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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 1 of 4 13 May 2010 at 9:09pm | IP Logged |
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Well, Sprachprofi got me interested in Esperanto, so I started learning more about it. To make a long story short, I have decided to learn Esperanto now, and I'm putting my German studies on hold for awhile. I have decided to focus myself a little more, instead of spreading myself between 4-5 languages. I am going to concentrate on Spanish and Esperanto primarily, and continue with the Assimil French program. I will allow myself to pick German (or Greek or Russian or Swedish) back up once I have 150 hours into Esperanto. I should have a fairly solid grounding by then. And after another 300 hours of Spanish, which should put me closer to basic fluency, I will allow myself to start Portuguese or Italian. I started the Kurso de Esperanto last week, and got to Leciono 4 or 5, when I got to the correlatives. I understand them, but I felt like I was getting "stuck" because I wanted to master that lesson before I went on, and it was a lot of information to digest. I decided to pick up Teach Yourself Esperanto from the library, and have been working through that. I'm on lesson three, and it seems like you get smaller bits to digest at a time, and it's much easier. Although it still goes fast, it doesn't feel like it goes too fast, and I still feel like I'm learning at a solid pace. I found Mazi in Gondolando on youtube, which was kind of cute, too. My kids watched Muzzy for Spanish when they were younger, so I know all the songs the the story. I don't expect I'll spend any substantial time on it, but I might watch it through once or twice. It's really amazing how easy things stick when they're put to music. =) I expect I'll be done with the TY book within a few weeks though, and I've been browsing around for where I should go next. Outside of Lernu, I haven't found a lot of material. Are there websites, books, radio stations, videos, etc anywhere on the net that anyone can direct me towards? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| 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 2 of 4 13 May 2010 at 10:11pm | IP Logged |
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I'm glad you're giving it a try! The most comprehensive resource for learning is still
Lernu, but Kurso de Esperanto and Teach Yourself are okay... keep varying materials in order to see a synergy effect. As for materials for beyond, I wrote up a summary of what I consider essential sites on my blog - the forum software keeps breaking the link, so just go to Learnlangs.com/blog, click on "Esperanto" on the right and find the article titled "For those interested in Esperanto". Also check out the post on Esperanto affix practise; mastering the affixes is essential for becoming fluent. By the way, Google also finds websites in Esperanto, and so does the Open Directory project. Edited by Sprachprofi on 13 May 2010 at 10:14pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Disputulo Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5315 days ago 10 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto | Message 3 of 4 13 May 2010 at 10:17pm | IP Logged |
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I feel your pain, it's hard to find stuff in Esperanto before you know Esperanto :)
There are several ebooks that can be used to learn Esperanto that are available online. I don't remember where I found the one I started using, but I haven't really finished using it either. Honestly, in the US, most learning books are best ordered through http://esperanto- usa.org/ You'll find about anything you need there. As far as radio programs, Radio Verda is great, if infrequent (1-2 episodes per month). Polish radio has a more advanced podcast, and CRI (China's national news service) has an hour-long program every day. Honestly, though, the thing that has helped me the most so far has been learning the essential vocabulary. I have had a lot of help with this because this guy: http://www.xs4all.nl/~pilger/brenttl3.htm went through all the trouble of finding out what the 2500 most common words and word parts are and then went through the trouble of organizing them into small groups. Between this word list and a decent flashcard program (I use www.flashcarddb.com) you should have no problem getting to a solid level of comprehension. Bonan Ŝancon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5401 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 14 May 2010 at 8:04pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the links, Sprachprofi and Disputulo. I am really liking how Esperanto is set up. It seems very logical.
It seems like all the affixes would make things confusing - not in a bad way, just in a "wait - let me figure that word out" kind of way! I like that there's so much flexibility with it, though. I think once I get the hang of it, it will be a lot of fun. Disputulo, I have not tried your flashcard program, but I've been using Anki with a lot of success. Most of the time I keep up with it, but there's days where I don't. It used to be discouraging when I'd come and see I had 800 words to review (for Spanish), but I got to the point where I'll leave it open on my computer all day and come back and do 50-100 of them at a time, and it's not so bad to catch up with that way. The SRS system seems to work really well (at least for me), though. For Spanish, I add about 50 words per day, and sometimes there is a word that just doesn't want to stick. Sometimes I'll see the same word 4 or 5 times in one session, and it takes a week for it to stick. But at some point, it just does. With Esperanto, I've been reviewing Anki every day, and adding in whatever words there are in the lesson I'm working on, some sentences, phrases, all kinds of stuff. Sometimes I add 75-100 each lesson, but if I keep up with it, it seems to be sticking pretty well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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