Esperanto General Discussion

[Proudly_Jewish]

Welcome to the Esperanto General Discussion! This is where we discuss everything related to the Esperanto language, including, but not limited to:

-asking specific questions about Esperanto vocabulary and grammar (people who can speak Esperanto fluently can help answer others' questions)
-recommendations for Esperanto dictionaries, websites, etc
-and everything else about the beautiful langauge Esperanto! 3nodding

Please note that although speaking in Esperanto is allowed here, it is not mandatory.

Let's start off with a few facts about the Esperanto language:

Spoken in: worldwide

Total number of speakers: 100 000 - 2 million

Language Family: Constructed langues (international auxiliary languages)

Regulated by: Akademio de Esperanto  

[Proudly_Jewish]

WEBSITES

General information about the Esperanto language -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_language

http://www.lernu.net  

[Proudly_Jewish]

DICTIONARIES/GRAMMAR BOOKS ETC

 

[Proudly_Jewish]

If anyone here has any other reccommendations for websites/dictionaries/grammar books etc, please feel free to tell us about them in this thread.  

[Doktoro Esperanto]

Esperanto estas la lingvo por ni!
(Esperanto is the language for us!)
Jen bonajn ret-vortarojn kaj retpagxojn, ke oni povas uzi.
(Here are some good online dictionaries and websites that you can use.)

*Copied from his school's Esperanto Club website gonk *

<>:
LA FUNDAMENTA KRESTOMATIO!!
by L. L. Zamenhof (AkA the creator of Esperanto)
The fundamental book of Esperanto. All Esperantists should read it at some point in their lives!
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8espr10h.htm

The Esperanto Teacher--A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
by Helen Fryer
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/esptr10h.htm

Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village (Esperanto history and primer)
by Sylvan Zaft
http://members.aol.com/sylvanz/gvcont.htm

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
by Ivy Reed
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/esper10h.htm



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Lernu!--For practicing Esperanto at home
http://lernu.net/

Great Esperanto vocab list
http://pacujo.net/esperanto/course/materialo/tabeloj.html

All the prepositions you'll ever need...and then some
http://www.aoshop.com/esperanto/prepositions.htm

Essential 16 rules of Esperanto (no exceptions!!)
http://www.webcom.com/~donh/Esperanto/rules.html

Word building (there's much more you can do with words than just swapping the final letters)
http://www.webcom.com/~donh/Esperanto/affixes.html

Esperanto Correlatives!
http://www.webcom.com/~donh/Esperanto/correlatives.html

Google--Esperanto flavored!
http://www.google.com/intl/eo/

A better explanation of auxilliary verb constructions in Esperanto:
http://anaproy.homeip.net/esperantocourse/eocourse19.utf8.html

<>:
Kurso de Esperanto
A VERY helpful software-based Esperanto course...lots of sound clips to help you improve on your pronunciation. It's free, and runs on Windows/Linux...sorry Mac users...
http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br/bazo/elshuto.html?en  

[Ozumou]

www.esperanto.org

or if in english

http://www.esperanto.org/angla/

You can get a lot of good links, including radio,

http://www.esperanto.org/teme/radio/

I currently enjoy radio Verde (from Canada)


http://radioverda.com/  

[Ozumou]

MACHINE-DEPENDENT
Husband and wife are sitting in the loungeroom. Suddenly the
husband says, "I want you to know, darling, I'm not ready to
live in a vegetable state when my life depends on some machine.
If that ever happens, please simply disconnect the electricity."
"Okay," his wife says, and gets up and disconnects the television.

Trans.: Alano.


APARATO-DEPENDA
Geedzoj sidas vespere en la salono. Subite diras la edzo:
"Sciu, karulino, ke mi ne estas preta vivi en stato de "vegetalo",
kiam mia vivo dependas de iu aparato. Se tio okazos foje, bonvolu
simple malkonekti la elektron."
"En ordo", diris la edzino, levigxis kaj malkonektis la televidilon.  

[Proudly_Jewish]

How do you say I love France in Esperanto? assuming that the speaker is female razz  

[Doktoro Esperanto]

You would say "Mi amas Francion." (mee awm-as Frrahn-tsee-ohn.)

In Esperanto, there is no distinction in the first person between male and female (in fact, there's no masculine or feminine at all, except the suffix "-in-" which makes things into a feminine form (like the "ess" in "princess").

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[Proudly_Jewish]

Thank you! 4laugh  

[Ozumou]

The University of New South Wales (in Sydney for those who do not know Australian State Names) has announced a new certificate in Teaching Languages Other Than English.

One of the first courses (starting in April) will be Esperanto!
So you can come to AUstralia and get a university and government recognised qualification in teaching Esperanto!  

[Da_Nuke]

Arrrrghhhhh, Lernu.net ain't working. DDDDX  

[Eccentric Iconoclast]

HOW does one say "Drop your weapons and surrender!" in Esperanto? It would be quite appreciated. ^^  

[Ozumou]

Eccentric Iconoclast

HOW does one say "Drop your weapons and surrender!" in Esperanto? It would be quite appreciated. ^^

According to my trusty online translator
http://lingvo.org/traduku.net/


Fal viaj armiloj kaj kapitulaco!  

[Dreadful]

mi ŝatas Esperanton ĉar ĝi havas la potencialon esti universala lingvo.

[I like Esperanto because it has the potential to be a univeral language].

I don't know the grammatical structure of Esperanto, I used a translator. I would like to study the language sometime though.