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What is Esperanto?   To learn Esperanto   (Menu)
Esperanto is a language, a planned language.

Esperanto is the easiest language to learn, because it was planned to be easy to learn.
Esperanto was published on July 26, 1887. It is 135 years old, as of September 2022.

Here you will find links to pages to learn and to practice Esperanto.
Podcasts are very useful to get used to the sound and the structure of Esperanto.
Please listen to Esperanto, even if at the beginning you do not understand.
After a while you will start to understand spoken Esperanto.

How Esperanto was originated:   (Click here)

Should I translate to English when reading or speaking in Esperanto?:   (Click here)

Some facts:   (from answers to many similar questions)   (Click here)

There are two main uses for Esperanto.  

Unintended use:


Esperanto is a logical language with few rules and no exceptions. Learning it offers a good base to learn other languages. It helps to understand grammar, and it is learned in a short time compared with other languages. It should be the first language to learn, to save time when learning other languages.   (Read more)

Main use:   Esperanto is a language to be used the same way as other languages, plus a few other advantages.

Most languages are useful in one or several countries or regions. Esperanto is used in most countries. People that learned Esperanto, did so, to contact people from other languages, other cultures, other countries. They want to contact you. Some of them would offer their houses to you for a visit, or for a short stay.   I have already spoken in Esperanto in   31 countries.

    https://amikumu.com   This free application for the telephone, will help you find Esperanto speakers near you, as long as they have registered to use this application.

    20 Reasons to learn and use Esperanto.   This web page is part of my vast site about Esperanto.

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To learn any language:

No matter which is the language, all 4-year-young children around the world, are fluent with a reduced vocabulary, and without knowing the meaning of the word "grammar". After fluency they keep adding new words. For Esperanto, 500 word-roots are enough for fluency.

Learning Esperanto:

There are many ways to learn Esperanto online:
  (Partial listing)

  Zagreba metodo,    by Zlatko Tišljar.   Learn 500 word-roots, enough for fluency.
  A new approach,    by William Auld. (1965) (in English)
  ¿Sabe Usted Esperanto?,     book by Jorge Hess. (in Spanish)
  Júbilo Online Course,     (in Spanish)
  Remush Course,     (in Esperanto)
  Kurso de Esperanto,    by Karlo Pereira, from Brazil. Choose one of 30 languages.
  Duolingo  
  Lernu.net  
  Edukado.net   Resources for Esperanto teachers, but lots of materials for students.
  Mazi.   Animations to learn Esperanto.   (77 + 80 + 15 minutes)
  Esperanto, Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo.   Videos.   (7 hours and a half)
  Easy readers,    for beginners, with limited vocabulary.
  More books  
  Podcasts
 
  Songs in Esperanto  
  Affixes, pronouns, prepositions, correlatives, prefixes, suffixes  (listing)
  PMEG, Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko,  by Bertilo Wennergren.
  Bibliotekoj   Libraries
  Vortaroj   Dictionaries
  Aktualaĵoj   Current affairs
  Some benefits of using Esperanto.   Dr. Márkus Gábor books
  Lists  
  To learn other languages  


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The Zagreb Method,   by Zlatko Tišljar.   Learn 500 word-roots.     (Menu   Top)

    This book exists in many languages. Here in   English    Spanish    Esperanto 

    The purpose of the Zagreb Method is to teach the 450 most frequently used word-roots, to quickly get fluency by using a small word-stock.  Listen while you read.  It has 12 lessons, and also other 3 lessons and 6 songs.

    The Zagreb Method Interactive,  by Georg Jähnig. April 2016. Esperanto in 12 days.
(in more than 20 languages, click the language on the upper right)

Point to any word to find its meaning  in English.
Click the 3 dashes above to the right to: Choose one of 12 lessons. In the appendix you will find lists of: correlatives, prepositions, conjunctions, affixes, prefixes, suffixes.
Miscellaneous: Important idioms and phrases, colors, numbers, days of the week, months, seasons. Here you can also choose another language.
When you finish with the 12 lessons, return to the "Book" to study the other 3 lessons and the 6 songs.

    12 + 3 Facilaj Tekstoj kaj 6 Kantoj,   with sound.     Text:   in English     in Spanish

    More books,
readings, word lists, tools to help with writing.


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A new approach, by William Auld.   (Menu   Top)

    Esperanto, A New Approach .  (pdf, 100 pages)  by William Auld,  is another book with the purpose to reach fluency in a short time. It is complemented by
    Paŝoj al Plena Posedo,  by the same author.


¿Sabe Usted Esperanto?, libro de Jorge Hess. (In Spanish).     (Menu   Top)

    The book online.   Very complete, beyond basic Esperanto. (in Spanish)
    Lesson 16.  The participles  are very well explained in lesson 16.
            Read all the Esperanto, the first half of the lesson.   The rest is in Spanish.
    Lesson 21.   The ending -n.
    Lesson 22.  Esperanto history, poems, and other information.
    Lesson 23.  Prefixes, suffixes, prepositions, correlatives, book contents.
    Lesson 24.  Vocabulary. The words used in the book.

You can download the book in .pdf format from any of these 2 sites:
                  pdf1      pdf2


Curso en línea de Júbilo,   en español       (Menu   Top)
    Júbilo es de Vancuver, Canadá, Anteriormente de la Ciudad de México


Curso de Remush,   en Esperanto       (Menu   Top)
    Clicking underlined words will show the meaning of that word in several languages:
eo: Esperanto. Ra: word root. de: German. ca: Catalan. en: English. es: Spanish.
fr: French it: Italian. la: Latin. lt: Lithuanian. nl: Netherlands. pl: Polish. pt: Portuguese.
ru: Russian. yi: Yiddish. OF: use frequency.
    1000-word Eo-Eo vocabulary     Bold type words are more frequently used.

Plurlingva vortareto:  (vocabulary in several languages)
    By alphabet     By frequency of use
   

La Akademia Vortaro,  Esperanto Academy Dictionary, compiled by Bertilo Wennergren
Reta Vortaro  online dictionary.


Kurso de Esperanto, by Karlo Pereira, from Brazil.   (Menu   Top)
    Kurso de Esperanto,  is an Interactive course, with sound: pronunciation and a few songs. You may download it (13 MB), and install it in your computer. It has been already translated into 30 languages. You may study by yourself, or you may  ask for a tutor  to correct your homework.


Duolingo.   (Menu   Top)

Lately Duolingo became very popular. They started the English version on May 28, 2015 and the Spanish version on October 26, 2016. By April 14, 2018, there were 1,300,000 learners registered for the English version and 349,000 for Spanish version, more than one million and a half in total.

    Duolingo,  Learn Esperanto.


Lernu.net   (Menu   Top)
    Lernu.net is the most ambitious project to teach Esperanto in more than 30 languages, for all levels.
Lernu.net is a multilingual website that provides free courses and information on the international language Esperanto. With lernu!, you can learn Esperanto easily and free of charge.


Edukado.   (Menu   Top)
    Edukado.net is a vast site with materials for teaching, learning, and practicing Esperanto.
Katalin Kováts is the Director.


Mazi.   Videos to learn Esperanto. (Menu   Top)
Please search for the names of these 2 animations on YouTube.
Mazi en Gondolando. (77 minutes)
Mazi revenas al Gondolando. (80 + 15 minutes)
"Mazi kaj la Mistera Planto" is on the last 15 minutes of the previous file.
    Not an animation, but a lady reading from a book.
Here is the   complete text in Esperanto.


Esperanto, Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo.  Videos to learn Esperanto.   (Menu   Top)

    Pasporto, in YouTube. 16 lessons of about 27 minutes each, 7 hours and a half in total. Actors from more than 12 countries.


Easy books,  with limited vocabulary.   (Menu   Top)

    Easy Books in Esperanto, and other easy texts.


More books.   (Menu   Top)

    Thousands of free books, magazines, and podcasts with text, in the web.

    Project Gutenberg, in Esperanto


Pod casts.   (Menu   Top)

    Radio Verda ,   Vancouver, Canada. Short articles with interesting subjects, read a bit slowly. Very good pronunciation. The podcasts 194 - 202 have their complete text. A total of 201 podcasts, no more will be added. All these podcasts were recorded between September 1998 and December 2013.

Podcasts with text

    Uea facila.  
Easy to read articles with full text and sound.

    Esperanta Retradio,   Good pronunciation   with full text, and previous podcasts.
    Anton Oberndorfer has been adding a podcast a day since 2011.

    Luis Jorge Santos Morales   from Colombia,
    reads his own podcasts. Many of them have text.

Podcasts without text

    Pola Radio
   
adds new 25-minute podcasts twice a week. There is no text.
    Almost at the top of this page you can select:
    Novaĵoj, Felietonoj, Sciencaj informoj.   They have sound and text,
    but you cannot download the sound files.

Varsovia Vento.   Facebook:     1       2     Varsovia Vento Elsendoj

Radio Esperanto,   Halina Gorecka, Aleksander Korĵenkov.
    Eldonejo Sezono, La Ondo de Esperanto, Kaliningrado, Russia.

Kern Punkto,   Eva Fitzelová kaj Johannes Mueller. Ludwigsburg, Germanio.

Radio 3ZZZ,   Melbourne, Australia.   The radio staff
Muzaiko Retradio   is a full-time, global, current, retradio-channel
in Esperanto!  Muzaiko plays for you 24 hours a day, music,
programs, news, information, reports, and much more!
   


Songs in Esperanto.   (Menu   Top)

    More than 600 songs, in Esperanto

    More than 100 songs, in Esperanto,   sang by Manŭel Rovere, from Italy.
All the songs have the complete lyrics on the screen.

   
Affixes, pronouns, prepositions, listing.   (Menu   Top)

    In this page   you will see almost complete lists of article, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, correlatives, prefixes, suffixes, endings, numbers, days of the week, months, colors, 1000 words, my pages.


PMEG,   Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko             (Menu   Top)
    Complete Esperanto Grammar, by Bertilo Wennergren.
    pdf  (748 pages)     The pdf version could be updated once in a while.
            The online version is updated more frequently.


Bibliotekoj.  Libraries (Menu   Top)

    Esperanto Muzeo en Vieno   Direktoro: Bernhard Tuider
       
Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9, 1010 Vieno, Aŭstrio.
        La plej granda Esperanto-biblioteko en la mondo.

    Esperantistaj bibliotekoj

    STEB  Scienca kaj Teknika Esperanto-Bibliotek.   Vasta cifereca biblioteko

    Interkultura Centro Herzberg  
(ĉe Facebook)
        Grubenhagestr. 6, DE--37412 Herzberg, Germanio

    LibraryThing-o  
Hejmo por viaj libroj  
        LibraryThing-o renkontigas vin kun homoj legantaj tion kion vi legas.
    AEA   Aŭstralio      

    Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience         7379 Esperanto titles
   

   
Vortaroj.   (Menu   Top)

    1000-word Eo-Eo vocabulary     Bold type words are more frequently used.
        Please read the notes at the end of the vocabulary.

    2500-word English-Eo vocabulary     in groups by frequency.
        Please scan for the word you are looking for. It could be in any of the 10 groups.

    Plurlingva vortareto:  (vocabulary in several languages)
    By alphabet     By frequency of use
    Languages:
eo: Esperanto. Ra: word root. de: German. ca: Catalan. en: English.
es: Spanish. fr: French it: Italian. la: Latin. lt: Lithuanian. nl: Netherlands. pl: Polish.
pt: Portuguese. ru: Russian. yi: Yiddish. OF: use frequency.

    La Akademia Vortaro,  Esperanto Academy Dictionary, compiled by Bertilo Wennergren

    Reta Vortaro  online dictionary.


 
Aktualaĵoj   Current affairs           (Menu   Top)

    Eventa Servo  Kalendaro de esperantaj eventoj.

    Esperanto-Radaro   Ĝeneralaj Interesaĵoj kaj novaĵoj     en Facebook    



Dr. Márkus Gábor.   Some benefits of using Esperanto.         (Menu   Top)

    Dr. Márkus Gábor, from Budapest, Hungary, used Esperanto for his benefit and for the benefit of many big organizations. He wrote many books using several languages. Here you can read about his doing in two books written originally in Esperanto. These books are not intended for beginners, but they are written in very simple Esperanto (Please read a couple of books for beginners before reading these):

    Ruĝa Suno kaj Verda Stelo,   2011,   pdf,  132 pages.   This book tells how Dr. Márkus went to Japan to research how Japan progressed to be the second economy after the United States, in a short time, after being reduced almost to zero during the second world war.
(Ruĝa suno = Japan, Verda Stelo = Esperanto)

    Trans la Flava Maro.   2012,   pdf,  146 pages.   This book tells how Dr. Márkus used his knowledge acquired in Japan for the benefit of Hungary, the European Union, and some other countries.   (Trans la Flava Maro = Japan)


Lists.   (Menu   Top)

    Enrique's lists: Songs, just published books, Facila Vento podcasts, Evildea's videos, Radio Verda podcasts, books, easy books/readings, magazines, reasons to learn Esperanto, groups from Facebook, Yahoo, Google, and others;  to read and post messages.


To learn other languages. (Menu   Top)

    Learning languagesMany resources.



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How Esperanto was originated      
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Most Esperanto speakers would say that Dr. Zamenhof, an "Eye Doctor", created Esperanto. Dr. Zamenhof never called himself "the creator". He said that he was only "the Esperanto's originator", with the idea that with time, the language would develop with its use.

After 135 years of use, Esperanto works the same as any other language, only that it is easier to learn and easier to use. But the original idea, came to his mind when he was a child, because he thought that people kept fighting because they did not understand each other.

Most of the development of Esperanto, happened before he got his Doctor's diploma. Later he found that being a doctor was a painful job, and went on to study as an eye doctor, just to help people without seeing that much suffering.

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Should I translate to English
when reading or speaking in Esperanto?   (Menu  Top)

There is a book which has hundreds of colloquial sentences in English with their translation into Esperanto. I do not recommend this book.
Think about people speaking another language, maybe Russian, Arab, or Japanese. Do you think that they will first think in English and then translate into their language? The same goes for Esperanto. You learn how to use Esperanto and then you create your sentences in Esperanto without the help of any other language.

Read as much as you can in Esperanto, starting with books for beginners, with reduced vocabulary, then you will know how Esperanto is used. Reduced vocabulary limits dictionary use, so you don't need to find the meaning of many words, what makes you think in English. To speak in any language, you have to think in that language.

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Some facts:
(from answers to many similar questions)       (Menu   Top)

Same as all languages, you can use Esperanto only with people that understand this language. Same as all languages, Esperanto is useful only to people who uses it.
If you want to find someone at the airport waiting for you, you have to contact that person before your trip, no matter which language you will be speaking.

How useful is it? I started to use Esperanto after less than 20 hours of study time. I have spoken Esperanto since August 1959, this is, during 63 years (as of September 21, 2022).

I have spoken Esperanto in 31 countries: ... America (10): Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, ... Asia (4): China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, ... Europe (17): Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.

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Esperanto unintended use:
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Esperanto is a logical language with few rules and no exceptions. Learning it offers a good base to learn other languages. It helps to understand grammar, and it is learned in a short time compared with other languages. It should be the first language to learn, to save time when learning other languages.

Even some Esperanto speakers will say that Esperanto can help you learn (only) romance languages, because it has many roots (words) coming from Latin. But a language is not just a stock of words. The logic behind the structure of Esperanto, helps you learn "grammar concepts", (how to use a language) not just the grammar of Esperanto.

I will say that Esperanto is "easy" to learn, which is the wrong word. Esperanto is "easier" than other languages. But Esperanto is another language. You have to learn how Esperanto works. You have to learn new concepts, that not always are easy. This is valid for all languages. But my use of the word "easy", means that most people learn Esperanto in a fraction of the time required to learn other languages.

If you were learning another language and stopped because you could not advance enough, and then you learn Esperanto in a short time, you will understand that "you can learn a language". Then it will be easier to come back to that language or to start learning another. Many Esperanto speakers speak several languages.

Easy grammar: Esperanto was created from a very simple grammar with a few rules. You can use Esperanto from these simple rules, but ... If you want to go into details ... PMEG, Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko, by Professor Bertilo Wennergren, is the best grammar book for Esperanto and has more than 600 pages. Note: I have never read it. A few times I just consulted a few pages. I have spoken Esperanto during 63 years. I started speaking Esperanto 3 years after Professor Wennergren was born. You can get  PMEG  free online. 



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