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| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5988 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 9 of 17 05 July 2010 at 11:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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Take a look around for the threads with more resources for Esperanto. There are a bunch of helpful websites. Also, I strongly recommend Sprachprofi's Anki deck ("Esperanto101") that is available via public download in the Anki flashcard program. I just finished going through all the cards in it today, and every word in there is very helpful. Edited by doviende on 05 July 2010 at 11:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 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 10 of 17 05 July 2010 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
It probably will be. For Esperanto, don't discard Lernu.net because it's the most complete language-learning website I have ever seen, hosting a dozen different multimedia courses plus resources on grammar and vocabulary and texts with on-click translations for intermediate students. If you register, you can get a free "lingvohelpanto" (language helper), a real person who will correct your exercises and answer your questions. I made an overview of the most important Esperanto resources at http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2009/11/08/for-those-interest ed-in-esperanto/ . Once you're half-way through your course I also recommend working through the affix exercise at affixes/">http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2009/12/30/practise -esperanto-affixes/ . Mastering the affixes is essential for fluency. Edited by Sprachprofi on 05 July 2010 at 1:20pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 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 11 of 17 05 July 2010 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have quite some positive experience with using "Pasporta Servo". I was a guest in Germany, in the Netherlands, in Wallonia/Belgium and in Denmark. I am a sociable person who speaks Esperanto fluently and who prefers having personal contacts with the population in foreigen countries. Host families take a guest for 2-3 days by using Pasporta Servo. Of course it can't be longer because it's about hosting unknown people. The success depends on how good the relationship is between the guest and the guest family.
For me it's easy to make contacts with unknown people and I'm open-minded to any kind of culture, so I enjoy such way of travelling a lot. I haven't used "Pasporta Servo" for travel anymore for years due to lack of money. Only once I made a negative experience, where I was a guest of a working man, who came home late, so I was left alone the whole day long in a foreign city, where I had no contacts. In this situation I felt very lonely. If I use "Pasporta Servo", I want to speak Esperanto all day long (so make use of an "immersion" situation) and I want to socialize and communicate with my guest family. I appreciate, if they give me some guiding in a foreign town or city. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 05 July 2010 at 3:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5446 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 12 of 17 12 July 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
Okay, it took me a while but I finally emailed him today. Thanks! :D ''And now we play... the waiting game'' - Homer Simpson. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| amuzulo Newbie Germany chucksmith.de/ Joined 6312 days ago 4 posts - 9 votes | Message 13 of 17 12 July 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, I thought instead of answering your email, I'd post here to let everyone benefit from it. I spent 6 months travelling through Brazil and Europe in 2002 using it and it worked quite well. I only had a problem in one city... Prague, I guess because the wife of the Esperanto speaker answered and we couldn't communicate enough to make each other understood, so I moved on to somewhere else in the Czech Republic. Also, if you travel long- term, people will tell you, "Oh, you should meet so-and-so in this nearby city." Having said that, Pasporta Servo is a great way to start making friends abroad. I remember going to Taipei for a conference and then discovered all the Esperanto speakers in that city were busy, so I ended up staying with someone from Azerbaijan in a small city called Pingtung in the south... something I never would've considered doing without Esperanto. I could go on and on, but yes, it really is that easy, but you have to be flexible around other people's schedules. Oh yeah, one more thing. There's also quite a difference between staying with college students and families. Typically, the college student will give you a key and you have more freedom, but you end up doing more stuff alone... with a family it's more likely they will want to have meals with you and want you to follow their schedule more... "When will you be home?" I've found both experiences to be quite pleasant though. Also, you might enjoy reading about Amanda Higley's 16 month Pasporta Servo trip and her experiences along the way. http://web.archive.org/web/20060927160513/http://www.tejo.or g/ps/ps/ps_aventuro1999.htm In any case, if you have any more specific questions, I'd be happy to answer them. :) Edited by amuzulo on 12 July 2010 at 9:53pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 14 of 17 13 July 2010 at 6:05am | IP Logged | |||||
I've used it quite a bit and have been getting a lot more out of it than just a place to crash. For example on my trip to Finland I got in touch with local couchsurfers who in turn invited me to the countryside to spend Midsummer's weekend with them and their friends and families. It was a real treat and something that really made my learning of Finnish come alive. There have also been a few instances while couchsurfing in other areas where my host's/hosts' English or French was so bad that it turned out to be more effective to communicate in other languages that I've studied or been studying (e.g. German, Hungarian, Polish) even if I didn't consider myself to be fluent in them. Pasporta Servo from what I can tell can accomplish the same thing but has the "filter" of requiring a certain competency in Esperanto from everyone involved in order to function properly (or at least to distinguish it from Couchsurfing, Hospitality Club or BeWelcome). Naturally the membership pool in Pasporta Servo is much smaller than that of other hospitality networks. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| lackinglatin Triglot Groupie United States randomwritingsetc.blRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5982 days ago 62 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, Modern Hebrew Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 17 31 October 2010 at 2:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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I used it this summer on the spur of the moment at the end of a month long trip in France. I found places to stay in Grenoble, Bern, and Zurich--and that string of experiences ended up being one of the highlights of the whole trip.
I stayed with a retired history professor, who ended up buying me a bottle of Chartreuse Verte, as well as opening up a nice bottle from his wine cellar. Then I stayed with a guy who had, several years prior, taken a year and a half off from life to bike from Switzerland to *Australia* (*not* Austria, yes Australia), and had been speaking Esperanto from 10 years. Meeting him profoundly affected my life. He also saved me; I was stuck in Bern at the last minute, and with just 6 hours notice before, he accepted me gladly--something that I imagine would be rare to find in Switzerland... Nice as the Swiss are, they don't seem to be fond of last-minute planning. ;) The last meeting, in Zurich, was good, but short. I would have spent two nights there, but I got caught in Bern, so... That was that. I also used couchsurfing, and enjoyed the experience... But Esperanto build a bond that is significantly more personal, you know? It's something special. Getting to go around meeting them feels almost like a pilgrimage to your home country, while you grew up in a foreign land, or something. (Perhaps I'm just projecting; I never felt at home in my native land...) It was one of the reasons I learned Esperanto in the first place, and I certainly wasn't disappointed. I remember one of the stories that inspired me was a guy who lived for a year and a half in Europe on just a couple thousand dollars and Pasporta Servo. Spoke it like a 'denaskulo' by the end, I hear. I think I copied the story somewhere on my blog at one point, if you search it: randomwritingsetc.blogspot.com Best of luck! 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7126 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 16 of 17 31 October 2010 at 10:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is so incredibly cool.
I have no particular interest in Esperanto in and of itself, but this is just awesome. I took a homeless dude to breakfast once and he told me this long story about a secret society of hobo artists who would gather on street corners and under bridges and trade their drawings and poetry and collaborate on projects and stuff. I suspect he was largely making it up, but this kinda reminds me of that. Esperanto is like a secret travelers' code. Whooooa. Who knows, by the time I get to a satisfactory level in Turkish, this may have worked its way far enough into my brain that Esperanto will be on my hitlist. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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