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This is an index of Espernato resources on the web. I will eventually move this into a Wiki space somewhere. Within each sections, the links are approximately ordered by usefulness to me. This is in English because it is targetted towards beginners. When Esperanto words are in the title of a resource, the translation is in parentheses.

Courses

Video courses

Courses embedded in literature

Dictionaries

Esperanto-English

English-Esperanto

Esperanto-native

Esperanto-etymology

Slang

Common Word lists

Grammar guides

Quick reference

Online Esperanto communities

Esperanto games

Literature

Podcasts

Music

Institutions

Events

History

  • Wikipedia: History of Esperanto

  • The place where I was born and spent my childhood gave direction to all my future struggles. In Białystok the inhabitants were divided into four distinct elements: Russians, Poles, Germans, and Jews; each of these spoke their own language and looked on all the others as enemies. In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies. I was brought up as an idealist; I was taught that all people were brothers, while outside in the street at every step I felt that there were no people, only Russians, Poles, Germans, Jews, and so on. This was always a great torment to my infant mind, although many people may smile at such an 'anguish for the world' in a child. Since at that time I thought that 'grown-ups' were omnipotent, I often said to myself that when I grew up I would certainly destroy this evil.

    (L. L. Zamenhof, in a letter to Nikolai Borovko, c. 1895)

  • Lernu's history of Esperanto
  • Esperanto: the langauge made for humankind
  • The secret Jewish history of Esperanto
  • Bridge of Words by Ester Schor (book)
  • History in Fine, chapter of The Esperanto Book by Don Harlow

Arguments to learn Esperanto

Propaedeutic effects of Esperanto

Arguments against learning Esperanto

Coining new jargon

Esperantujo studies

Resource indices

Places

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