What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?

i feel like this is a descent question i guess.

  • garrettw87@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you’re curious…
    “Mi” - pronoun meaning I/me
    “lernis” - learned (The root is “lern-”. The following rules apply to all verbs: “-i” is the infinitive form, “-is” is past tense, “-as” is present tense, “-os” is future tense, “-us” is conditional tense (kind of like could/would), and “-u” is imperative/command form.)
    “Esperanton” - obviously Esperanto, but the “-n” suffix denotes a direct object.
    “ĉar” - because
    “volas” - (verb, present tense) want
    “havi” - (verb, infinitive) to have
    “amikojn” - (noun, direct object, plural) - root is “amik-”, the “-o” suffix denotes a noun, “-j” makes it plural, and then the “-n” for direct object again
    “en” - in
    “ĉiaj” - all
    “la” - the (this is the only article in the language; incidentally, there is no indefinite article)
    “landoj”- countries (“-o” is noun, “-j” is plural)
    “de” - of (there are actually multiple words that can mean “of” but that’s another topic entirely)
    “mondo” - world

    The letter “ĉ” is pronounced like “ch”; Esperanto doesn’t do two-letter phonemes because one of its foundational principles is one letter = one sound.