
AE 524 – Interview: How Richard Delamore Learnt Esperanto to Fluency Online
Aussie English
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The Origins of the Language
His original idea was not to create say a language where we just got around speaking it. It was to create like this booklet form where you have a language in a booklet and you use it as like a translation guide quickly to write letters. And the original idea was I'll publish this booklet and at the end of the booklet there's this thing that says sign up to this send it to me, if a million people sign up I'll let you all know and we'll all learn it together. Okay so a bunch of people decided well I'm not going to wait for a million people and they just went and started learning it. Then from there it just started growing so we had a few
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