Want to learn a language, but also you straight up suck at languages? No problem! Want to couch surf with randos from around the globe? We've got you covered! Want to develop your linguistic learning capabilities and try out the newest hipster craze, all while promoting the ultimate goal of world peace? Sounds like you're the "perfekta kandidato" for the lingua franca of tomorrow (maybe): Esperanto!
Sources:
Articles:
https://zamenhof.info/en/biografio
Foreign Language Training (US Department of State website)
https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
About Esperanto (Esperanto USA)
https://esperanto-usa.org/esperanto/en
The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto (commented by Don Harlow, 1995)
https://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/105/Esperanto16.pdf
Why A Universal Language Will Never Be A Thing (Jason Koebler, Vice, April 2016)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezpvx4/why-humans-dont-have-a-universal-language
Esperanto (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, August 2019)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Esperanto
Linguistic features of fragrances: The role of grammatical gender and gender associations (Laura J. Speed & Asifa Majid)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-019-01729-0
Gender Reform in Esperanto (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reform_in_Esperanto#Gender_in_Esperanto
Videos:
Learn Esperanto first: Tim Morley at TEDxGranta (TEDxTalks, Apr 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gSAkUOElsg&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
The Transformative Vision of Esperanto | Esther Schor | TEDxRoma (TEDxTalks, July 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHQCk46IvI&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
Esperanto Explained (Human Interests, July 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJWVOkdWQAs&ab_channel=HumanInterests
Tim Morley - “Springboard to Languages” [EN] - PG 2017 (Polyglot Gathering, Dec 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It-2X-dfEv4&ab_channel=PolyglotGathering
The Ten Most Spoken Languages in the World (James Lane, Babbel Magazine, Sep 2019)
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/the-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world
Esperanto : A Language no one Owns | Giridhar Rao | TEDxMahindraÉcoleCentrale (TEDxTalks, Feb 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHV1dNDGG4&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
Audio:
L.L.Zamenhof and the Hope of Esperanto (Stuff You Missed in History Class, Mar 2021)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sDRB3y4yHLDwisUQC6vFC?si=iPa4BgypRvem0Qb1NwDzSg
Esperanto (Out of the Ordinary, Dec 2018)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pXJPQd5lHkBw2qHIr1eXx?si=inOXW_lFQAu6M5i7WOBwXQ
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R5vQepOOuhbu1Bmp2EfVC?si=OnSBbNnPRHKhY7ca33KtTA
