manish Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5552 days ago 88 posts - 136 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, German Studies: Spanish
| Message 41 of 55 13 March 2012 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
I never thought about learning Esperanto before, but I looked through this thread and had a look at Lernu.
I have to agree that it's very addictive. I went through the first ten lessons of Bildoj kaj Demandoj, and I have to say Esperanto is very refreshing in comparison with natural languages (especially the phonology).
Mi estas studento. (lol)
Maybe I'll actually start studying it.
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Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5735 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| Message 42 of 55 14 March 2012 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
Everything wrote:
I've almost finished Assimil. What should I do now ? :| |
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You could try doing Gerda Malaperis again, since you're probably at least at intermediate now.
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You should. The Esperanto community is probably the most welcoming language community out there. Just look at Everything's experience: he got several Esperantists and Esperanto students offering him advice and encouragement.
Edited by Michael K. on 14 March 2012 at 12:54am
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 43 of 55 14 March 2012 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
Everything wrote:
I've almost finished Assimil. What should I do now ? :| |
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That's awesome! Assimil should have taught you around 1500 words, which is A LOT in
Esperanto. Now, all that's left to do is to use the language. Read websites or books,
write messages, start using it in conversations and you will quickly acquire any words
you're missing.
For example, set your browser homepage to http://nunonia.com/ to get a daily
dose of news in Esperanto. More links for using Esperanto can be found at
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=29046 or
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=6353
If you want, I can give you a quick evaluation over Skype. Send me a pm.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 44 of 55 14 March 2012 at 11:20am | IP Logged |
The Esperanto Association of Flanders just made some high-quality Esperanto ebooks
available for free. These normally sell in their online store.
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/flandra_esperanto-ligo/album/179 889
Includes the easy reader "Ĉu rakonti novele?" by Johano Valano aka Claude Piron, which
might be interesting for you, or the translation of "The Count of Monte Cristo". I also
really enjoyed reading "Flugi kun kakatuoj", a historic novel focussing on the culture of
Australian aboriginal people.
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Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4707 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 45 of 55 15 March 2012 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
I have a question.
Where is that guy next to Zamenhofo ?
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5401 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 46 of 55 24 August 2012 at 6:38pm | IP Logged |
I know I've seen lots of negative opinions of Assimil's Esperanto course, but it seems like most of it is complaining about the audio and the first few lessons.
If you look at it without the audio past the first few lessons, is the course that bad?
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5853 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 47 of 55 11 September 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
Everything, On the large photo there are two pictures of Ludoviko Zamenhof on the right and his wife Klara Zilbernik on the left.
Fasulye
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 48 of 55 11 September 2012 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
I know I've seen lots of negative opinions of Assimil's Esperanto course, but it seems
like most of it is complaining about the audio and the first few lessons.
If you look at it without the audio past the first few lessons, is the course that bad?
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Later on it teaches quite a few expressions that I never heard before (sayings) and the
language generally feels textbookish. Once you know the basics, you'd be much better off
talking to people, or listening to Esperanto radio.
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