Free Esperanto Course

 
The World Language Solution
Lernu la Lingvo Internacia de la Esperanto
WHY LEARN ESPERANTO?
1. Esperanto is spoken by millions of people around the world and facilitates international communication.
2. Esperanto is the simplest language in the world.
3. There are only 16 rules to its grammar and there are no exceptions.
4. The orthography (spelling) of Esperanto is entirely regular.
5. Esperanto is culturally and politically neutral.
6. You can stay for free with other Esperantists as a part of the Passport Service, which publishes a book each year listing potential hosts around the world.
7. Esperantists are fun, warm, and loving people.
8. Esperanto is the only international language that works and puts people everywhere on an equal level of communication.
9. Esperanto is not intended to replace anybody's language or culture, but is intended to be a secondary language for al people around the world.
10. Esperanto's vocabulary is borrowed from universally recognized words.
11. While Esperanto will not bring about instant utopia, it provides a foundation for discussion and understanding between individuals and governments across cultural and national boundaries.
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW?
Esperanto was created in Poland by Dr. Zamenhof over 100 hundred years ago. He saw that the world needed an international auxillary language because people in the world have trouble communication. He hoped that he could create world peace through international communication. After he had published his book, La Internacia Lingvo, many copy-cat artifical languages emerged but Esperanto is the only one that survived.
During World War II, Esperanto classes had to be "disguised" as Italian classes (Italy was Germany's ally at the time), because Esperanto was outlawed. The language was also prohibited in Stalinist Russia (Stalin called it the "language of spies"). The United States Army even published a book entitled Esperanto: the Aggressor Language. The only explanation for such measures is that certain governments have found Esperanto to be a threat to their Imperialist power schemes. Since it allows easy access to international information, news, and ideas, it undermines the ability of the state to restrict information from its people.
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