September Update

   Mi estas nivelo dek kaj laboras pri la sana lecionoj.  Mia Frato estas nivelo ses nun.

   I am still level ten and currently finishing the travel skill lessons and then on to Affixes 2. When I finish the tree I will really need to refresh my lessons.

   UPDATE: I have decided to go ahead and review  and re-golden my lesson tree. I need to review and the lesson are getting harder. This will allow allow me to practice my listen skills using simpler sentences with words I know better. The audio lesson were added when I was already on level 10 and the more complicated sentences are giving me problems.

   My Brother is level six now. And a mutual friend of our has been learning some Esperanto as well.  My Wife wants to learn more Esperanto as she is able.  I plan to go over lessons 1 and 2 alongside her on her Duolingo account.  It will be fun if we can all become fluent enough to use EO with each other.

   I am finding that besides my new wells word dictionary I also like using the Glosbe en/eo/en dictionary to get the meanings of words and many words are used differently between the languages. Of course I still use lernu for quick reference on a word.

UPDATE on my sci-fi short story, 

Ni venas paroli kun vi en vian lingvon

We come to speak with you in your language

   I posted a link to my sci-fi short story at Duolingo Esperanto Learners forum and particularly one student Jonathan Powell really helped me out to make it a readable story.

   Another student Catherine Wilcox has shown interest in recording an audio file along with some other stories she has been reading for student practice.  This conversation is at the Duolingo Esperanto Learners forum.

   Here is a link to the original draft story:  Ni venas paroli kun vi en vian lingvon.

   I will post the edited story in my next post perhaps even with an audio file to go along with it sometime.

August Esperanto Progress Update

   I Purchased English-Esperanto-English Dictionary (2010 Edition) - John Christopher Wells from with off 5%(Promo Code: Class5 ) from for $24 with shipping from Finders Cheapers leading to Salem, OR Book Byte.  I have bought other inexpensive books (around 5$ each) but this book is a purchase of more commitment to me.

   My Brother and a mutual friend is using Duolingo to learn some Esperanto. I hope they both succeed and have a lot of fun with it, I am sure having fun with them.  Craig and I have sat in our yard and learned some lessons and reviewed together.  His quizzes to me have been helpful, it is cool to hear and understand what someone else is saying in another language.  An experience I have never had before. (Other than pig Latin and cheap oriental).

  Duolingo has added spoken questions to the course.  While to me, as a Komecanto(beginner), it seems rather fast and it was quite a shock to me hearing it at that rate for a while.  I must admit I am picking a bit more of them up now after several more lessons, and A LOT of replaying the questions from them.  I have Special Difficultly with close sounding words such as ni and li.  I am going to try some earphones an see if I can pick sounds out clearer by not using my PC speakers.  Also a another factor in not picking up the words, is the fact that I am just learning these words.  It is hard to pick out a word, when you do not know the word well in the first place.  LOTS of replaying seems to be the fix for that ;)

   I am growing more pleased with my progress, although that accusative -N is still my greatest nemeses along with my lousy memory.  It looks like I will be continuing with learning Esperanto, especially now that I have invested in a real dictionary, and I now have a couple language buddies.

Update: August 7,2015
   I reached the 10th level and the 3rd and last checkpoint with 2278 xp points. From the 3rd checkpoint to the end of the course is the biggest section yet.  I still have a lot of work ahead of me.