cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5842 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 1 of 7 27 July 2009 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
I read somewhere that there are some great Esperanto resources online.
But as usual on the internet its really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff (hope I'm using this expression correctly.. :-)
If any of the Esperanto learners have a few seconds, would you mind summarising the REALLY WORTHWHILE Esperanto links for me?
(I am a complete beginner and want to check it out because I believe in the ideology behind Esperanto)
Edited by cordelia0507 on 27 July 2009 at 8:15pm
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theallstar Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5806 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes Studies: Japanese, Esperanto
| Message 2 of 7 27 July 2009 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
I think www.lernu.net is pretty cool.
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awake Senior Member United States Joined 6640 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish
| Message 3 of 7 28 July 2009 at 2:35am | IP Logged |
Lernu is an excellent starting place. They have numerous free courses for
beginners and intermediate level users of the language. I think you can even get a tutor for some of the courses
to correct your work and get feedback/help in learning the language. In addition to the courses section, there
are some great resources in the learning section (including thematic vocabulary groupings with flash card style
drills and a surprisingly useful picture dictionary). Also there's a very friendly forum with a lot of people eager to
help newbies, answer questions, etc...
Lernu also has a pretty good Dictionary, but another, probably more comprehensive, online dictionary can be
found
here
You can find an interesting apology for Esperanto
here
There's also a nice, free computer program for windows and linux which has some nice drills for some of the
more challenging aspects of the language (like the accusative -n ending) available
here
Here you can find a very good (old but still
good) textbook designed to teach esperanto.
And you find find a solutions manual to the exercises for the above textbook
here
Here is a nice CD (mp3's actually) you can use for
listening comprehension.
And Here is a CD you can download to get a
good grounding in how the language is pronounced
Here's a small collection of free esperanto literature available online. If you study Esperanto diligently for a
month or two, you'll be surprised at how accessible a lot of Esperanto literature will be to you (you'll be able to
read just about anything if you have a dictionary handy).
here
Hope that's useful :)
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cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5842 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 4 of 7 28 July 2009 at 2:53am | IP Logged |
This is amazing! Thanks so much!
I can't wait to explore these links.
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7150 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 5 of 7 28 July 2009 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
Thank you, Awake, for those links. Lernu automatically comes up as a home page when I log on to the Internet but I wasn't aware of some of the other links.
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awake Senior Member United States Joined 6640 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish
| Message 6 of 7 29 July 2009 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
You're both welcome :) Here are a few more links that may be of interest when you're at a bit higher level in the
language.
Here is a link to a pdf file of PMEG, the "Plena
Manlibro de Esperanto Gramatiko" (Complete Handbook of Esperanto Grammar). It's written completely in
Esperanto (though in very simple, straightforward Esperanto). For most esperantists, this is the go to book for
answering questions about the language.
Also useful, and interesting, are the Lingvaj Respondoj (Language Answers) written by Dr. Zamenhof himself as
answers to some questions that came up about the language in its early days. They can be found
here
There are other Esperanto podcasts, of course, but probably the most popular is
Radio Verda
A nice video course (immersion style, like French in Action - though quite a bit more silly) is available on
Youtube
here
Here are some works of a well known Esperanto
Author
And there's a collection of Esperanto Music available for purchase (with many free samples) available
here
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yar Diglot Newbie United States bytetrash.blogspot.c Joined 5591 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Korean
| Message 7 of 7 08 August 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
I found lernu.net a great resource. Not only does it have a dictionary and great lessons, but you can connect with other Esperanto speakers around the world. I had an Esperanto penpal for a while. It was great!
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