For those who may be unaware of what Esperanto is, it was a made up language created after WW1 to try and create a universally understood language in Europe to improve international relations.

I have personally attempted to learn it and found it confusing tbh

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  1. No, in what context would educators talk about it? History class maybe, but it never had any significant impact, so why mention it.

  2. It is, after all, the professor thar created Esperanto, was Polish, so obviously he is mentioned in our education.

  3. Jes, kaj mi decidis lerni ĝin ĉar ĝi estas tiom facila, ke ĝi estas kiel ludo. Kaj ĝi funkcias surprize bone. Kompreneble ĝi ne estas perfekta, sed neniu lingvo estas.

  5. I was taught Esperanto in highschool! But it was as part of “alternative to religion”, a subject for those who opt out of religious education.
    It didn’t have any content defined in the laws, so at first we watched and commented movies that posed ethical questions, then we were kicked out of the multimedia classroom so we did Esperanto for a bit, and we ended the year learning logic.

  6. I love the thought of knowing it. But mostly I use it to make obscure joke.

    Like when someone is bragging about languages something is translated to, I always make sure to put it “…and Esperanto?”.
    Or bragging that I write for the only Scandinavian Esperanto newsletter translated to English.

  8. We had like 1 or 2 lessons where we were taught that it existed and failed, and read som texts so that we could see how much we understood of it.

  9. Everyone i know has read 2 lines of it and says “attempted to learn”. Welcome, are you like everyone I know.

  10. We were never told about Esperanto at school, not even in history, I only learnt about it through other research.

  11. Does Red Dwarf count? Otherwise, no.

    I actually think it’s a very interesting language and I just learnt about Interlingua today which I found pretty easy to follow.

  12. If they did it would have been mentioned in passing in like a history class. Certainly not in language classes ’cause, you know, that might have been useful 🙂

  14. Correction: wasn’t created after WW1, first drafts at Zamenhof’s birthday party in 1887, and by WW1 had already achieved significant popularity. Plenty of other auxlangs (Occidental, Novial etc) were created in the post war decade tho.

    In the UK, we’re not taught about it, but I speak it since one of my teachers is an active Esperantist. Good question, I can’t wait to see more answers 😀

    (pardonu mian krokodilon)

  15. No. I don’t remember it ever being mentioned. I mean it might have come up in a conversation somewhere, but it’s not part of any syllabus or course that I’ve ever encountered.

    Languages evolve though their use by large numbers of active speakers and users. Even relatively small language have that kind of evolutionary history.

    Esperanto is was created quite artificially, which is likely why it remained an obscure academic exercise.

  16. Not even that it exists. It is completely irrelevant in the educational system, just like Klingon and Elfish.

  18. Yes, it’s mentioned but we only learn about its existence and what it was intended to be.

    My grandfather knew the language and used it to communicate with his pen pals from around the world.

  20. I discovered its existence by myself when I was like 11, then forgot about it UNTIL my science teacher in hs told us that he was a fluent Esperanto speaker, and tried to give us a linguistic lesson on the language. Shoutout to Mr. Testa he’s retired but I’ll never forget him

  21. I think I really only heard about it the first time by the song “Esperanto” by Freundeskreis 🙂

  24. Maybe a mention that it exists, but long story short non-natural languages are just doomed in every way possible, so they are irrelevant in almost every way.

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