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Videos to learn Esperanto  

Is it possible to learn a language just watching videos?

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

Description of the videos

      Listen to "Gerda Malaperis" in Esperanto, mp3.

    To improve your Esperanto pronunciation.


These 3 videos are in Esperanto only.

They are animations. The first video 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.


To watch or download the videos in .avi format

The .avi files have better quality. You can copy them into a DVD, and watch them on the TV set using the DVD player.

Video 1.avi   270 MB     Video 2.avi   277 MB

The files Video 1 have the 77-minute first video. The files Video 2 which last 95 minutes, have the 80-minute second video and the 15-minute third video.

Video 1.mp4   78 MB     Video 2.mp4   91 MB

The .mp4 file size is one third the .avi size, but they have lower quality and they work only in computers.

  This video lasts 7 hours and a half

Esperanto, Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo


is a new Esperanto course, consisting of 15 video lessons (of 30 minutes each), intended for individual or group study, plus a 16th lesson with a summary, history and original music. The pedagogically based entertaining story line makes learning Esperanto easier and more fun. Each lesson is presented entirely in Esperanto and consists of three parts: introduction, drama, recapitulation.

You can watch it in Youtube, divided in 47 parts of about 10 minutes each.

    Complete play list       First part of 47

    Complete list by lessons

A DVD version is now available for sale, consisting of 4 DVD disks with 4 lessons each, plus 2 CDs; one with the lesson texts in PDF format, and one of the accompanying exercises, also in PDF format.

To download and read the text of the videos:

Texts for the second and third videos.


To download and read the texts of the first video:
(like a book, with pictures)

This is the text of the first video, 77 minutes. The text is in 12 .pdf files 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)


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.

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


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 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 and 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.

Professor 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.




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Updated by Enrique,   June  8  2009