ĜI OKAZAS!!!
https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/e...peranto-Online
For those of you who don't know, Esperanto is a constructed, international auxiliary language that is super easy to learn. Because of the way it's laid out (no grammatical irregularities, letters are consistently and phonetically pronounced, etc.), the average student can pick it up in a matter of weeks or months rather than years. I must admit that it has a reputation these days for being a very geeky hobby; but once you feel the rush of talking to someone whose mother-tongue you don't share, especially about topics that are pertinent to libertarians and non-interventionists, it's hard to stop coming back to it. And, at long last, after decades of most decent home-instruction courses and books for the language being out-of-print, the acclaimed, free language-learning platform DuoLingo is preparing to launch their EO course next month in beta. To date, 15,000 people have already signed up to be notified of its release.
The reason I bring it up here (aside from it being awesome news in and of itself) is that I see this as a very rare opportunity for libertarians, anarchists, and agorists to learn and utilize this language as a tool...not only for forging international friendships and business relationships, but for engaging in outreach to a very broad-minded segment of the global population that has always had a propensity for defying cultural and political divisions - leading to the wholesale persecution of Esperantists under the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and the USSR. Stalin himself derided Esperanto as "the language of spies"; and if that's not enough of a reason for any libertarian to jump at the chance to learn and use it, I'm not sure what is.
Oh yeah, there have also been studies which suggest that learning Esperanto can actually make you better at learning other, more widely-spoken languages too.
For those who are curious, some relevant links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...liary_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaed...e_of_Esperanto
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