I wouldn't recommend it now, but when you have progressed enough that you can understand everyday conversations, you should Skype with other Esperantists or "hang out" on Google+. This is a great way to practice your speaking, and I've done it before.

Where exactly do you find other esperantists to skype with. Have you just found them in the forums or.......? I also thought that google + worked like facebook and you would have to know the other esperantist in order to be there friend.

shs613:
Where exactly do you find other esperantists to skype with. Have you just found them in the forums or.......?

There are some threads somewhere hidden in the forums where people have posted their Skype IDs.

Anyway there is a multi-user audio chat at eo.chatonic.com, but I think it is not very active.

shs613:However, I live in nowhere Montana and there is no obvious place nearby to look for Esperanto speakers.

On your profile your location is given as Malta, which is a small island in the Mediterranean.

You should change it to USA.

I like to use the byki software to learn vocab and some gramar points. There is also some esperanto word lists in list central on the byki web page.

shs613:I live in nowhere Montana and there is no obvious place nearby to look for Esperanto speakers. So how can i work on speaking and conversation while making sure my pronunciation is correct as well?

Esperanto-USA gives this address:

Missoula Esperanto Society
P.O. Box 7301
Missoula, MT 59807

Now I realize that Montana is a big place and Missoula is at one end of it, but maybe there's someone at that post office box who knows of an Esperanto speaker anywhere near Shelby or Cut Bank or Wolf Point or Two Dot or wherever you happen to be. You'll have better luck if you live in or near one of the larger towns like Missoula, Billings, Great Falls or Butte, of course, but sometimes Esperantists pop up in the strangest places.

Also, you can do a search for "esperanto podcast" to look for some bits of Esperanto to listen to. Don't worry about comprehension at the moment; just get used to the sound of the language and see how many words you can pick out. ("He said Usono!" "She said kaj!" )

By the way, I completely feel your pain. I started learning Esperanto back in the 1970s and lived in Billings for several years, so I was the only Esperantist I knew of for miles around. (There was a UEA delegate in Bozeman at the time, but he's probably long gone by now.) I still suffer from a lack of conversational partners after 40+ years.