"Lerni lingvon foje estas facile."

Translation: Learning a language is sometimes easy.

[kiddo-depido]

Ekzemple: Esperanton

Malekzemple: La germana xD

Sed cxiu lingvo estas amuza :D

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

Deutsch ist nicht schwer, wenn der Lerner ein Gehirn hat. :Þ

[Salomee_e]

Lernende passt hier besser ;)

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

scheint mir, ich habe kein Gehirn :þ

[Salomee_e]

Das sind nur Feinheiten, die kommen mit der Zeit ;)

[AaronKurz]

Ich finde Lehrer passt hier besser...

[Shady330]

Mi trovas antikva norne tre amuza aux la klingona lingvo mi ne scias kio estas pli.

[PonyDesu]

Kiam la lingvo estas Esperanto.

[rekkofolis]

Could someone explain the difference between iam, foje and kelkfoje? They're confusing me a lot.

[PatriciaJH]

As far as I can tell, the differences involve number:

Iam means once, or sometime; at some unspecified (single) time.

Foje can mean once or sometimes; it's the adverbial form of fojo which means occasion or (a) time, so you can thing of foje as meaning "at a time" or "occasionally"

Kelka means some, so kelkfoje (or kelkafoje, though I see it's frowned on for an excess of syllables) means sometimes or occasionally. :)

Surfing round, I see kelkfoje used as "now and then," "now and again."

All are adverbs.

[Matthew_Phelps]

dankon!

[Hakan_Ahmad]

could someone tell me the difference between:
"lerni lingvon foje estas facilA" and
"lerni lingvon foje estas facilE"
?

[_Venko]

The lesson notes mention that, "After estas, when there is no subject of the sentence, use an adverb, not an adjective." I am not sure the grammatical reasoning behind that rule, though.

[claire_resurgent]

Infinitives and indirect speech are described with -e. Just the way it is.

Esperanto doesn't have many just-because rules, but this is one of them.

[Majklo_Blic]

It's not a just-because rule. Adjectives modify nouns; adverbs modify just about everything else. (It's true in English as well, even if we've allowed ourselves to become a bit sloppy about it.)

[Zovski]

Here's my theory. ESTI is a verb, which is not quite equal to the English word BE. To describe a verb, we use adverbs. The sentence can be understood like that: how does something(lerni lingvo foje) exist(esti)? It(lerni lingvo foje) exists(estas) easily(facile).

[Pac]

It just feels strange because in English we would say "easy" and not "easily"

[Zovski]

Well, then we have to accept the difference between Esperanto and English...

[daniel413850]

Why wouldnt that reasoning apply in other cases? Why does "esti" not get modified when there is a personal subject?

[SquirlRat]

Facila estas relativa :)

[Matthew_Phelps]

level 25?? Wow, that is so very impressive :)

[SquirlRat]

Estas ĉar mi ne trovas lerni lingvojn facile!
(or is it facila here?)

[Matthew_Phelps]

facile! because it's an adverb "easy/easily" modifying the verb "lerni"

[GabrieleTrovato]

Can I say "is simple" instead of "is easy"? Thanks.

[Cavman144]

I disagree.

[Gonczarowska]

Aparte kiam la lingvo estas Esperanto :)

[Davgwynne]

Kiam? Eĉ Esperanto ne estas facila (por mi).