PRESS FEI
The Italian Congress of Esperanto, held in Lignano Sabbiadoro August 21 to 28, this year celebrating the anniversary of the Federation Esperanto-Italian, the body that for the past one hundred years is concerned with the dissemination of Esperanto in the national territory. The
Esperanto, international language, politically neutral, created with the aim of facilitating dialogue between peoples of different languages, thus facilitating the exchange of ideas and mutual knowledge of cultures and ensuring, at the same time, that this exchange takes place at a level fully equal.
Just the issue of protection of linguistic rights within the European Community, now increasingly broad and rich in ethnic groups, will be the focus of the seminars and conferences of this Italian Congress, which was proclaimed as the most multicultural of all time, counting about three hundred members from 36 countries, many from European countries new outbuildings and possible future candidate. The
Esperanto, as a language for international relations, is not intended to replace other languages, but rather to act as a screen behind which other languages \u200b\u200bcan be freely used and developed within individual countries, ethnic groups, etc.. Today, however, the use of a national language as a lingua franca leads to a situation of constant pressure to other countries even within some of the language of national languages \u200b\u200bto be absorbed by the lingua franca. In practice few things in Italy are increasingly being made directly in English, leading to discrimination of the Italians, who do not speak English, and with the progressive reduction of Italian dialect in Europe. At European level this means to divide the citizens into two classes, whereas those also who already speak a Germanic language, as in Northern Europe are more at ease speaking English.
will be devoted to this theme in a series of meetings held by the secretary of the European Esperanto Union, Zlatko Tiŝljar.
But the cultural program of the conference is not limited to the congress theme. There are Esperanto classes for beginners and higher-level, taught by teachers of Esperanto with long experience in many countries, and Anna Lowenstein Grazina Opulskienė, and a seminar on the teaching of Esperanto with subsequent examinations in accordance with the rules of the European framework of reference for language skills.
Tatjana Aŭderskaja and Nina Danylyuk, Ukraine, will speak of topics related to Ukrainian folklore, Roman Dobrzyński Chopin, on the occasion of the International Chopin, Johan Derks and Svetlana Svetlana Milanovic speak instead of educational projects in Africa being implemented by the Esperanto. Davide Astori, a professor of general linguistics at the University of Parma, is the lion's share, with courses in Italian for foreigners, held in Esperanto, with a lecture "But Esperanto is really a language?" and another conference on the ideas of human brotherhood of Zamenhof, the initiator of the language.
will be presented to the public in Lignano the Esperanto culture in many of its facets. Singers and groups such as Jomo, France, Mikael Bronstein, Russia, George Handzlik, Poland, Ĵomart and Natasha, from Sweden, will offer a varied landscape of that culture, unknown to many, that the speakers of Esperanto are creating in recent years.
All this will happen only in Esperanto, and for a week, 300 participants from 35 countries will make a small capital Lignano Esperanto, a language to which European politicians would do well to look between a milk quota, a directive on the curvature of bananas and a beautiful speech on Multilingualism, made in English only.
