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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6250 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 1 of 21 25 June 2007 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
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What is Esperanto? Why should I learn it?
Quick video introductions to Esperanto Article by Claude Piron (polyglot; translated professionally between 5 languages for the United Nations) My personal answers to some of the most common criticisms about Esperanto My detailed answer as to what reasons there are to learn Esperanto Also be sure to read the other forum members' experiences in the Language Learning Logs dedicated to Esperanto, a lot took it up for the 6 Week Challenge Courses for Esperanto The best course around right now is probably "Ana Pana" at Lernu, an 8-lesson course with sounds, interactive exercises, free tutors etc. Teaches somewhat few words per lesson for my taste, but you can go through the lessons very quickly and pick up more words from original material or from the continuation course "Ana Renkontas" afterwards. Tutors are available for free. If you know German, I can really recommend the course I used to learn Esperanto. It can be found here. It has 10 lessons, which are quite extensive. A free tutoring service is also included. After completing this course, you should have a very good level of Esperanto, since it teaches not just all grammar but also a lot of vocabulary and each lesson has two lesson texts. On the down side, there is rather much grammar taught very quickly: the first lesson presents almost all basic grammar for passive knowledge already, later lessons elaborate and actually teach it and past lesson 5 the grammar sections are mostly just revision. Another down side is that this course was developed for teaching through mail or e-mail, so there's no multimedia. If a lot of people are interested, I could probably make recordings though. If you like Assimil-style sentences with translations and few explanations, Lernu's "Vojaĝu kun Zam" is for you. If you are a fan of the "direct method" where you don't use your native language at all, use the "Bildoj kaj demandoj" course at Lernu. If you aren't fluent in any language besides English yet, or if you don't know grammar terms well, there's a nice textbook for you at here. I like that it teaches grammar slowly and explains it well for people who never heard of terms like "noun" and "adjective". It also teaches a good amount of vocabulary. It doesn't come with sounds or tutors, but if you choose to use this course, you can contact me with questions. Be aware that this course was created many years ago, so some words or expressions taught are rather strange. A computer program teaching Esperanto can be found here. It teaches grammar and basic vocabulary and it contains sound files, songs, dictation exercises and the like. Tutors are available, too. What I dislike about this course is that it never goes beyond the sentence level - texts would help seeing words in action better. If you are looking for a Pimsleur-like audio-only course, "Jen nia mondo" is for you. Unfortunately this one is not available for free, you have to buy the CDs. Once you have some very basic knowledge of Esperanto, you can also just dive into the language by reading Lernu's Library(hover over any word to see its translation or definition, that way reading even 30% unknown texts is doable), Esperanto forums (the Lernu forums also have this nice hover-look-up function) and chats or this comic strip in easy Esperanto. If you want a really quick introduction to Esperanto in just 2 hours or so, have a look at this quick and dirty guide or these lessons. If you want to get down and dirty with Esperanto, there's an entire grammar course based on swearing and sexual words in Esperanto: http://mindprod.com/esperanto/dirty.html Native materials for Esperanto - practise the language Library of online books in Esperanto - the "originala literaturo" index is for works originally written in Esperanto, "tradukita literaturo" is for works translated to Esperanto. Another library of online books in Esperanto "Fajron sentas mi interne", great original Esperanto novel "Gerda malaperis", novel for beginners turned into a course, with vocabulary on hover Bookstore by the American Esperanto League - scroll down to see the categories of books Bigger online bookstore of Esperanto books (situated in the Netherlands) Open news magazine Chinese online newspaper in Esperanto Online magazine featuring mostly news from the movement Canadian radio station broadcasting in Esperanto, possibility of listening online Polish radio station broadcasting in Esperanto, possibility of listening online Samples of various Esperanto bands (full-length legal mp3s) Homepage of Pasporta Servo Big online community in Esperanto - find Esperanto speakers near where you live Random joke generator in Esperanto Index to some online games in Esperanto (scrabble, crosswords, hangman, etc.) Funny video sketches in Esperanto, similar to Youtube Esperanto television (currently down) More links Edited by Sprachprofi on 11 August 2007 at 6:00am 18 persons have voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6985 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 21 09 July 2007 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
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Has anyone seen an English translation of Gerda Malaperis in English or even better, an Esperanto/English parallel text? I know the English vocabulary is in the course, but I haven't seen a straight translation.
Is anyone aware of an mp3 recording of El Eta Princo (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery? Edited by luke on 09 July 2007 at 9:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 21 09 July 2007 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
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Great thread, Sprachprofi.I plan on learning Esperanto in the future so all this information is great.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6250 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 4 of 21 10 July 2007 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
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If you are interested in learning Esperanto vocabulary in a really fun way, try the free software called "Knuckles in China" (get from http://www.kicl.info or http://www.learnlangs.com/knuckles/KnucklesSetup.zip ) and download the basic Esperanto word list I created from http://www.learnlangs.com/knuckles/Esperanto_bold.clv.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6985 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 21 28 August 2007 at 8:44pm | IP Logged |
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There is a neat little Esperanto film at dailymotion.com.
Here is another short creative video called Esperanto. It contains several languages. Here is an interesting comprehensible input method based on a story. It has some real audio too. Edited by luke on 26 September 2007 at 6:47am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6926 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 6 of 21 10 October 2007 at 2:07am | IP Logged |
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Here is the web address to listen to a radio broadcast in Esperanto, broadcast and renewed each week in Australia. I think it is broadcast from Melbourne. It can be heard each Monday at 1300 Australian eastern time, hence the file name. The file is renewed each week with each new broadcast, so you will need to save the file with a different name each time.
http://www.3zzz.com.au/rmFiles/MON13.rm It broadcast for Australian listeners and contains local as well as general news from around the world about the Esperanto world. Edited by fanatic on 10 October 2007 at 2:09am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6985 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 21 17 October 2007 at 8:51pm | IP Logged |
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Andras Rajki's Esperanto etymological dictionary is handy for finding the origin of many roots.
You can read the notes at the bottom of the page above to see how he made his decisions about etymology. I wrote a little program to count the word origins and came up with this: French ------ 2382 English ----- 2154 Italian ----- 2023 German ------ 1635 Latin ------- 1403 Russian ----- 1289 Lithuanian -- 1250 Polish ------- 852 Yiddish ----- 293 Greek --------- 20 Spanish -------- 9 Dutch ---------- 3 Aramaic -------- 0 Hebrew --------- 0 This list of high frequency roots can be used in conjunction with the other page to focus on making an etymological link in your head with the most popular word roots. The 2500 Basic Word Roots of Esperanto with translations is a longer list. It is split up according to "frequency groups". Edited by luke on 18 October 2007 at 6:57pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6025 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 21 02 November 2007 at 3:28pm | IP Logged |
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I downloaded text version of La Donaco de la Magoj from
http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Noveloj/magi.h tml and audio from http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php/Audio-Book/LaDona coDeLaMagoj However, two do not match. Does anyone know where I can have both the text and audio version with same wording, so that I can shadow it properly please? Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful |
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