the international language you can easily learn!

Date:   5/6/2006 4:14:08 PM ( 18 y ago)

Today while I was out enjoying the Farmer's Market and getting my morning errands done, I had a thought. My thought was about Esperanto. Have you heard of Esperanto? Many of the people I know locally have not, and they look puzzled when I try to explain it to them.

One of my dearest relatives, who died several years ago, had a PhD in Esperanto. Esperanto enthusiasts from all over the world came to see her, and she travelled to be with them, for most of her adult life, especially after she retired from her professorship.

When I was younger, she tried to teach me Esperanto, but I didn't have an interest in it. Now I think, if only I had. I could have learned from a master.

Esperanto, by the way, is an international language, and it's apparently easy to learn. One of the many websites about Esperanto contains the following information:

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Esperanto is neutral. It doesn't belong to any country. It gives speakers a fair and equal footing.

Esperanto has great expressive power, a vast literature, and a lively culture of its own.

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My relative wrote books, and her books are all available in several languages, including Esperanto. Another one of my relatives boxed up all of her Esperanto books (written by many different authors) and took them to his house before anyone else got a chance to look at them. Argh! Family angst! How I would love to see those books! I suppose I could ask.

I took a look at many of the Esperanto websites and am choosing to share one with you. It wasn't necessarily the most scholarly but it was the most fun!

http://esperanto.ca/kurso/home.htm


love and light,
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