Music hobby and Esperanto progress update

Saluton,

  We have really enjoyed learning guitar.  We have had Jay L. and/or Curt W. on several occasions in our yard practicing.  We also had a congregation picnic where Jaj and another brother we just met had fun playing.  I am slow going on the guitar but will continue in time.

  I also thanks to Jay L. have a Piano keyboard that I am learning to play using a real online teacher.  I am picking this up at a better pace that the Guitar, working with my limitations I am spending more time with the piano at this time.

   I have revisited learning Spanish but still found it way to difficult to take on, so that led me back to Esperanto so.....

   Yesterday I revisited Duolingo and practiced some Esperanto.  I did quite well, especially for not practicing it for quite some time. I was quite encouraged.  If I had another speaker around me I could really pick it up.

I leveled up to level 13 yesterday.at Duolingo :)

   I was also pleased to see that Duolingo now has a Spanish to Esperanto course and apparently there is a Duolingo forum for both English/EO and Spanish/EO  Esperanto speakers.  That is what EO is all about, a neutral easy language that all can learn and use togather.

   There are times when I am caught up with other more important studies, and I can only do so much sitting up at a piano bench practicing music.  I am often limited to sitting reclined with my legs elevated.  These may continue be good times for me to practice Esperanto.  I do enjoy the experience of learning another language,  I just wish one of my friends would take an interest in it.  Kathy my Wife has not been able to learn it as she likes and for another local Brother, the time was just not there for him.  I don't care I still enjoy the experience of learning a language, a language that follows its own spelling and pronunciation rules completely and consistently.  

Ankoraŭ studento sed ankoraŭ lernante.


 

The Duolingo course and my Memrise deck progress

Things are really coming along fast for the Duolingo course which is at 78% of opening up, the course writers have done quite a bit just since my previous post.  It also now has 12,000+ students waiting for the course to open up.

The course is at 78% since and now has 12,000+ students waiting for the course.

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I have been very busy as well.  I was in 6th place I believe for the high score of the "A complete grammar of Esperanto vocabulary" Memrise deck during my last post.  Now as of this post have gone through all 924 words,  now I just need to review the deck often to keep them all in my head as I continue to be exposed to these words further in the textbook at Google play Books of the same title.

I now have (temporarily I am sure) the lead on this particular decks all time high Leader-board due to cramming all day long ever since my last post with 587,686 points.  I took a screenshot so it will last longer.  :) I expect the lead may disappear very quickly as there are several other active users of this deck that may wish to challenge my lead.  Its all part of the fun and motivation to keep ones studies up. i hope i have motivated them as much as they have motivated me. :)
EDIT: Noticed my score was passed on Feb, 15,2012 :)

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My temporary lead on this decks leader-board.

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto

I am going through the ebook:
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto with grades exercises for reading and translation together with full vocabularies by Ivy Kellerman, A.M., Ph. D.
As I have been studying the book I have also been using the 'Add Note' feature of Google Play Books to add all of my translations of the 'Reading Lessons' and 'Sentences for Translation' provided in the book.

Screen shot of the ebook along with a pop-up note of a translation.

Along with the book, I am using a Memrise flash card deck that includes all of the vocabulary from the book. I currently have 376,005 point that currently put me at 5th place on the all time leader board for this deck.  I am currently in position 1 for the weekly and monthly score position.  However, note that these scores are highly fluid for as soon as the next person sees my score, they will want to top it.  I have been bouncing back and fourth with the active deck users for the weekly and monthly position.  I find it rather fun and motivating.  It helps me to keep the vocabulary in my head in between my session with going through the book.

The Duolingo course is currently 77% done with 11,796 pre-registered.

I am finding it a useful combination to give me a head start while I wait for the Esperanto Duolingo course to start. The Duolingo course is currently at 77% near its completion with 11,796 students pre-registered for it.

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.

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.

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   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.

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   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.