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China Travel Tips, China Travel Advice and Connecticut – Hour 3 – PGW Radio

Uncategorized — on June 29, 2009 10:27 am

On June 27, Peter was broadcasting his radio show from the Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. His guests in the third hour include:

J. Maarten Troost, author of Lost on Planet China, and why we need to take another look at China.

Bill Faude, author, former curator of the Mark Twain House, has facts and figures about CT that you won’t believe!

Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Lanugages. There are over 900 invented languages and she knows them all.

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  • http://www.esperantolobby.net Brian Barker

    Concerning Arika’s new book

    I think that the choice, realistically, for the future global language lies between English and Esperanto, rather than an untried project. As a native English speaker I would prefer Esperanto.

    It’s unfortunate, however, that only a few people know that Esperanto has become a living language.

    After a short period of 121 years Esperanto is now in the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide, according to the CIA factbook.

    It is the 17th most used language in Wikipedia, and in use by Skype, Firefox and Facebook. Native Esperanto speakers,(people who have used the language from birth), include George Soros, World Chess Champion Susan Polgar, Ulrich Brandenberg the new German Ambassador to NATO and Nobel Laureate Daniel Bovet.

    Further arguments can be seen at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.

    A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net