Comments on: International Volunteer Day http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/12/04/international-volunteer-day/ Stories and Resources from Idealists in Latin America Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:25:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian Barker http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/12/04/international-volunteer-day/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Brian Barker Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:18:23 +0000 http://lavidaidealist.org/?p=2910#comment-244 Concerning the comment about Esperanto Your readers may be interested in http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670 A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net Concerning the comment about Esperanto

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]]> By: Bill Chapman http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/12/04/international-volunteer-day/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Bill Chapman Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:40:48 +0000 http://lavidaidealist.org/?p=2910#comment-241 I hope you'll allow me space to pay tribute to the volunteers who teach the planned international language Esperanmto,in their own time and frequently at their own expense. Esperanto hasn't yet gained the recognition it deserves. However, all things considered, it has actually done amazingly well. In just over 120 years, it has managed to grow from a drawing-board project with just one speaker in one country to a complete and living natural language with around 2,000,000 speakers in over 120 countries and a rich literature and cosmopolitan culture, with little or no official backing and even bouts of persecution. It hasn't taken the world by storm - yet - but it's slowly but surely moving in that direction, with the Internet giving it a significant boost in recent years. I'm actually quite optimistic about its future, even if we have to wait a while to see it fulfilled. I hope you’ll allow me space to pay tribute to the volunteers who teach the planned international language Esperanmto,in their own time and frequently at their own expense.

Esperanto hasn’t yet gained the recognition it deserves. However, all things considered, it has actually done amazingly well. In just over 120 years, it has managed to grow from a drawing-board project with just one speaker in one country to a complete and living natural language with around 2,000,000 speakers in over 120 countries and a rich literature and cosmopolitan culture, with little or no official backing and even bouts of persecution. It hasn’t taken the world by storm – yet – but it’s slowly but surely moving in that direction, with the Internet giving it a significant boost in recent years. I’m actually quite optimistic about its future, even if we have to wait a while to see it fulfilled.

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