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Should I continue?

de N4th4nEnforcer, 2 de junio de 2016

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Idioma: English

erinja (Mostrar perfil) 7 de junio de 2016 16:15:57

No, there are a bunch of resources. It depends also on what language you speak. The Italian and French associations run their own online courses in Italian and French, for one example (and more associations as well I'm sure but these are the two that spring to mind). I'm going to limit myself to what I know for a fact is available in English since I don't know what other languages you speak.

There is a downloadable course from Brazil. It is a bit old now but I believe it is still functional. I found some of the accents a little strong in the sound files.

The old ten lesson postal course (I learned from it myself, back in the day!) is available in printable form or also as an e-mail course.

There is an expanded pdf version of lernu's Ana Pana course available at the Libera Esperanto-Libro, for free download.

There is also an online version of the Zagreba Metodo (the Zagreb Method), an Esperanto class that used to be based out of a book, but has more recently become available in interactive form online.

Vestitor (Mostrar perfil) 7 de junio de 2016 16:45:34

I went through that Brazilian course and there was a fellow who corrected the tests, but at lesson five or six he just disappeared. He said he was going to a conference that week and wouldn't be available, then I never heard anything after that!

bartlett22183 (Mostrar perfil) 7 de junio de 2016 19:39:37

Alkanadi:
Bemused:So Zam didn't just invent a language.
He wrote the first "..... for Dummies" book.
"Esperanto, Spanish for Dummies"
Maybe that could the Esperanto moto.

It seems that lots of people confuse Esperanto for Spanish.
Say what!?!?!?!? I myself have never confused Esperanto with Spanish or any other Romance language! Yes, there are some similarities in vocabulary in some instances, but E-o is definitely not a Romance language. I have had (and have) some interest in IALA Interlingua, and I would say that, again, although it is not(!) a neo-Romance language, unfortunately there has been a tendency among some romanophone Interlinguaists to try to "pull" it in the direction of Yet Another Romance Language, a tendency I vehemently resist. If people try to assimilate Esperanto into Romance terms, I consider this a very, very bad idea. To try to "pull" international auxiliary language X in terms of language family Y I consider unsuitable.

Alkanadi (Mostrar perfil) 7 de junio de 2016 19:52:05

bartlett22183:
alkanadi:It seems that lots of people confuse Esperanto for Spanish.
Say what!?!?!?!?
According to Erinja, who is the site admin, tons of people create an account on Lernu thinking that it is a Spanish website.

I also read a blog of someone who starting learning Esperanto because they thought it was Spanish. Then when they figured it out, they decided to just continue in Esperanto.

erinja (Mostrar perfil) 7 de junio de 2016 20:30:49

Alkanadi:
bartlett22183:
alkanadi:It seems that lots of people confuse Esperanto for Spanish.
Say what!?!?!?!?
According to Erinja, who is the site admin, tons of people create an account on Lernu thinking that it is a Spanish website.

I also read a blog of someone who starting learning Esperanto because they thought it was Spanish. Then when they figured it out, they decided to just continue in Esperanto.
It's not "tons" but I've encountered a few.

Esperanto doesn't sound like Spanish but people who aren't very knowledgeable about either language might get confused between "esperanto" and "español".

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