101 reasons to learn Esperanto

This article has been posted before on Medium: https://auxlang.xyz/100-reasons-to-learn-esperanto-f5c3d785b380

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1. Esperanto can be learned in about a week up to a month
2. Language learning is hard!
3. Tolkien spoke well about it
4. Umberto Eco spoke well about it
5. William Shatner made a movie using the language
6. Charlie Chaplin used it in The Great Dictator
7. Your country has organizations using it for quite some time already
8. UNESCO supports Esperanto
9. Esperanto events are fucking awesome
10. Esperanto swear words are fucking awesome
11. Muzaiko is actually a cool online radio station
12. Evildea is actually a decent YouTuber
13. Somebody is motivated enough to think of 100 reasons to learn Esperanto
14. It’s really easy to create your own words
15. You can actually express yourself at least as good as in your native language
16. You don’t have to annoy people with the assumption that everybody speaks English
17. You have an easier time learning languages like English
18. You have direct access to native speakers of almost any language
19. You can find free accomodation with Pasporta Servo
20. You can read translations of some of the best world literature
21. Most translations are actually accurate!
22. Most translations are actually readable!
23. You build great friendships for life
24. Denaskuloj! Go out of your mind and make native Esperanto speakers!
25. For the time being you will have a secret language to use with your friends
26. When that is not valid anymore you don’t have any real reason to use a secret language
27. You start actually understanding grammar
28. You will know what a crocodile really is
29. Your bathroom will become much more of a necessity place
30. The USA stops being the center of the world
31. You can pick your fights with the people you talk about themselves
32. You can start enjoying international conventions without interpreters
33. EK and Tajpi are great pieces of software!
34. So is Linux!
35. What is more cool than using your computer in Esperanto?
36. Oh my, you can use a complete Office Suite in Esperanto!
37. We need you!
38. If you need us, we will be there!
39. Seriously, there is a delegate network to help you out with all kinds of things
40. The future is now!
41. You will actually get a better grip on your thoughts
42. You haven’t lived if you have never seen Catalans singing and dancing
43. It’s really awesome to dance La Bamba
44. That is probably not danced as you might imagine it
45. We need more YouTubers, if you are one, please apply!
46. You will learn about so much more created languages!
47. jan ale li wile toki e toki pona a!
48. Ĉi tiu frazo verŝajne estas Volapukaĵo por vi…
49. World Peace!
50. If you are a boy, finding your perfect girl
51. If you are a girl, finding your perfect boy
52. If you are a boy, finding your perfect boy
53. If you are a girl, finding your perfect girl
54. If you are human, finding your perfect companionship
55. You can actually become important fast in the Esperanto movement
56. We are really experienced in finding the best deal for traveling around the world
57. The Esperanto movement is mostly built on young people partying with their friends
58. We really want a better world
59. Really! We hate it every moment war shuts us off from our friends :(
60. If you are a grammar nazi, you will feel right at home
61. if you are really not that great at language, you still can do great!
62. You won’t actually lose much time learning it.
63. You can stop speaking it for years and still retrieve it really fast
64. Maybe you can even start working in other countries!
65. Give the languages you fancy but never managed to learn a head start!
66. There are about 1 to 10 million of us, although it’s really hard to count…
67. There are about 200–2000 native speakers!
68. Native speakers don’t actually speak Esperanto better than non-natives
69. Esperanto Scrabble is much more fun than Scrabble in other languages
70. No moment passes without Esperanto being used in the world
71. You will actually start knowing the cultures of the countries you visit better
72. Nationalities will lose all meaning to you
73. Esperanto will actually be a language of your own!
74. Really, no one decides but you how you use the language
75. Yep, no annoying feeling about how you absolutely don’t sound native!
76. We love boardgames!
77. There are a lot of programmers amongst us
78. Although this list is meant for fun, it actually doesn’t lie
79. You have access to some of the most accurate and still fully emotional translations in the world
80. You can study in Esperanto at AIS
81. You can access Hungarian universities with Esperanto
82. You can get a European Common Framework of Reference graded certificate of your Esperanto knowledge
83. There is a really nice Wikipedia in Esperanto
84. We actually all speak more languages than only Esperanto
85. Yes, often also English
86. No, that’s definitely not guaranteed
87. Esperanto is easier if you have dyslexia
88. Because Esperanto is written exactly how you pronounce it
89. You only have to learn few words to get started
90. Those words are probably already familiar to you
91. There are great Esperanto groups in Telegram
92. There are some great Esperanto groups on Facebook
93. It’s cool to share a list like this about something you didn’t know about until you started reading it
94. World Domination!
95. It’s fun to be able to say that you speak a dead language
96. It’s even more fun if you can actually travel around the world with it and find other speakers
97. Even better that Esperanto was never dead to begin with
98. Actually…
99. Yeah…
100. We are just getting started…
101. And the Duolingo course is great!