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Sprachprofi
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 Message 9 of 13
04 November 2011 at 4:02pm | IP Logged 
Indeed, I'd say 50 hours is plenty. The exact factor depends on what languages you
already know of course, or whether you learned a foreign language before.

If you don't mind a bit of a struggle, you can even start immediately by reading a
novella in Esperanto: Claude Piron wrote "Gerda Malaperis" specifically for this purpose.
At http://en.lernu.net/kursoj/gerda_malaperis/1-1.php you can read it and
click on any unknown words to get an instant translation. It's much nicer than the old
grammar-and-a-dictionary method that Tolkien used to learn Esperanto. After you have
completed "Gerda Malaperis", I would follow that up with another easier-than-average work
or a parallel text, and then you're set to read whatever catches your interest.
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Cabaire
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 Message 10 of 13
04 November 2011 at 5:20pm | IP Logged 
I dabbled three weeks with Assimils Esperanto and read one of those easy novels of Claude Piron (La malsana kiso). After that I could tackle normal literature without problems (I believe I started with Ende's La senĉesa rakonto)

Learn to read is a piece of cake, if you already know some European languages.
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Michael K.
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 Message 11 of 13
05 November 2011 at 5:35pm | IP Logged 
Great, thanks Sprachprofi & Cabaire.

I'm on lernu so I'll try "Gerda Malaperis" when I get the chance. I tried some beginner courses on lernu, and got through a lot of Bildoj kaj Demandoj, but I've never found any learning material that I really liked or got excited about. I think the Assimil method spoiled me, with the recorded dialogs and all, but unfortunately Assimil Esperanto isn't in English, and I've heard it's not too good.
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hjordis
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 Message 12 of 13
06 November 2011 at 10:02pm | IP Logged 
That sounds like a great idea. I don't have books in as many languages or about as many countries, nor should I be buying more books, but this thread did inspire me to take all my unread foreign language books as well as some English ones that I've been wanting to read and order each language by difficulty and interest then take three from the top of each language and put one by my bed one by the couch and one in my bag. My reading speed is too slow in all my foreign languages to get 25 or maybe even 10, but I'm going to make myself finish 5 at least! And even more next year so I can maybe buy new books at some point without feeling guilty.

Edited by hjordis on 06 November 2011 at 10:03pm

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Michael K.
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 Message 13 of 13
31 December 2011 at 4:32pm | IP Logged 
Just wondering: how is your reading going?


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