For beginners, however, the following are probably the best places to start:. But it is very useful—and portable. ISBN 92 This tiny book is a great resource for beginners: We began chapter 3 of the text today and went over some of the solutions for chapter 2. We introduced two new correlative words: In English, we use word order to distinguish subject from object:.
The word order tells us what did the eating the man and what was eaten an apple. Change the word order, and the meaning is completely different:. The -n shows the recipient of an action: We watched the second half of part one of Mazi en Gondolando , where the -n ending is introduced:. Read the first half of chapter 3 and complete the exercises up to praktiko 3. Send me your answers at hoss dot firooznia at rochester dot edu for corrections, or bring them to class. How is your journal going? Have you started it, hmm? Try to use each word in a sentence if you can.
In class we watched part of the first episode of Mazi en Gondolando , an animated course originally developed by the BBC. Read chapter 2 and complete the exercises. Start keeping a journal of new roots or affixes you encounter. You should aim for a minimum of five new entries each day. It is the story of these origins that Aleksander Korzhenkov's biography sets out to tell.
Aleksander Korzhenkov, Humphrey Tonkin, This book is a look back at the beginnings of the Es pe ranto move ment in the US and beyond, opening a window into contemporaneous accounts on the pages of a world-renowned news paper. This volume has been prepared to meet a twofold need. Jabbering on in a sort of pidgin Esperanto , they basically look like plastic bath toys in the shape of bacteria, with tiny arms and big eyes Voice control is no longer a frustrating guessing game in esperanto.
The latest software pioneered by the Q7 can cope with straight talk like Supro, which means "Top" in Esperanto , is based on a new platform and will be targeting youth buyers in the rural market. Why the Greece crisis could be the beginning of the end of Europe …. But if it leaves, then more might too, and the euro might become the Esperanto of currencies: You may as well be writing or speaking Esperanto. Esperanto gave me the capacity to affirm me and to communicate with others. I think that it is appropriate to all the people as well, in particular in Asia". Nan comes from the proximity of Hong Kong.
In she heard in the radio about Esperanto and started to learn it by herself. And that they always expect you to know English, is unfriendly", said the 27 year old lady. Millions of people negotiate and bank and trade in English every day. They must have gotten the hang of it by now. Nichide, 31, studied English for 10 years and has done business in it for nine.
He and his Czech staff sit at a table in their office behind the showroom, groping for the hang of it. I depend on it? Spare part managers Milan Jandak: I'VE been learning English for about 10 years. But take a good look at what we really learn. We may do quite well in those tests and get the various kinds of certificates we want, but when we turn to speaking and communicating -- the language ability that really counts -- we are just at a loss for words, as if we've never learned this language.
If broken English is all what we can learn, we'd rather do without it. Too much energy has been wasted in learning broken English on Chinese campus. November 30, I learned Esperanto two years ago. I had known about Esperanto and during some time I already acknowledged its humanistic philosophy. But I doubted about its efficiency. Also, I didn't wanted to learn one more "dead language". I preferred to learn the Italian language, that language with the pretty sound.
But I didn't have enough time to learn Italian. In the meantime, a friend of mine, who speaks Esperanto, incited me to learn the international language. I refused in the beginning because the mentioned qualities, but later I thought that the best way to know if Esperanto was efficient, it was to learn it. I was surprised to discover a beautiful, rich language, which allows to express all the ideas and feelings, and has a pleasant elasticity.
It is like a language game, it is incredible and logic, and a literary work of art. I have not yet participated in an international meeting, but I already made friends with pen pals all over the world. This language revived my desire to travel and to know people from other countries. I am sure that the effort made by the people that loves Esperanto helps other people to understand our valuable human diversity and the deep union of the human race. Each step towards peace is welcomed. HARLOW, Pinole, California, USA An acquaintance of mine who for some years taught in a school in La Honda, a small community in the forest on the peninsular skyline south of San Francisco, once decided to start teaching Esperanto to her students, but before she did that, she had to get permission of the school board.
So she gave them a long song-and-dance about how much Esperanto would help the kids' English. No one, she later said, was as surprised as she was when one of the Board members approached her on the street one day, and said: My kid is now correcting my English! It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving and Dorcas, who lives in Texas, was visiting a friend in Tahlequah. Tired of turkey leftovers, they decided to grab a sandwich out. As they walked into the Burger King, a young cashier brightened, smiled at Dorcas' companion, and greeted her: The language is Esperanto, invented in the 's by a Polish-born physician who wanted a common second language people all over the world could use to communicate with one another.
Dorcas, president of the Esperanto League of North America, could hardly believe he was hearing it in a fast-food restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma. That was a pleasant surprise. The longtime teacher at Tahlequah Junior High estimates she has introduced at least students to Esperanto -- including the Burger King cashier. As a result of her efforts, Tahlequah may have the largest concentration of Esperanto learners in the United States, where the language is far more rare than in Europe.
The textbook included a brief unit on Esperanto and provided an Internet address for the Esperanto League of North America. How could something this big exist in the world and I'm pretending to teach a language course and didn't know it existed? Magallon was drawn to the invented language because of its simplicity -- there are only 16 rules of grammar and no exceptions. That made it a perfect vehicle for introducing middle school students to languages, she said. He said even young students learning Esperanto can grasp concepts like verb tenses, conditional moods and imperatives.
You don't have to worry about irregularities. With scholarships from the league, she attended three summer immersion schools in Vermont and became friends with Dorcas and other Esperanto speakers. Students also were enthusiastic. Eighth-grader Hannah Blake seemed surprised by her own response to Esperanto. I think I might want to take it again, like next year or something," she said.
Whether that will be possible is uncertain. Swelling Spanish enrollment cut into Magallon's time this fall and she had to drop her Esperanto-only course although she still teaches the three-week unit in the languages class. She does not know what will happen next year, when a proposed realignment may move all the upper-level language teachers to Tahlequah High School.
If so, Magallon said she will plead with the principal to give her at least one Esperanto class, which students could take as an elective -- not to satisfy the graduation requirement for two years of a world language. It's too satisfying to teach Esperanto to give it up. Zamenhof, a Polish-born medical doctor who wanted a simple way for people of different countries to communicate. In Esperanto, each letter has only one sound, and the accent is always on the next-to-last syllable.
There are only 16 basic rules of grammar, with no exceptions. And the vocabulary incorporates many international words such as telefono telephone , biologio biology and matematiko mathematics. Today, at least 2 million people in more than countries speak Esperanto as a second language. Meetings and conferences are conducted in Esperanto.
Books and periodicals are published in the language, and daily radio broadcasts are increasing. Esperanto League for North America Inc. Don't ask me why people in Europe read the California Aggie. That is a whole separate issue. This copy is offered with the permission of the author.
My experience can be summed up as follows: Although I lived in New York and spent an enormous time learning English, I am never on an equal footing with a native speaker of your language. I will never master English as I master my mother tongue and Esperanto. I've devoted infinitely less time to Esperanto, but I always feel on an equal footing with an Esperanto speaker, however exotic.
In my travels, I've had more contacts with average representatives of the local populations in Esperanto than in English. English is OK with airlines, big hotels, travel agencies and business people; Esperanto much better for real contacts with the life of the people. In an international setting, communicating in Esperanto is less tiring than in English or in another national language. Esperanto is structured in such a way that It requires much less effort from the brain.
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Esperanto is easy to pronounce for practically all peoples, even Anglo- Saxons, whereas English is difficult to pronounce for most inhabitants of the planet. English has too many too fine phonetic differentiations, as in but, bat, bet or bet, bit, beat. I remember the laughs when a delegate at the UN pronounced "My Government sinks", before a short pause, instead of "thinks". The inadequacy of English as an international language has catastrophic consequences on aviation. English has many international words with a meaning different from international use.
Think of the plight of Danish Minister Helle Degn who meant to say, at the outset of an international meeting, that she had just taken up her functions and said: It is much easier to be ridiculous in English, if you are not a native speaker, than in Esperanto. So Esperanto is fairer or is it more fair? Of all the foreign languages that can be learned, Esperanto is the most cost effective as to the relationship between effort and ability to communicate. On an average, one month of Esperanto affords a communication level equivalent to one year of another language.
I could list many other reasons to learn Esperanto, including that it's great fun to form freely, yourself, hilarious words that can be immediately understood by people from all over the world, but I have already taken up too much of your time. I have dealt with many aspects of the question in a book, which, unfortunately, exists only in French: Le defi des langues The Language Challenge , Paris: Maybe students who read French might be interested in it. January 30, original in Esperanto If you are thinking that as a young lady, I choose as a husband somebody that already spoke Esperanto, you are going to be disappointed.
Now I am retired, a widow, but long time ago I used to be young, beautiful and an independent woman. Happily, at that time I bought a small apartment in a town near Prague and far from the place where I was born, where I was leaving before with my authoritarian mother. I met a young man, that I liked very much and I thought I could marry him. I decided to introduce him to my mother. Short time before that, my mother gave me an old "Lada" sewing machine, and told me to take a class to learn sewing. Because I was always an obedient daughter, I went to the Cultural center near my new apartment, where they were teaching some classes.
There was big advertisement on the wall, where they announced language courses for English, German, Spanish and also Esperanto. There was also the sewing course. I went to the office and asked the clerk if I could take the sewing class and the Esperanto class. She agreed, enjoying the chance of having a student taking two courses, and then proceeded to fill the registration form.
Then she remembered that both courses were scheduled the same days at the same time. What could we do? She proposed the other languages and started to show their advantages. At that time not many people were interested on learning foreign languages. It was different for the sewing course, for which there were too many students. I thought about that for a moment, and then I decided against her advice. I choose the Esperanto class and promised that I will take the sewing class the next semester. After one month we decided to visit my mother with my boyfriend for the first time.
We were a little uncomfortable, afraid of what could my mother say. But everything was going well, my mother was happy with my choice. Then she asked me how I was doing with the sewing class. I told her the truth, that I was learning Esperanto instead of sewing. My mother was angry and told my boyfriend to tell me to change my stupid decision.
But my dear Karlo then said: I am happy, because we already started to study together, she made the right decision. Even if I was hesitant to get married, now I believed that a man, that stands by my side against my mother, is certainly a good husband. If he had agreed with my mother and insisted that I should learn sewing, I wouldn't think about marrying him.
Having always to be obedient to my mother and then also to my husband wasn't something I was looking after. At that time, Esperanto books were not available in regular book stores. After a few years there was a big party in our family -- our uncle and aunt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
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Our daughter was the flower girl. During the party I was talking about how I choose Karlo as my husband, what made me take that decision. Karlo surprised me, and with a smile, he said: She sewed at home and her three daughters were professional seamstresses. Their sewing machines required constant maintenance and fixing them was my responsibility, leaving little time for my own hobbies, mainly playing music.
The house was full of fabrics, threads, remnants Many of their clients were always around. I didn't like that. That many seamstresses in one family were enough for me. Soon our own daughter started to sew, taught by her grandmother. Our daughter also took a written Esperanto course for beginners, so she could talk with our guests from other countries. I never regretted that when I was young I took that decision. The course and the husband I choose well. Also my mother, who is now over 80 years old, enjoys to participate same Esperanto meetings, because she still has a joyful "green heart".
December 12, original in Esperanto My name is Daniel. Many years ago -- I am not going to tell you how many, so you don't think I am and old man -- I heard something about Esperanto: Some years after that, somebody else mentioned Esperanto. Maybe it didn't success, I thought, because I didn't hear any more about that, neither he had any news about Esperanto. A few years later, by the door of the National University, on a tree on the sidewalk, there was a sign that said: Was it like Latin?
That was a very difficult language to learn. If Esperanto was as difficult as Latin, maybe that was the reason it has not succeeded. I wasn't going to study it, but at least, I knew that Esperanto still existed. Another year went by, and I went to the public library looking for some books, and just by chance, I found a textbook to learn Esperanto. Going through the first pages I started to read the introduction. The author said that you couldn't learn Esperanto without knowing grammar.
That wasn't attractive to me, and I left the textbook on the shelf, and took home a science-fiction book. Once at home I told my son that I found an Esperanto textbook in the library. The following week I visited the library again, but then we went together with my son. I returned the science-fiction book and looked for another. Then my son called me: I found two books about Esperanto here!
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I went there, and was surprised to see several books about Esperanto. I perused them and choose two of them to take home. My son wasn't very interested because he wanted to learn English, but he was willing to help me study Esperanto. I learned the pronunciation and taught him. Later he read the exercise questions and I answered them. He did the corrections, according to the answers on the book.
He also helped me to memorize the table of correlatives. When I finished with the books I returned them to the library and borrowed some of the others. When I finished reading all the Esperanto books in the library, I wanted to read more, but not textbooks, instead books about anything written in Esperanto. I couldn't find them. I searched in another library without any luck. I remembered that almost all the books I had read were old books; the newer one was from the 's.
Maybe I have learned a language that no longer exist. So, I lost only three or four months -- I told myself. One day, after somebody informed me that there was a new search engine in Internet, I tried it to see how fast it was, and to find out how much information it will find about anyone subject. I tried several words, and then I wanted to try something a little more difficult, which word should I search? The first word that came to my mind was "Esperanto"! It showed me a huge number of pages in or about Esperanto.
I started to read some pages. Most were about learning Esperanto, or texts in Esperanto, many of them books translated to Esperanto. My heart started to swing towards the Esperanto side. That way I started to love this language. I wrote some letters to people on the listing, but many didn't respond. Maybe those e-mail addresses weren't working anymore. I sent my own advertising to be placed on the list.
After some time, I received messages from Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, and Colombia, from people that wanted to correspond with me. I was very happy. I also searched the word "Uruguay" together with the word "Esperanto" and found the site from the Esperanto Society of Uruguay. I couldn't believe that. Even in Uruguay, my country, exists Esperanto. I wrote to one of the addresses on the page, bur I didn't receive an answer. I tried another, and soon I received his answer where he told me that they will invite me for the next time they would get together.
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I thanked them, but I didn't expected another letter from them. A few days later I received an invitation for the next meeting. The day of the meeting I was there very early. They received me with an Esperanto greeting, and then they welcomed me in the local language Spanish. Other members of the group were coming. They started to chat in Esperanto. It was a surprise to me, that I could understand almost everything they said. It was the first time I heard anybody speaking Esperanto, and I was understanding almost everything!
That was the proof I needed to be sure that Esperanto is really easy to learn. Still I needed another proof But that I will leave for another day. Daniel Bebelacqua page March 6, original in Esperanto On a December morning in , heavy clouds formed in the sky while the mother of little Jarmila and Ladislav was washing her family's laundry in the cellar. Such work was more complicated then than it is now. For a family of four, it took almost all day and this chore had to be done every two weeks.
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The clock's hands showed She felt a sudden fatigue and unusual nervousness. She began to stop her washing frequently and to look at the door, as if someone were standing there. No, no one was in the laundry room with her, but her efforts to keep working were in vain. Who was thinking of her? Was she going insane? Were the children okay at school? Had something happened to her husband Jan? Was he the one thinking of her?
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She could remain in the cellar no longer. While running through the other parts of the cellar, she convinced herself that no one was nearby. She flew up the staircase to reach her apartment on the second floor. Out of breath, she picked up the telephone and called her husband's office to hear his voice. One of her husband's coworkers answered and spoke in a trembling voice: She was near collapse, without strength, without hope.
Her husband was one of thirty men whom the Gestapo had taken away that day. She did not know the reason. How will we live having been branded "an enemy family''? Will I be able to find a job to support my family with my husband gone? Will my husband return healthy, will he be able to endure everything? If the Gestapo comes for me too, who will take care of the children? Who could answer so many questions? Mom's parents tried to calm her by helping her as best they could in such a bad situation.
Nazism was spreading like wildfire throughout the whole country. Every day more people were arrested for so-called treason. Neighbors and acquaintances were afraid to associate with any family from which someone had been arrested. Many people did not return home and many were taken to the gas chambers. But fortunately, in her husband Jan returned home after four years of imprisonment, although he was sick and weak. He had been punished for typing up antifascist fliers. The Gestapo ordered Mom to pay half the cost of Father's four-year prison stay because he was freed. So our family lost a beautiful concert piano, a typewriter, valuable pictures and all of our savings from the bank.
Six torment-filled years of the Second World War passed. Its aftereffects gradually lessened, things calmed down and the Czech nation began to freely work with all its might, with hopes of a better life in a peaceful world.
However, the shift to a socialist regime brought more difficulties. Small private stores, workshops, small factories were nationalized and the currency was drastically devalued. Mom's brother, who was living in Prague, had problems after his export business was nationalized.
They only allowed him to work as a temporary director until a national committee could select a more suitable person-preferably someone with a working-class origin. When Mom visited him, unannounced, with her children, she found his villa closed up and empty. The neighbors told her that her brother and his wife had fled the country and the house had been ransacked.
The only remaining item was in a corner, under a window: Our family's fear and consternation were awful. Mom's brother said nothing and did not write, for fear of causing us problems.
His parents especially felt the loss of their son. Was it possible that they would never see him again? Would he come home after many years away? In which country was he now living and how was he?
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These and other similar thoughts were constantly in their minds during this long, sad time. In the meantime, Mom's children grew up, finished school and found jobs. Ladislav became an electrician and Jarmila worked in the office of an electric plant. Her coworker there regularly received beautiful postcards, which they looked at together in their free time.
This colleague corresponded worldwide using the international language Esperanto. While looking at the postcards, Jarmila yearned to know where her uncle and aunt were now living. Some time later Jarmila's grandparents received a postcard from Bombay with four words: Their son was alive! But it was undoubtedly his handwriting. Without a return address How could they contact him? He certainly did not write more for fear of worsening his parents "and relatives" situation. These delegates help-free of charge-to solve the problems and requests of other Esperantists. No other association has such a conspicuously organized network of delegates in so many countries.
Looking closer, she found the city of Bombay and the name and address of its delegito. Her interest immediately grew when her colleague agreed to contact the delegate in order to look for Uncle Mirek.