Duolingo's new Esperanto course ready for class

   The new DuoLingo's Esperanto course has been available to sign up for eight months since September, 2014 and, finally with a lot of work from the volunteers who created it, the beta phase is finally ready for students.  My wife and I have been waiting and watching the Course Status page throughout its hatching progress.  We will be starting the course along with 26,062 students who also pre-signed up without a doubt more to join.  We look forward to using it to continue our progress to learn the language.  

   We look forward to when the beta course is released to the Android/ios App to use it learn Esperanto while out in the yard with our Androids this summer.  Until then, while in beta phase we will use Chrome browsers on our devices.  Who knows, if it works well with Chrome we may not bother with the app at all.  It would certainly save some device memory

   We will continue to use the other teaching avenues we have been using as well. Memrise for vocabulary reminders has been great, but most notably my best language asset so far has been my patient English/EO tutor for helping with my my lack of sentence structure skills.

   In Esperanto if a word is an object or an adverb or noun they are automatically encoded into words by an ending with an -o (object), -a (adverb), or an -n for a noun or pronoun.  I wish EO was used when I was in school to help teach us parts of speech.  Besides, us mono lingo US students need the opportunity to learn a second language right from primary school since it is the best time to learn one.  I really would have enjoyed learning it in school.  We always enjoyed using pig latin and cheap oriental with each other until it got too easy and we grew out of it. If we could have been using EO with each other and have been learning a real language that is used around the world on through adulthood it would have been awesome.  We could also have applied that skill and confidence to learning yet another language later in school.  Esperanto is a bridge to learning hundreds of languages I wish we could have known about.  It is harder to learn a language as an adult, but at least Esperanto is considered the easiest and most structured language a person can learn.

  Between Memrise, my tutor, Esperanto's logical structure, our study book ¨Ni Parolu Esperanton Kune¨, and now Duolingo, we should really be able to enhance our progress of learning Esperanto. 

May progress report

    As I have been waiting for the Duolingo Course to open in June.  I have been trying to get the accusative -n is used when a noun or pronoun is the direct object of a verb in my head.  As I never did understand parts of sentences in English it is a huge challenge to me, my email tutor has been helping me a lot on by giving input on many practice sentences.  I have also created several Google documents to give me an opportunity to practice.  I am coming to the conclusion it will just take a lot of time for me and to continue working on the language and perhaps I will start to pick it up better.

  So for practice and subject to future editing I wrote a little short story called 'Ni Venas Paroli Kun Vi En Vian Lingvon' about some aliens who come to earth to speak to us in what they believe is our universal earth language.  I will preface that it is a rather rough telling of a story as I fully realize it is full of beginner language errors.  When I understand the language better I plan to update or repost it with corrections I have learned.

  I have been outside more since the weather has improved.  So when not up to a bit of yard work(read weeding and watering) I have been using Memrise to try to get the vocabulary down for "Gerda Malaperis" so I can try to watch it on youtube and understand it better.