-ethnic language, such as Esperanto, is a suitable candidate for a world inter-language. 'Universal bilingualism' [YOUR ethnic language + non-ethnic Esperanto for all] should be the goal, and NOT 'one language for the world' (where one ethnic language rules and forces out other ethnic languages).
Unknown said…
Esperanto language is fun to learn! Heheee.. in Malaysia , esperanto still not a famous language yet.. even though it is an artificial language, its been popular in Europe countries nowadays.. compare English language or any others made-up languages,, is quite difficult especially those who are still can't speak english fluently .. in Malaysia we had learnt english since we were at kindergarten school, but until entering university or colleges still cant speak english. Its ok if could speak intermediate.. how if the student not able to spoken english even basic ? So pity. Esperanto is the best way to convert as a second language in our country,, perhaps ;)))
Anak Pinang said…
Read more of the advantage of Esperanto at Malaysia Esperanto Studies Group http://mesg2012.blogspot.com