The thing about Esperanto is that it was never intended to REPLACE natural languages, but to SUPPLEMENT them. If I remember correctly, the original idea was for people to learn it as an intermediary language, to make trade and diplomacy as efficient as possible.
My problem with esperanto is that i find it ugly and weird sometimes. Esperantido or just IDO is an Esperanto derived that is a better alternative but nobody speaks it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@gorilaogorila835 Ido has a treacherous "Benedict Arnold" type past. The guys who promoted it to a European commission were supposed to promote Esperanto to that same commission, and were entrusted to do so, but egotistically did a bait-and-switch and presented their own blackboard language project.
Modern English is the way it is because it's already been more simplified than any other contender. Chinese is tonal. Nobody's ever going to learn a tonal language as an adult. Spanish has gender... which is as big a roadblock as tonality when being learned as a second language. Modern English is not tonal, and has lost all it's tricky gender BS specifically because it was already simplified centuries ago when an influx of scandanavians settled in England who had to learn Old English as adults, and simply dispensed with all the silly bells and whistles. Modern linguists fairly agree that if English is not already the global language, it's the only real contender to become one.
+Aidan Bowie Not just cause it's someone's native language do they prefer it. I for example speak more English than Spanish even though Spanish is my first language. I will always prefer English over Spanish cause English is such an easy language to learn and a great one overall.
+Patrick Melody English is not simple at all. Every single spelling and pronunciation rule is broken in at least one way, and there are WAY too many irregular verbs.
Geoffrey Brunell Bruh compare it to many other languages like French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Irish, Russian, Arabic, etc. English is a really easy language.
FuriousGaming I'm learning Spanish right now, and I have to say that it is a lot easier than English. It's sound-audible, which means that words are pronounced exactly how they are spelled, unlike in English when you have words like "dough", "through", and "tough" which. There are also less irregular verbs and less grammar rules than English.
In the far future, I can see English as the only language spoken by humans beyond Earth. For example, if we ever go to Mars, the first colonists will all have to speak the same language, which will probably be English.
1:52 that’s not actually true. Spanish and Mandarin have more native speakers than English, but English has the most total speakers (which imo is more important)
Say that to Germany. Once we had a great, for normal Germans not understandable Dialect called Swabian. But the German Government is exterminating our great dialect. only 20-40% of the dialect are left. I would rather speak English at any other part of Germany than speaking only the "normal" German.
Josh Edwards Going down the road we are heading everyone will have google translate built in their brain. So it will not matter what language you speak!
actually, chinese is a language, but really just a generalisation of the different dialects like mandarin and cantanese. I learned that from my mandarin teacher, it surprised me for sure.
Actually, Mandarin IS Chinese. Other Chinese languages and dialects are still valid Chinese languages, but Mandarin, literally by name (Mandarins were officials, ergo Mandarin means "language of the officials") and cultural role within China, is the language of governance of China, and therefore is Chinese. Wu, Yue, etc dialect families are also "Chinese", but the "Chinese" of the Chinese state and cultural glue that keeps its provinces together in a single nation is Mandarin In any case it's complicated and not really clear cut as saying there is no "Chinese" language.
The problem is that some languages use TOTALLY different writing styles than others. For example, English, German, and French look a hell of a lot different than Arabic, Mandarin, or even Russian. If every language used a Latin alphabet, things would probably be a whole lot simpler. English isn't that hard to learn if you already speak a Germanic or Romantic language. Yeah there's a lot of complicated rules, but the thing with English is you can absolutely *butcher* a sentence and native speakers will still understand you. In some languages a slight mispronunciation could mean the difference between telling someone you like their outfit and telling someone you want to sodomize them. English doesn't have this problem for the most part. Not only that but the only real way to learn a language is by communicating with a native speaker, and English has *a lot* of native speakers, and many, many sources of media. My Dutch friend learned fluent English in two years just by watching a ton of movies, reading some books, and browsing the web. That's all she needed. So English has that going for it too.
This is primarily why I love english so much. Even someone who is not very good at it can still communicate. The butchering of sentences is easier to translate compared to other languages.
+Unbearable Pain The Cyrillic alphabet is not that different, if you think more. English is way easier than Mandarin, because in English, there are more accents, and some might pronounce some words different, but still you can understand them. In Chinese, you could call your mother a cow, if you don't know how to pronounce it. :)
+Jason Mey ik vermoed dat hij aan Engels dacht. Wel grappig dat ik zonder al te veel moeite je reactie verstond. Welke taal is dat? (te lui om het in een vertaalmachine te stoppen)
Well, the point of an international language is not to replace the local language in favour of a lingua franca. In the Netherlands, children are taught English, but they only ever use it to communicate with others who don't speak Dutch. In the Netherlands, Dutch is still spoken by the large majority of the people. Lingua franca are instead meant as a second language for everyone. You're not asking the Spanish to sacrifice the Spanish language, but instead, you're asking them to learn a second language so they can communicate with non-Spanish speakers. Also, Esperanto is perfect for this role; after a few months, you can speak Esperanto just as fluently as English after a few years of learning. I can already speak B1~B2 after just 4 months. With English, it took me 2 years to get to B1+. Note: English has both Germanic as Romance aspects, as the French brought their language with them in 1066 and made English into a hybrid. Thanks to this, speaking English makes Esperanto quite a bit easier.
+Kriso de la Erikejo it's simple to dutch to learn english because english and dutch are similar languages but for a person like me that speak a latin language it's more difficult, the main problem for me is that english pronouciation is different from what you write, the enourmus number of verbal constructions and the phrasal verbs that are far too many
Connor Neely english also uses words from every other language, so technically, english was made from everyother language, and i dont think lets say italians would agree to re-learning words we stole from them
I think governments should try to promote a second, universal, language like esperanto or even english. Codys right, we won't see anything happen in our lifetime, but there should be a "turn to" language that people who chose to deal with people who know other languages can learn. I guess English kinda is that language right now, but it should be made more "official."
+Rev. SockTrooper120 WAR GENERAL it needs to already be established, hence, English is taking the lead as most of the world...generally speaking..uses English as their most known second language
Norwegian, a shitty language which no one speaks, as a portuguese native speaker, I can say, no one would ever want to learn such a different language, Latin languages and english are okay...
Ingliš wud bí a lot ízír tu lýrn if wí júzd a mór fonetik alfabet, wiđ a dairekt korespondens bitwín đe speliň and đe pronynsíeišon. Obvíusli it wudn't pýrfektli sút evriwonz spítš ól đe taim, byt wud stil bí a dárn sait ízír đan at prezent. Laik if jú kan ríd đis and agrí!
+Mihoz Mapping Technically, if you were born in America, then you are a Native of America. So I could call myself a Native American and still be of pure European decent. So yes, we are Americans. (waves 'Murican flag with right arm and a bald eagle rests on the other arm)
+Alper T. To get pedantic, he's referring to his specific dialect of English. Or haven't you noticed how when you install an OS you get about a dozen versions of English to choose from?
Also, if for any point there was a single language, I believe local slang would evolve into dialect and then separate languages as Latin did into Spanish, French, Italian, etc. so a global language would be temporary at best.
I'm still speaking a German dialect, but 80% of the words that a normal German would not understand are gone. Some of my friends use only 1% of the left 20%. Dialects will not work in the future.
With the world getting smaller and smaller the only thing that might allow dialects to become languages is the sun destroying electricity on earth. People in Germany used to have really different dialects but now that pop culture only uses a single dialect, kids staring to speak roughly the same kind of German and I'd imagine that it would be the same for other countries as well.
miniwars123 Unless it was secondary. A secondary global language could work. Just get everyone to know English as a secondary language (unless they know it as a primary), and you're done! We don't need to speak to every human on earth in their native language. We just need to speak to every human in a language they understand.
I reckon that Esperanto should be taught everywhere as a secondary language; IT IS increadably easy to learn due to its fixed grammatical rules which contain no exceptions. What is more, it wouldnt be forcing a foreign culture upon other people
1985: UNESCO encourages UN member states to add Esperanto to their school curricula. Well, looks like only China and Hungary listen to them. Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Esperanto
@@augustfranfrankrike9548 If anything, that would encourage people to pick up a 3d language. The simplicity of Esperanto makes it easier. So you have your native language, esperanto because it’s easy and practical, and, say, Japanese because you like anime, or French because you like the way it sounds.
Since I watch youtube a lot and play video games a lot I pretty much hear more english than my own language in a day... In my country you now have english in school from 2nd grade of primary school on... My language uses more and more english words in slang and some of them have made it into our dictionary... I don't think that my language will survive another 100 years...
***** Within more or less than a generation people in Turkey couldn't understand Ottoman Turkish from the beginning of the 20th century after the Republic of Turkey was formed once the Ottoman Empire fell after WWI, the Turkish language was romanized (meaning it stopped using the Arabic script it had used for centuries in favor of the Latin alphabet) and turk-ized (the linguistic authority of Turkey cleansed the language of many of its Perso-Arabic influences it had gained over the centuries in favor of Turkic originating root words). So, the idea is not so far fetched is just this kind of change had to be highly motivated from within and outside of the government and its people!
***** Maybe I overexaturated it maybe it wont happen in 100 years, but, yes obviously everybody still speaks slovenian right now, but the thing is that in the last generations pretty much everybody knows how to speak english, because you learn it in school... As I said english words are slowly comming in, specially with the younger generations... If nothing else our language will sound more like english in 100 years than it does now, I would never replace my language in everyday life with english or any other, even though I use it a lot... If english starts to take over the world as offiial language one day, Slovenia will probably be one of the first countries to take it...
Interestingly, some believe that Orwell based Newspeak on Basic English. I don't like Basic English at all, but I still think it's a little harsh to equate the idea of making a language easier to controlling though.
@@joshuaswart8211 Orwell had a relative who spoke Esperanto, but Newspeak clearly is based on politician's English. Newspeak does not distinguish truth from propaganda, just like English doesn't distinguish know from know, justice from justice, only from only, right from right, you from you, free from free...and a word like "sanction" can mean the opposite of itself. Esperanto is easy because - like German - it relies on consistently combining wordstems with prefixes and suffixes rather than having separate words to memorise.
+Bpinator Esperanto! You can learn it in about 2 months, English in 4 years. So you would waste the whole worlds populations time if you had them learn English instead.
Esperanto would be the best. It's way simpler to learn. If you think about the numbers, only 10% of the world speaks English. Since English takes so much longer to learn, it would take way less time for the whole world to learn Esperanto, than 90% of the world to force everyone to learn English.
The idea is not to have a "Mother Tongue" replaced by another language. The idea is to be Bilingual, with a commonly recognized language used for international discourse and the Mutter Sprache at home. History has shown that people will employ violence to retain what they learned as children.
correction: "abandoning one's own language to speak the internacia lingvo" goes against everything that Esperanto stands for. The idea is to be SECONDARY auxiliary language for everyone, and for everyone to continue speaking their native language at home
Teach English as the secondary language in all schools across the European Union and it would grow in power through one generation hard enough for other nations to have to follow suit. Nobody says you have to forget your native language, humans are easily capable of speaking multiples of them.
What if we just, from now on, start teaching everyone English. As a Dutch person I know a lot of English, at least enough to hold a decent conversation. I think that soon, everyone will be bilingual.
I agree that English is a VERY important language, but there are countries with many languages inside their borders. Imagine being able to speak with someone from around the world, but not being able to speak with someone from your own country? XD
Make it an international responsibility to raise children as bilingual in both their native tongue, and Esperanto. It wouldn't be an immediate shift, but over the course of just a decade, we could have one diffinitive widely known lingua franca. Even if not all people knew it, it still would be the biggest step to finally uniting the world under something.
+ethan finley "International Responsibility" doesn't mean enforced education. It would benefit people to know 2 languages anyways. It is easier for bilingual people to learn another language. Esperanto is a combination of some Slavic and Romantic Languages meaning it would also help with other forms of language education.
+ethan finley a responsibility is not enforced. It would be up to the parents to take the recommended actions to teaching their children a lingua franca.
rome spoke every langauge just like they accept every religion rome was an empire that knew how to assilmilate by accepting everyone except jews and christian because a single god was a joke
rome required all peoples under them to learn latin and only allowed the greeks to speak greek because of how vast thier language soread was before them. modern European languages hail from lattin because rome forced its language on people. and as for accepting others, you need to read up. they built temples to thier gods in every province and destroyed competing religions. hell they even destroyed the greek religion by adapting it to thier own
lol you clearly dont know anything the adopted all gods into their temples want proof easy they adopted the egyptain gods into their pantheon and they never forced a language on anyone because for one it would be impossible because they didnt have schools for everyone those who learn latin were held high but mostly those who spoke Latin where legionaries slaves and traders and emperors and senators. bro if you wanna argue we can for days because Rome is my hobby. and clearly your uneducated because for one they were they were accepting because if you don't you fall and that's what Rome was good at accepting religions and languages. number 2 we have writing in Rome of other languages from traders and other senators. the languages based on Latin are Spanish french and English but mostly Spain and France because that's were roman legionaries were for so long.
It won't be a single language. It if were to happen, it would most likely become Esperanto. Esperanto is simple and easy to learn. It is easy for everyone to learn. Cultures will keep their languages, but everyone would just be fluent in another language. Again, highly probable that it will be Esperanto.
I'd place my bets on either Esperanto or English as a secondary language, with Native English speakers knowing Esperanto. This would be the most efficient way to create a global language.
Rose Knight Yea. A secondary language may very well be entirely possible. But to say the whole world will be monolingual in English is a long stretch. Even if it were to be English, It would only be English until the American economy collapses. The world is just a game.
Dillon Flatt I suppose. I guess the most likely would look something like this: Primarily English Speaking Countries English Esperanto Primarily Non-English Speaking Countries Your Primary Language Esperanto/English This way, everyone should be able to communicate with everyone.
Rose Knight Yea. I think having English along with Esperanto to be the most widely used 2nd languages would be the most realistic. As long as we can still cherish eachother's cultures and languages respectively, I would say the world is fine.
***** Languages like Esperanto are only going to get stronger the more we share it. The more we make people aware that Esperanto is the future of Foreign Relations and Global Communication. There could be a future, but it's the doubters that are holding us back.
The idea is not to abandon your native language, but to learn a second universal language. Esperanto is probably the best choose in this case. It's very easily to learn and already has a globe acceptance. It already is a global language without any one country's language having dominance over any other countries'.
As someone fluent in both Swedish and English, I can definitely say that the higher word count in English does not make it more descriptive. The languages seem just as descriptive. English seem to have a lot of slang words, dialectical words, loan words and meaningless synonyms.
Osvath97 English doesn’t have a higher number of words than Swedish. Swedish has an infinite number of word because words get combined into new ones. Compare Centralstation in Swedish and central station in English. That english is more descriptive is something the guy just pulled out of his ass because he’s probably some ignorant monolingual American.
I wouldn't say that the synonyms are meaningless. Consider the various words English has for things of greater size: big, large, huge, massive, enormous, gigantic, etc.. Even in my listing, there's a definite order to them, as well as some having a connotation of connected weight. When English was raiding other languages and making off with their vocabulary, it did something interesting; instead of replacing words, they took on a more subtle distinction alongside any other words carrying a similar meaning. This, as someone who may not speak English natively, seems redundant, but to a native English-speaker, each one has its own 'rank' in mind. For example, a 'big dog' can just be somewhat above-average in size, but an 'enormous dog' may have to look down to meet your gaze, and a 'massive' dog would be far above average in size, but also have a lot of muscle (or fat), giving it above-average weight as well.
@@morriskaller3549 that is why german is the language of most social science, by mixing and matching they create any kind of word and and I love it meanwhile us romance languages dont have that kind of thing English took a middleground between romance and germanic languages only keeping the most basics thing, which isnt a bad thing, it's the perfect second language imo, I would be on suicide watch if I was forced to study something like german at school, I was also forced to study french and it was hell, english went waay smoother I'm not saying I am good at english but at least I can manage to write something people can sometime understand
English is easy for a native english speaker, as Mandarin is easy to native mandarin speakers. English, however is not easy for native mandarin speakers just as mandarin is not easy for a native english speaker.
+Sam Kužel I've never understood people who think English isn't logical. Maybe it's because it's the only language I'm fluid in. But it's always seemed to be quite beautiful in the way it all works and fits together.
English is my second language and it's pretty easy, especially it's grammar, When compared with other languages it's really simple. It's writing is kinda weird but the grammar really makes up for it.
daDuke42 good luck teaching it to the people from our country THAT DONT EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH...... *cough* Hawaiians *cough* also, how is your language any better? I could agree that your version is better if you were from Canada or Australia, but you're clearly a Britt.
Damn it's pretty impressive how Americans could create the internet and the app you're using right now without language. God damn we must be smart as fuck.
I've noticed that people who grow up in monolingual places seem to worry much more about this issue. I grew up in a bilingual area of Canada, with both French and English in constant use, and now live surrounded by immigrants speaking hundreds of languages. In some countries, such as the Netherlands, you are expected to be fluent in three or four languages. Ordinary teenagers I met there spoke to me in excellent English and not bad French. A friend of mine in Prague was quite comfortable speaking four languages when I first met him and has since become extremely fluent in Spanish and picked up bits of some others. Most people I met in rural Africa could speak several languages. My Czech friend and I have both noticed a phenomenon in Europe --- if two cars get into a fender-bender collision in Belgium, and the driver of one is Bulgarian and the driver of the other is Swedish, they will get out and start yelling at each other in English. That's a true "lingua franca". Not everyone lives in Kansas.
+Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. How is English easy? Pretty much every single spelling and pronunciation rule is broken, which means you can almost never know how a new word is pronounced just by reading it. English also has a crap ton of irregular verbs.
A language in which ghoti can be read as fish (gh like enough, o like women, and ti like emotion) is NOT easy. Run is pronounced /ran/ and rune is /ru:ne/.
+Geoffrey Brunell Because most of other languanges have shit which beats your spelling and irregular verbs. We for example have 13 ways of conjugating verbs, 4 ways of conjugating adjectives, 15 ways of declinating nouns - with quite a few exceptions...
Geoffrey Brunell You're absolutely right. But it's not like English has a ton of different vowels to choose from. There's plenty of subtle difference such as in "read" and "bean", but that's mostly due to English well rounded pronunciations. I agree with you, but I think it's not that big a deal because of the simplicity of English grammar.
Felipe Vasconcelos Haha, true. But when does "gh" ever appear at the start of a word in English? I'm not sure but isn't "gh" a mutated "ch" from German/Dutch? Ex: [EN] Laughing [NL] Lachen [GE] Lachen - or [EN] Sought [NL] Gezocht [GE] Gesucht. It's definitely inconsistent and ridiculous nowadays, but it probably made sense in the past... blame the French.
Bailey Holmes There are so many "rules" for English that only apply some of the time. Like "I before E except after C," for example. There are still words like Neighbor that don't follow this at all. I mean, some _native_ speakers have a hard time with it, imagine what it's like being an _adult_ trying to sort it all out.
hardest rule about English: no rules, yet you still can brake them :) Learn every word's prononciation and spelling by heart (or let auto correct do the work for you) the usual irregular verbes are always a little pain and foreigners can fuck up the use of tenses quite easily.
Hexx i 100% agree. ENGLISH IS DUMB. but thats besides the point. actually no it isnt ENGLISH IS DUMB i never get tired of saying that. but yeah, i after e is 10% usage and even in words where they apear after c, e gos first. ENGLISH IS DUMB italian and other latin based languages may have masculaine and feminine suffixes? i guess you could call it? but their phonetic, follow all thier rules, and only use words from other languages IF THIER BUSY and even then, they have rules they follow for them as well...
Or we just wait until a global language has evolved? I myself am a native dutch speaker. I learned french and english and understand some basic german and afrikaans ('cause dutch...). If everyone just knows 1 language (spanish, english, french, russian or chinese) other then their native tong, the world would be for more easier to communicate with.
Yes, and most people go full english because of that... I speak portuguese and english, I live in Brazil. Literally the most influential language here is english by far, even with most of our continent speaking Spanish, we most of the time really don´t learn it because we can communicate with our Spanish counter parts easily if we talk slow... That is why english is already the international language, whether the french and the Spanish like it or not
why not just have schools teach 2 languages to everyone as they grow up? you would have your common tongue and then a universal tongue. (like english or esperonto)
Here in Greece we are taught THREE different languages at schools : Greek, English, and either German or French ( Four if you count ancient Greek that is very much similar to modern Greek ) AND THEY ARE ALL OBLIGATORY.....
The Yellow Zombie Rules here in pak you are though all those,our national language,our native language and more....you get off luck,oh and continuing the asian trend if you don't get an A+ you'll get disowned
There's a simple solution that you're al missing. We all speak Klingon -new language -everyone would be on fair ground when speaking it -it'd force future Klingon teachers to show Star Trek in class for "educational purposes" -nerds have already devoted their lives to speaking it. Other languages that would work: Elvish Hottest Rodian Shyriiwook(Wookie)
Exactly. When it comes to conlangs, there are two general types: artistic, and auxillary. Artistic ones (artlangs) aren't made to be spoken, they're made to sound beautiful or cool for some form of world. Auxillary languages (auxlangs) are designed to be super simple to speak. They can be beautiful or cool, but that is not the primary purpose. Klingon, Sindarin, and Quenya, for example, are artlangs; they weren't designed to be easy, they were designed to be authentic and cool-sounding. On the other hand, languages like Esperanto, Ido, and Interlingua are designed to be easy to speak. Though they do sound very nice, their goal was simplicity.
@@sbevebren1642 I'm not sure what you mean. French is a romance language. English is a germanic one that adopted a shedload of French words in the wake of 1066
Why do you think that a person must be told to abandon their native language in order to speak a global language? Why can't they use their native language in their daily life but use the other language for international communication?
Dude, if they are not 'obligated' to learn another language, chances are, they won't. Humans are lazy, for a non-native speaker to learn a second language in adult life, is pretty hard, even if you pay them, most will give while learning it. Some humans are great at learning, others well, not so much
Programing languages are based on English. You can't use English to communicate with computers. There are even some languages that didn't based on English at all.
Why would anyone need to give up their language? Everyone speaks at least 2 languages after all. Just let them have their mother language, and teach them the global language too. No problems at all.
I get where you're coming from, but we don't. here in the states at least most people know only English, and only want to know English. I myself have always wanted to learn a language, so im taking Russian, but im the exception.. nowhere near the norm.
Let the world be sans lingua franca. All men will breath free again, reclaim their past, present, and future. My metal gears will be the common thread that binds all men together, in equality. No words will be needed.
Spoiler: The Senate will ask your monarch to kill himself. If you don't agree, the Civil war will start. Rome was first to be conquered after the war began.
Not everyone speaks it, it's not the most spoken language in the world, and in Africa the language they use to speak between them local languages. (except countries where British is the official language)
English is a fucked up language: "Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough -- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!!"
In my opinion the best world language would be a constructed one like Esperanto. I do learn Esperanto in school and it's really not hard at all as long as you put a bit of effort into it. The problem with English or any other non-constructed language is that a native speaker will always be better in telling his ideas than someone who speaks English as his second language. It is also complicated to import all traditional and cultural things into a language that is not the typical language of these tradition. With a constructed language everyone would have the same chance to tell his ideas and support his opinion. But on the other hand I have to agree that I'm writing this in English because it is the most used language at this time and spreading a language that nobody speaks natively would be hard.... By the way my mother tongue is German :)
There's actually different sign languages across the world. Mind you, they share some same signs so they're more like dialects, but the thing with sign language is that across the globe different deaf schools and people created they're own sign language independantly of each other until it got standardized fairly recently in the 20th century. With globalization, of course they got closer, but they are still different.
Spanglish is the best for unifying English and Spanish speakers. Plus it is more wide spread than Chinese, which is only spoken in (most of) East Asia.
Spanish is also only widespread in the Americas. In Europe, only Spain speaks Spanish so it's not widespread there. Only few speak Spanish in Africa and almost no one speaks Spanish in Asia.
+Vanpyro Gaming yeah, because most words in Portuguese or in French pretty much sound like English words with twists, for example: Violência in Portuguese is Violence in English.
So if many countries talk english makes the language big, why didint you touch on german? German is Spoken in: Germany Austria Switzerland Luxemburg Lichtenstein Parts of Belgium Parts of Hungary Parts of the Chzech Repuplic parts of Poland so yeha
You're completely missing the point. An auxiliary language such as Esperanto is not a replacement for the natural languages spoken by natives around the world, it's used as a bridge for people that would not otherwise have any way to communicate. Getting rid of all languages but one would be a terrible cultural loss and would limit the entire world to one frame of mind: the one of the language. And on top of that you're missing a huge point in this video; the difficulties involved in learning a second language. English is not an easy language to learn. People will spend years studying English and still stutter and mess up word order and forget about connotations. At that point you may well be able to communicate to some degree but the message will come across incorrectly. Studies show that if you study Esperanto for 150 hours you speak it better than someone who's studied English for 2000 hours. A language such as Esperanto however does not suffer from this issue. In Esperanto you can use the word order of your native language and people will still perfectly understand you due to how logically the language is structured. You can create entirely new words to describe extremely complicated concepts that would be mostly impossible to phrase in a sensible manner in almost all languages in the world knowing just one small root word and a few affixes. English may sure be the language with the most root words but that only serves to further complicate the language. In Esperanto you don't need to know the word, you just make it, and everyone will understand you. So to conclude, English is an awful candidate for an international language, not only because it's biased towards the 5% minority of native speakers but also because of how ridiculously difficult it is to learn as a second language. Thank you for reading if you made it this far.
The standard dialect for a language is often determined by those who hold political and economic authority. It follows that a global language would also follow this trend, being determined by the strongest and most economically powerful nations. There would also be a sense of patriotism so people of different nations would push for their own language. From the standpoint of which language is the easiest to learn, English is quite complex. Mandarin may lack an alphabet, but there are no plural forms, no conjugation for tense (like French, German, and English) and no gendered nouns (like in romance languages). Ultimately I agree with idea of creating a new, neutral language. This could be used universally, but I hope that it wouldn't completely replace all languages.
Nobody capable (intelligent enough, educated enough and modest enough) is going to create such a new language before Esperanto has dozens of millions of users as proof that the new language is wanted
The US and British ones are the funniest to me. They really capture the countries personalities. Ones a powerful, soulless superman. The other is a stuck-up, intelectual has-been.
While I agree that no country will willingly abandon their tongue, that's not the point of a global language. The idea is a language that everyone has and can learn, but not necessarily have grown up on. If we used a manufactured language, we Americans can still teach our young to speak English, the tongue of our people, and still teach them an artificial language in school that all people speak. The issue isn't really getting the countries to ditch their languages, more to get them all to agree on a language and have it be taught to the public so we communicate with everyone
"Therefore, the question of an auxiliary international tongue has the utmost importance. Through this means international education and training become possible; the evidence and history of the past can be acquired. The spread of the known facts of the human world depends upon language." - Abdul-Baha, Baha'i Faith
Esperanto Shall Be Written in 2018 by Jonah eli bowling Esperanto! Esperanto! Harmony in our name! Guide everyone, With every soul, And unite and break the cage! Languages, we can't understand, Esperanto, hand to hand, L.L Zamenhof, Wished that shall we be one! Now let's fulfill, his dream a ton! In our name, We shall won! Esperanto, esperanto! Esperanto Shall be! Ev'ry soul, United with one!
English is actually a pretty terrible language, at least to learn as an adult. Although languages such as Spanish and Latin have more complex rules to learn and it can be somewhat annoying to master them all, the key difference is that they usually follow their rules, with the exception of a few irregular words. Meanwhile the English language has basically no consistency and breaks its own rules constantly, making it particularly annoying to take as a second language. For this reason, making the English language the official "global language" would not only be a pain but horribly impractical compared to, say, Italian.
English is like the modern equivalent of Latin (although it's a Germanic language, which makes it superior!): It's so complicated, and so widely spoken, that it'll fracture into many regional dialects (called 'accents' for some reason) that will eventually become entirely different languages. I hope the Internet won't prevent this.
English would be so much better if rules didn't have irregularities and the pronunciation was direct (ie. say it how you see it, I mean even Finnish does that). The grammar is easy to learn but unfortunately you also need to learn all the anomalies which is a big let down for the language.
Smeetheens How is it superior because it's Germanic? Aren't Germanic languages infamous for having nonsensical rules and pronunciations? Esperanto is a much better candidate
+Harbard come on, it is not the language of that corrupt pedophile church (not originally). It was the language of the mighty Roman Republic/Empire and it is awesome. Too complicated to be a global language, though. Fucking cases...
Not to sound whiny but the proposal of English as a universal language is very eurocentric. Languages are tied to cultures and to many, erasure of one means removing another. Even if it's just as a second language, you're forcing the idea unto the whole world. It's like colonialism again. If we're going to go with a common language, why does it have to be English, why does the rest of the world has to spend their time learning a second language while English-speaking population can stick to just one language. Please remember many English or European-language speaking population today from Asia, Africa and Americas were forced to learn the language, in fact some of them even had to remove their culture. -I was born in former English colony, all of us are required to learn ESL.
Farisss92 That's a good thing. If your culture is dependant only on language then your culture SUCKS. I don't know any other language but I can garuntee that if you threw a newly invented language at america and had all children learn it nothing would change besides the fact that everyone would hate us for causing yet another detrimental devide THAT SERVES NO PURPOSE and HAS NO REASON TO EXIST IN MODERN SOCIETY FOR ANY REASON EVER.
English is definition-based and rule-based, Chinese (as family of language) is pictorial or analogically. The loose (or lack of) grammatical structure, and the optional nature of time, quantity, gender, etc. in Chinese makes translation Chinese-English extremely difficult Why I argue Chinese is a family of language is that e.g. Mandarin Hokinese shanghainese Cantonese speaker couldn't understand each other without years of learning. And as a result of the pictorial nature of the Chinese language family, the same phrase or word can take up different meanings, and the same concept are often expressed with different words in these languages Speaking English and Chinese requires vastly different mindsets- and by extension between Indoeuropean and Asian language system. This is something I still found very challenging in my everyday work. So it'd be very Euro-centric to imagine a global language based on a language from the Indoeuropean language system So as to give you a few examples of what I mean: "你吃過飯了沒？" (you eat already rice already or not?) = "have you eaten (lunch/dinner) yet?" -- "是的，還沒吃" (yes, not yet eat) = "no, I haven't" Notice the following features: 1. there are significant redundancies in Chinese language- but as it is a pictorial language, redundancies are necessary rather than something wrong - some even argue that there is no such thing as "double negatives" in Chinese, as the two negative words used would reinforce each other to give an overall negative meaning 2. There is no tense. The concept of time has to be conveyed by using a range of dedicated words that can loosely be translated to "already" 3. The subject can often be implied. This is partly caused by Chinese being a contextual language which permits many details to be left out 4. Some argue the concept of "yes" and "no" in English does not exist in Chinese language. The closest translation to "yes" would be "true/affirmative" and the closest translation to "no" would be "not true/not affirmative"
