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Video to learn Esperanto  

Is it possible to learn a language just watching a video?

It seems probable, if the language is Esperanto.
After four weeks watching this video about once or twice a week, I heard my 6-year-old granddaughter teaching Esperanto to her babysitter ...

Video's description

It is an adventure in cartoon format. It lasts 77 minutes. Originally it was made for children. But it was already used for an Esperanto course at the Rochester University, in New York State, USA, during the fall semester in 2006.

It is better to download the videos and then watch them on the computer without having to be connected to the Internet. Use the full screen to watch it. The video is in Esperanto only.

Description of available materials

They are on the web pages of the
Esperanto Course at the Rochester University.
This pages are in English only. The videos are Esperanto only. These pages show the video six parts on small windows. To download them, see addresses near the bottom of this page.

      2006
      September  (18KB)   October     (28KB)
      November   (16KB)   December  (7KB)  


To download and read the video text:

The text is in 12 files .pdf with 4 pages on each file. These pages are half size. It will print 2 pages on one side of a sheet of paper.
The text of the video is all Esperanto, but there are some comments in English.

Pages   (scenes)   (size in KB)

01-04 (1.1-1.2) (319)       05-08 (1.3-1.7) (297)
09-15 (1.8-2.2) (448)     (print page 15 from next file)
15-20 (2.3-2.9) (222)       21-24 (2.10-3.2) (208)
25-28 (3.3-3.8) (256)       29-32 (3.9-4.1) (184)
33-36 (4.2-4.7) (177)       37-40 (5.1-5.8) (190)
41-44 (5.9-6.2) (219)       45-48 (6.3-6.8) (232)
49-52 (6.9-6.13) (202)


To download the vocabulary for the scenes:

Memory help (memorigilo) (2324KB)

Scenes (size in KB)

1.1-1.6 (056)     1.7-2.2   (073)
2.3-2.9 (068)     2.10-3.2 (1540)
3.3-3.8 (243)     3.9-4.1   (074)
4.2-4.7 (069)     5.1-5.8   (196)
5.9-6.2 (190)     6.3-6.13 (201)  


Text in Esperanto, to translate to English.

To download the quizzes:   (size in KB)

        1 (111)       2 (97)       3 (109)       4 (111)


Amanda's story, the young lady from California, who visited Esperanto speakers in more than 10 countries during 16 months, without paying hotels,

      in English.   Another version of the same story in Esperanto.


To watch or download the videos in .avi format   (better quality)

Video 1.avi   270 MB     77 minutes     Video 1.mp4   78 MB
Video 2.avi   277 MB     95 minutes     Video 2.mp4   91 MB

"Video 2" are 95-minute files. They have the 80-minute video 2 and the 15-minute video 3.


To watch or download the video from youtube

Parts 01 - 08 make the 77-minute video 1. Parts 09 - 17 make the 80-minute video 2. In part 17 also begins the 15-minute video 3. The total is 173 minutes, in 18 parts. Each part lasts about 10 minutes. These are files between 21 y 24 MB.

        Part 01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09
        Part 10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18



To better your Esperanto pronunciation

Practice and check your own pronunciation.

Proffesor Emilio Cid, instructor
from Brazil, prepared a program called
"Pronunciation Laboratory" ...
But this page is written in Portuguese.
Download the program straight from here:   PrononcoSetup.exe
and install it in your computer.

The instructions are also in Portuguese ... But you don't need them. On the first window, lower right, select a lesson (1 - 5)

To start, press the green little triangle on the left side of the next window. You will hear the Esperanto sentence written on the middle of the window. Then you will have a chance to repeat into your microphone what you just heard. The program will repeat first the voice of the instructor, and then your own voice, so you can compare.

There are 3 icons on the right side:
Microphone: it will repeat the process with the same sentence.
Headset: you will hear the sentence again.
Arrow: it will repeat the process with a new sentence.

On the first window, at the lower left there is an icon to show instructions in Portuguese.

Instructions in Spanish are in this page.

To exit the program, wait for the program to stop and click the upper right "x". Clicking it when the program is trying to repeat or to record, will produce an exit with error.



To listen to Esperanto

Listen to a group of Brazilian Esperantists
reading the book "Gerda Malaperis"

Links to download ...

The translation of the first 3 chapters
in English.

25 mp3 files in Esperanto, one for each chapter.
and some learning materials in English.

All the text from "Gerda Malaperis", its vocabulary
(Vortaro), courses, and something more, are in
the file DktA0004.zip.


Updated by Enrique,   October  23  2008