Esperanto

Subject classification: this is a language-learning resource.

Bonvenon!

Welcome to the Department of Esperanto at Wikiversity, part of the Center for Foreign Language Learning and the School of Language Studies.

Introduction

Esperanto is a constructed language that was published in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof with the intention for it to become the language of international communication. Although it has not yet achieved this ambitious goal, Esperanto is by far the most successful constructed language. It is much easier to learn than any typical natural language and learning it has a positive effect on learning more languages. This course aims to take the learner from the basics through all the intricacies of the language.

Course

Completion status: Been started, but most of the work is still to be done.

Additional Wikimedia resources

Textbook at Wikibooks

Article at Wikipedia

Word index at the English Wiktionary

The Esperanto Wiktionary

The Esperanto Teacher at Wikisource

Dr. Esperanto's International Language at Wikisource

Lesson 1 — Pronunciation, parts of speech, noun basics, article, a few personal pronouns, present tense
Lesson 2 — Pronunciation (repetition), adjective basics, verb basics, personal pronouns, introduction to affixes (mal-)
Lesson 3 — Adverbs, ĉu, the suffixes -ulo and -ino, the ending -n, and counting
Lesson 4 — Basic derivation
Lesson 5 — Imperatives, introduction to correlatives
Lesson 6 — Derivation with prepositions; Theme: Locations (incl. -ejo and -ujo), directions, and movement (incl. dis-)
Lesson 7 — Theme: Family (incl. bo-, ge-, pra-, vic-, and eks-)
Lesson 8 — Derivation using numerals
Lesson 9 — Advanced derivation; Theme: Time
Lesson 10 — Theme: Food
Lesson 11 — Theme: Home
Lesson 12 — Theme: The body
Lesson 13 — Theme: The history of Esperanto
Lesson 14 — Theme: Communication
Lesson 15 — Theme: Weather and geography
Lesson 16 — Theme: Work and occupations?