Progress at Learning Esperanto

  

They don't give out gold stars but
all Esperantists do get a green one.

  My Progress.
  I am doing well with learning Esperanto words.  I have a few hundred words bouncing around somewhere in my head that I can recall with some prodding from flashcards at Memrise.com.  I need to work on creating my own sentences and doing some reading.  I see it being even more fun as My Wife and I continue to learn further.

  The Esperanto Duolingo course is really coming along and I am really looking forward to it starting around its estimated launch time of 3/21/15.  It already has 10,802 students pre-signed up.  It will be great time to start what is considered to be an excellent starter language for beginners.  Even though Duolingo is not a college course with a diploma, it is free and is commonly used by college students.  The greatest diploma you can show from learning a new skill is showing how well you are able to use the new skill itself.  While we wait for the duolingo class I am getting as much of a head start with the language as I can.

   Why learn Esperanto?
   In My Wife and I's case it is fun language that we can learn together as a family without the learning stress that other languages have. We are both loving that it is a VERY easy language to learn.  It follows ALL of its grammar and spelling rules without exception.  ALL words are spelled exactly as they are spoken, and spoken exactly as they are spelled.  It is a real breath of fresh air compared to English.

   Esperanto is taught in some schools as an introductory language.  It teaches language structure (nouns, pronouns, adjectives) without having at the same time to fight non-conforming spellings and pronunciations of a new language.  This builds confidence to learn another language.  Esperanto is especially easy to learn by English speakers at it uses many of the the same root words that English uses, root words that are common to many languages.   Once basic language learning skills are learned with Esperanto it may motivate and build a persons confidence to learn yet another language.  Even if a person chooses not to continue with another language after Esperanto, at least you have learned the one second language to use.

Getting a good start with some online tools

 

   My Wife and I getting a good start on learning Esperanto.  The flash card decks at Memrise.com have really been useful.  We have found ourselves using it even more than at Lernu.net.  I expect we will get back to lernu.net after going through several packs of cards at Memrise.com

   

   The course at DuoLingo is really coming along as it is almost 70% done at this point and nearing 10,000 students with 9834 already waiting for class to begin.  We look forward to using Duolingo when it starts, but happy we are getting a head start with the other educational options.  Its estimated launch is around March 18th 2015.

   There hope the beta live online proficiency test that DuoLingo now has in English will spread to other DuoLingo language courses.  I have doubts I could even pass the English proficiency test and I have lived with the language my whole life.  I can really see it being a difficult language for someone to learn as a second language.

    We still have a long way to go before we can say we know the language at all, but we really do like our progress so far. It is so nice to learn a language that spells every word exactly as they are pronounced or is that pronounces words exactly as they are spelled.  Well, its all correct when the language follows all of its own grammar rules.  I also like that many of the root words are already familiar as English already uses many of them in one form or another. This helps to learn it a lot.

   We will get back with more progress as time goes on. Mi estas tre feliĉa pri nia progreso ĝis nun.

Mi lernas Esperanton

    I remember in school when we used to speak Pig latin and Cheap Oriental.  I actually honestly was pretty good at speaking them and did a fair job as understanding others too. Although rusty I can still do a fair job them.  But I am interested in learning a real language.  I if I am to learn a new language it needs to be easy and to follow its own rules. Even though I have wanted to learn another language I am a slow learner and find it very difficult.  So I went about to find an easy language to learn. 

    I know I live in the states but I hate English as a language, and I am FAR from alone. It really needs to be a dead language.  I welcome a world with only one language.

Free PC, Linux, 
Mac Program

   I have tried Spanish but could not get anywhere with it.  I wanted to learn Spanish to converse with some local Brothers but by pea brain just could not do it I found Spanish very hard as it just adds a different set of exceptions to the rules.   But I still wanted to learn a new language.  I need to learn a clean language that does not have all the exceptions to the 'rules' and complicated sentence structures.  I did some research to find a better language to learn and found Esperanto.  It has repeatedly been referred as the easiest language to learn.

   Esperanto uses common roots to many languages from Romance and Germanic languages, grammar from Slavic languages. This done by design to try to make it easier to learn. It was once hoped it would be a common politically neutral language for everyone and was once discussed as such by the UN but of course that did not happen.  But anyway I find it is much easier to learn than my previous attempts at spanish of which there are also word similarities.

Free lessons

   So here we go:  Mia Mi am learning Esperanto kaj decided por write ĝi down mia vojaĝo in a novo blog. Most of ĝi will start in English but over time mi want ĝi por slowly merge into an all Esperanton journal el mia voyaĝo.  Mi lernas Esperanton kaj decidis noti my Vojaĝo.

     La plejparto de ĝi komencos en la angla sed kun la tempo mi volas malrapide kunfandi en cxiuj Esperanto taglibro de mia vojaĝo.*

    *Google translation, (Mi mal-responsible por this translation.)* Mi decided to start ĉi novo blog por future poŝtoj as I leno ĝi.