It's Shatner's World And He Wants You To See It (interview on NPR)

excerpt:

NPR: Mr. Shatner, can you say something for us in your fluent Esperanto?

Shatner: Yes. [Foreign language spoken]. It translates: Is this interview at an end?

NPR: You saw that coming, didn't you? Is that truly Esperanto? Forgive me for not knowing.

Shatner: It's nonsense syllables. But I maintain it is Esperanto.

NPR: Well, we should explain. You did ...

Shatner: I did a movie in Esperanto. ... It was designed to be the language, the universal language of Greek, Latin and German words so that it had the roots of many, many of the existing languages. Everybody could learn to speak it. And so you wouldn't need translators, and you could speak Esperanto to each other, there'd be less misunderstanding. It didn't quite work.

NPR: Didn't quite work out. We should explain so people can find it, it's a 1966 film called Incubus.

Shatner: Yes.

NPR: Kind of a horror film. I've seen clips.

Shatner: Yeah. It was kind of a horror film. Or else it was a horrible film, I'm not ...

NPR: You know, it occurs to me just while I'm sitting here and were conversing in Esperanto, can you speak Klingon?

Shatner: Yes.

NPR: Oh, OK. Just thought I'd ask.

Shatner: Oh, yes, I'm fluent. And when I say fluent it means I spit a lot.

NPR: It's a great spitter's language, isn't it?

Shatner: Right, a spitter language.

More seriously, he also spoke of his trouble with tinnitus in recent years, which apparently he was able to get under control.

~ Becky in Tucson