Esperanto, One Year With Duolingo | Unu Jaron Kun Duolingo

Hello all. I'm Evildea. Your God.

and today I will talk about

the one-year anniversary of the Esperanto Duolingo course

That seemed a little strange

what happened to my voice?

So, today I just want to talk to you

about the one-year anniversary

of the Esperanto course on Duolingo

because a lot has happened during the past year

and often I see comments

from old Esperantists

who like to complain about things

and they say, "Oh yes there are many people

who've started studying Esperanto

with Duolingo, but really how many of them

will be active in the Esperanto movement etc."

and I just can't understand that attitude

but I just want to now

present my thoughts on the matter

because I believe the Duolingo Esperanto course

or the Esperanto course at Duolingo

is one of the most important ...

no ... not one of ...

it is the most important thing

to happen to Esperanto

in the past few years

and I can say that from several viewpoints

So, first, I'm a vlogger

and I started vlogging

a little before the launch

of the Duolingo Esperanto course

and at that time I was basically the only vlogger

really, there were no other active vloggers

and I stared to do this because

really, I started "to continue to do this"

Can someone "start to continue to do do something"

I don't know

but I continued to do this

because I wanted to make films for the Esperanto community

and little by little I saw

vloggers and lets-players,

who are people that record games

just appear here and there

and now I can name

at least twenty others who

make vlogs and record

video-games for YouTube

and that occurred only during the past year

of the course on Duolingo

of the Esperanto course on Duolingo

because before then, really, there

wasn't anyone else who made vlogs

and lets-plays of games etc.

and I believe and suppose that

I'm correct in this matter

that this has occurred

now because there are many young people

who know and use the internet, and have started studying Esperanto

and have wanted to create material for the Esperanto community

and I'm very happy about this

and also there are a lot more websites which have appeared

In fact, I met with a Duolingo learner

the other day when I was at university

with Dmitry and we were speaking

among ourselves using Esperanto when randomly

another person, who was at the uni

said, "Do you speak Esperanto?"

and I said "Oh, yes how do you know about it?"

"How did you guess that I was speaking Esperanto?"

then he said that he's studying Italian

with Duolingo

and he'd previously explored Esperanto a little

with YouTube. He heard some films

and other things.

In fact, he'd never previously seen me [On YouTube]

So that's somewhat sad

but yes, he'd previously heard about Esperanto through Duolingo

He didn't started learning the language

because he thought no one really spoke it

but now, because he's seen two speakers

in the same location who speak it fluently

he said that he might later check it out

So, that was just a random encounter

and I can say that during six / seven years

of using ... Esperanto ...

That's only ever happened once before

in Switzerland

and I've previously made a film about that ... but she

was an Esperanto speaker ... but that's not important

to the topic of this vlog

but also I during my time

as an Esperanto speaker I've never seen

a new face in the local community.

I was the newest Esperanto speaker and after that

there weren't any other new speakers

but in the past year

I've seen in total perhaps ten new Esperanto speakers

who live here in Sydney

not all of them come to our meetups

they come maybe one or two times

but I've already become friends with them

on Facebook. I spoke with some of them.

I filmed some of them

I feel that the local community

has now come back to life

previously it almost died

and I even made a film about that ages ago

about the slow death of the associations here

and I guess that

the associations will still die in the future

but it appears there are many people

who've started learning Esperanto because of Duolingo

and I've heard of Esperanto speakers who've joined

other associations around the world

taken part in meetups and even

revived some groups etc.

So, I just want to say

- because I know this film

is delayed by a week

I want to say thank you

to the Duolingo team

Thank them in the comment section

below with me

and I just can't wait for

the Esperanto course for Spanish speakers

I really look forward to that moment

when it's finally released to the public

I can't ... I can't study with it

but I know that finally we'll have

a large group of people who

aren't English speakers starting

to study Esperanto from South America

and perhaps ... from Spain, of course

It will be interesting to see ...

F**k, I can't talk this morning

Well, I need to let you know; this morning

for four house, I was teaching English

to several students

Ah, f**k my arm is killing me

I need ... I need to finish

this film off

and now I want to say

I intend to at least once a week

make films about languages

which will be really professional films

but during the other days, every second day

I'll just make vlogs and

complain about things again

because now I have a script writer

Yes, I have a script writer

He'll script my films about language topics

for me ... and I can just make the films

So, finally I have help

So, that is all

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and if you're not there

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and bite you ...