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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6233 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1 of 8 03 November 2008 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Sometime over the next few months, I'd like to solidify my Esperanto with extensive reading. I'm aware that quite a number of Esperanto books are available online, that there are some large Esperanto libraries, etc, but where do people buy hardcopy Esperanto books?
I stumbled across http://katalogo.uea.org/ earlier; has anyone here used it, or bought Esperanto books online from other bookstores, and if so, which, and how were they? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6167 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish | Message 2 of 8 03 November 2008 at 4:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I've used it a few times. It's pretty good and even to Australia the postage is cheap, probably even cheaper than sending books within Australia. Or you can wander over to Poland next year for the world congress of Esperanto where the UEA always sets up a bookshop. Or of course, if you were to go to Rotterdam you would find that the UEA bookshop is open just like any other bookshop.
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| remush Tetraglot Groupie Belgium remush.beRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6062 days ago 79 posts - 94 votes Speaks: French*, Esperanto, English, Dutch Studies: German, Polish | Message 3 of 8 04 November 2008 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
I used both UEA and FEL. You may also contact an Esperanto centre closer to your location. Where do you live? You may write directly to François Randin, Pf. 246, 1000 Lausanne 22; tel (021) 657 14 55, Fax: (021) 657 14 56; mail address 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5641 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 4 of 8 28 February 2009 at 9:04pm | IP Logged | ||
I am also an Esperantist (I started learning Esperanto in 1991) and I order all my Esperanto books via UEA in the Netherlands. You can really buy all kinds of Esperanto-books there inclusive dictionaries, CDs, just everything that is published in Esperanto. The big advantage for me is the wide range of products and the fact that they don't ask for credit cards. They just send you the merchandise with an invoice included. I would really recommend you UEA. Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 28 February 2009 at 9:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5540 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 5 of 8 02 March 2009 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto seems like an interesting language. I hope that once I have finished with Finnish that I can use my
English to pick it up right away. From my understanding (and please feel free to correct me here) Esperanto was developed by someone living in Germany so the language probably had at least some German influence. It seems like an interesting thing to get into especially because there are speakers worldwide and access to materials on the Internet. Edited by sprachefin on 02 March 2009 at 4:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6233 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 6 of 8 02 March 2009 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Good luck learning Esperanto. It was actually developed by Zamenhof, who lived in Białystok (which was then in Russia, and now in Poland). The root words are much more similar to that of Romance languages than Germanic ones, though it's closer to Germanic ones than Slavic ones - at least judging by the percentage from each stock. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5540 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 7 of 8 03 March 2009 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Looking at its profile, it seems like an interesting and easy language. I'd probably use this as a side language to
learn. Like something that you can learn along with something else. It is very easy to comprehend for me as I have flirted with languages that Esperanto originated from. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zooplah Diglot Senior Member United States zooplah.farvista.net Joined 6162 days ago 100 posts - 116 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: German | Message 8 of 8 09 September 2009 at 5:58am | IP Logged | ||
Well, since you know German, it probably won't be too big of a surprise. To people who come from languages in which words are basic units which can't be combined, it's a bit of a surprise. Even still, there are a few a priori elements in Esperanto (ejo, ingo, ujo, etc.) and seeing a suffix or prefix as a root has got to be a bit jarring for anyone: La ujo eble enhavas aferojn indajn je manĝado (La container might contain things worth eating). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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