"Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?"
Translation:Do you speak Esperanto?
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mi ne parolas Esperanton multe, ĉar ĝi estas la rekta objekto/because it's the direct object.
How do you pronounce this, my volume does not work. I want to ask people this to show the that Esperanto is real.
Generally, there are a lot of spoken phrases in Esperanto (and many other languages) on Forvo: Esperanto pronunciation dictionary. There aren't many whole sentences there, though.
You can hear this specific sentence in this YouTube video.
So there is an exception with planned and dead languages... I really thought there were no exceptions at all in Esperanto!
"Esperanto" as a language is capitalized only to differentiate it from "esperanto" - "one who hopes".
No, it's not specific to planned and dead languages.
Some languages have names of their own (with -o), but not just those. "Urduo", for example, is also a noun.
Do we capitalize all languages (and only those languages) that have a name in Esperanto?
If you it look up in the on-line PIV, the entry for the language is "urdu/o", with a lower-case letter. Similarly with "amhar/o" for Amharic.
I tend to capitalise languages and similar cultural adjectives and nouns, at least sometimes, at the suggestion of Bertilo Wennergren, to indicate that it's a cultural term rather than a "core" part of the vocabulary - so if someone doesn't know what "li estas Buruŝasko" means, at least they can guess that it's probably a national designation rather than a word they might be expected to know. But that's not a must and many people don't capitalise such words. Though "Esperanto" is often capitalised.
On example where it may help is "Tio estas Kuba domo" (this is a Cuban house) vs. "Tio estas kuba domo" (this is a cubic house).
Nur konsciu, ke multaj eble demandos vin kial vi skribas "Mi parolas la Anglan" aŭ "li estas Franco" kaj ne "anglan, franco".
...ĉu mi ĉiam skribos "whether I will always write..."
...ĉu mi ĉiam skribu "whether I should always write..."
"mi skribi" is just wrong.
Yes, exactly!
It is either one or the other. Both are good translations of the Esperanto sentence.
Ne.
Esperanto is one of a handful of languages that have a name (ending in -o) rather than using an adjective (ending in -a) with lingvo often understood.
An alternate way is "cxu vi parolas Esperante" "cxu vi parolas hispane"i n imitation of slavic syntax.
