Esperanto Viva! A free correspondence course

This course is under construction, but you are welcome to browse it anyway.

An introductory course in the international language Esperanto, giving you an insight into the language and the language community.

Click on Lesson One and enjoy yourself. When you have completed the exercises a tutor will be found, and your corrected exercises will be returned to you by e-mail. Then do the same for lessons 2 - 10!

Notes:

• There are versions of this course to teach Esperanto using other languages, too.
• You may also download the whole of the 'Esperanto Viva!' course for study offline.
• This is the Latin-3 version of the course. If you do not have a Latin-3 font, then you may prefer the version of this course which uses standard Latin letters (i.e. lower half of the ASCII set). (If "æ" appears as a "c" with a "^" over it, then you have the Latin-3 font installed.)
• You may wish to download a Latin-3 font, which reproduces the accented characters in Esperanto.

Contents

• Lesson One:

  • What Esperanto is. Introducing yourself, and other people. Registering with a tutor.
    
  
  

• Lesson Two:

  • Educational value of Esperanto, and buying drinks.
    
  
  

• Lesson Three:

  • Origins of Esperanto, and your first Universal Congress.
    
  
  

• Lesson Four:

  • Other Esperanto events and the children's congress, and extending your vocabulary.
    
  
  

• Lesson Five:

  • 'Denaskaj Esperantistoj'; learning to count and say dates and times; using the 'Pasporta Servo'.
    
  
  

• Lesson Six:

  • About music; expanding your vocabulary with adverbs, and endings such as '-il' and '-a¼'
    
  
  

• Lesson Seven:

  • Esperanto on the radio; More ki-, ti- and æi- words.
    
  
  

• Lesson Eight:

  • Specialist organisations, Esperanto magazines, other Esperanto organisations; '-anto' and i- words.
    
  
  

• Lesson Nine:

  • Local Esperanto clubs, and being introduced; names of countries and their inhabitants.
    
  
  

• Lesson Ten:

  • Summarising what you know; introduction to further study.
    
  
  

• Esperanto-English word list.

  
  

• English-Esperanto word list.

  
  

• Countries of the world.

  
  

Audio tape There's a cassette tape available, containing the texts of these lessons, using speakers from various parts of the world It's all in Esperanto, since it's meant to be used by learners from any language background, and there are excerpts of songs in Esperanto from various countries. It's called 'Esperanto Viva!', and it costs just £4.50 in the UK plus postage and packaging, and is available from The Esperanto Centre, 140 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UF, England, tel: +44 (0)171 727 7821 or from Universala Esperanto-Asocio or probably from your national Esperanto association. Your tutor may be able to advise you how to get the tape locally. Happy listening!

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Publication of this course in other languages is encouraged. Please note, however, that the course is copyright, and that we wish you to accept certain conditions - we wish to work with you!

This course is published not only on the Internet, but also as a free postal course, on paper. The first lesson is distributed, for instance, in public libraries, and the address of a local tutor is placed on the back page. The student is asked to provide a stamped addressed envelope with his/her exercises. On receipt of the corrections, he/she receives the next lesson.

Again, we welcome the possibility of producing the paper version in other languages.

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