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Hello, and welcome back! This is the second part of my series about what it is like to be a native Esperanto speaker. Just to get you into the mood I start with two little gems: I am so native that I started walking during an Esperanto event, and even my first word was in Esperanto: vidu! As the tram was passing by I pointed at it and said: look! So, let’s dive in and entangle even further the sometimes challenging relationships of what languages I use and with whom.
As established in the previous blog post, my father was French, and my mother is Hungarian. It made sense to them that when we are together, we would all speak a language that everyone understands. My father never learned Hungarian – if you are unfamiliar with it, Hungarian is considered to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. My sister was not a native Esperanto speaker. How is that possible? Legi plu