Our local group will give a brief presentation on Esperanto this evening. We’ll speak (in English) about the language itself, why you might want to learn it, and about the activities of our group. If you’re local, and interested in Esperanto, consider stopping by. It’ll take place at 5:30 PM this evening (Thursday, August 26) [...]
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My first Esperanto story is out!
My first Esperanto-language short story “Paŭzo en la stacidomo Union,” appears in the new issue of Beletra Almanako! My contributor’s copy arrived today. I even made the cover. I am in very good company—a veritable who’s who of current Esperanto literature. “Tiu,” Emma diris Otto rigardis kien ŝi kapmontris. “Tiu alta viro en la drelika [...]
Esperanto Group Picnic
With the end of the semester arriving, about half of the Esperanto group will be heading home for the summer. Before everybody hit the road, we had a little celebratory picnic. Photographic evidence: I’m the guy on the edge looking like an aging hippy hanging out with a bunch of college kids. It looks like [...]
Happy Esperanto Day!
Esperantists are celebrating today. It’s 150 years since the birth of L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. Celebrating along with them is Google, which is featuring the Esperanto flag in their logo. Esperanto has been important to me for twenty years. I’ve traveled overseas with it. I’ve met bunches of cool people, read fascinating books [...]
Gareth D Jones in Esperanto
Last August I got email from UK sf writer Gareth D Jones, who was looking for Esperanto magazines that might be interested in translating and publishing his work. There have been Esperanto-language publications that focused on science fiction (in particular, the Sfero series published by Grupo Nifo), but none of those seem to be active [...]
Thursdays
I’ve been trying to get out for a walk each day, and trying to take a photograph on the walks. I want to do both of these things, and my theory is that these desires will be self-reinforcing: My desire to take a photo will get me out on my walk, and my desire to [...]
Esperanto resources for English speakers
This is by no means a comprehensive list; I’m just trying to capture stuff that was previously in various places on this site and put it in one place. If you’re an Esperanto speaker, there’s more stuff (in Esperanto) on my Esperanto site. About Esperanto Esperanto.net General information about Esperanto. Universala Esperanto-Asocio The big international [...]
New local Esperanto group!
Thanks to Darcy and Meryl, we’ve once again got a functioning Esperanto group in Champaign-Urbana! There are several komencantoj, but also three or four of us who speak Esperanto adequately, so we’re trying to do a mix of things at the meetings. We’ve been reading Gerda Malaperis, which is something that even beginners can do. [...]
Esperanto-tago 2008
My brother, Steve, is once again organizing Esperanto-Tago, a day for everyone with a blog to post about language problems from their own perspective, bilingually–in their own language and in Esperanto. Two years ago, all kinds of people posted on all kinds of topics–immigrants, children of immigrants, people whose native language has a small number [...]
Now I know my own strength
My brother has been paying close attention to Find the Lost Ring, because of the way Esperanto is figuring in the game. At his urging, I took the quiz, which showed me as “sofia.” The flash dohicky the provided to show it on the blog, though, messed up my page, so I took it down.
