Saluton

If you don't know what I'm talking about, AJATT (All Japanese All The Time) is a website that promotes the practice of "becoming Japanese" to learn Japanese. In short, you change absolutely everything to Japanese that you do, so you are exposed to during all of your waking hours.

For example, the author of the site mentioned giving up his DVDs and CDs and replacing them with Japanese music. Changing his operating system's language and all computer program default languages to Japanese. Using Japanese sites to read news, replace blogs on topics he read before, and to find entertainment.

I would like some help on finding resources for this. I was able to change Firefox over to Esperanto. Can it be done for Windows? I checked at Youtube and it can't be displayed in Esperanto, but Google works (Gmail doesn't).

Are there are any up to date blog lists written in Esperanto? My interests are primarily combat sports, health, economics, philosophy, travel, and language learning. Is there a good online news source written in Esperanto? Reading Vikipedio topics in Esperanto might be fun.

I know there are a lot of free books translated into Esperanto, but I didn't ask about them since I don't spend all of my day reading long books. A few at a time might be okay though.

What other tips can anyone recommend? I was thinking of labeling all of the furniture and appliances around my house with their names in Esperanto. Once I'm up to snuff in my studying (which shouldn't be long) I'll try to do a majority of my real-time communication in Esperanto, either over Skype or Chat. (An estimation as to how many study hours to be able to text chat in real time with the occasional help of a dictionary for an average person would be appreciated).

Components of this thread have probably been asked in separate questions from time to time at this forum, so I apologize if I am creating a redundant thread. For example, I saw some threads on free music files in Esperanto. I will definitely use them--I just need to find the lyrics.

Dankon,
Bryan

Se vi uzus Ubuntu Linux, vi povus vidi preskaŭ ĉion en Esperanto. Mi uzas Ubuntu plej multe da tempo anstataŭ Windows, kvankam mi ja havas ankaŭ Windows je mia komputilo. Kelkfoje (ekzemple nun) mi uzas Ubuntu en Esperanto. Oni ne tradukis Windows en Esperanto.

If you used Ubuntu Linux, you would be able to see almost everything in Esperanto. I use Ubuntu most of the time instead of Windows (though I do also have Windows on my computer. Sometimes (like now) I use Ubuntu in Esperanto. Windows hasn't been translated into Esperanto.

You can get quite a few free plain-text books in Esperanto at gutenberg.org. The lernu! Reading suggestions might be of some help, but as of now the sites it links to are under construction.

I also think there's an Esperanto blog/news something called "Klaku".

jchthys:I also think there's an Esperanto blog/news something called "Klaku".

Not anymore. I just saw an article at Libera Folio saying that it's gone as of tomorrow.

Regarding news, Libera Folio is good for Esperanto community news; www.liberafolio.org

Le Monde Diplomatique has an Esperanto version which is good for world news. That's http://eo.mondediplo.com/

Try Farbskatol' for Esperanto short videos
www.farbskatol.net

You are probably already aware of Radio Verda, a popular Esperanto podcast.

There are some regular Esperanto news radio broadcasts that might be suitable for you as well. They are generally run by governments and are sometimes not very objective; they give the party line of whoever publishes them. However, if you want to hear the Cuban/Chinese/Vatican/whoever government saying how wonderful Cuba/China/Catholicism/whatever is, then these programs are a good choice, and also good accent practice, as they are published in different places.

Here's the link for Radio Havana from Cuba; it's a weekly broadcast
http://www.ameriko.org/eo/rhc

China Radio (print news plus radio):
http://esperanto.cri.cn/

Radio Vatican:
http://www.radiovaticana.org/esp/index.asp

Rai International (Italian state radio):
http://www.international.rai.it/radio/multilingue/...

Polish Radio:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/eo/

The Esperanto Wikipedia has a list of Esperanto blogs; I can't say much about the quality of the ones listed, as I am not much of a blog reader.

http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogo

...having said that, I like the blog written by Bertilo Wennergren and his wife Birke. Also, their grammar is perfect, which is rare in Esperanto blogs, so it's a good model for style.

http://bertilow.com/blogo/

It's bilingual Esperato and German, but everything is written in both languages.

"EventEO" is a fantastic news site. For the most part it's pretty straight-up reporting*, and gets updated quite frequently.

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* Sometimes I can detect the hint of a bias in an occasional story. But it's rare (and not always in the same direction; they have more than one writer).

cheers bryanhaydukewich for that info about AJATT, I found it quite interesting - I might take up that style of learning a bit more (I never really though about some of the things he said before).

jchthys, thanks for writing in Esperanto. You understand. (Curious, would this be grammatically correct: jchthys, dankon por skribis en Esperanton. Vi komprenas.) Thank you so much everyone else for all those resources. I will be using them all.

About AJATT. If anyone is interested in the language learning methods the blogger there (Khatz) advocates, they are all free and written in entertaining articles at www.alljapaneseallthetime.com . I don't work for him, and I'm not interested in learning Japanese right now although I will someday. They are basically universal principles, very infleunced by Stephen Krashen and his input hypothesis of language learning.

Does anyone have more links to entertaining and light-hearted things in Esperanto? Art is a good example, like simple poetry, or music with lyrics. Are there any strategy computer games that have an Esperanto language option? That would be soooo great!

Basically, I asked for blogs and stuff in the first post. And reading articles and the news is good for maybe a couple hours of the day at most. But I want to live my normal life through Esperanto while learning it, I don't just want to consume great literature from project Gutenberg. It's not feasible and would lead to burn out if I'm trying to simulate immersion. I'm going to try and collect a lot of things to do where Esperanto is simply the "background" of a more entertaining subject. Therefore, I won't be "studying."

And obviously, read all the esperantolingva boards on lernu and don't visit the english more than once a day.

bryanhaydukewich:Curious, would this be grammatically correct: jchthys, dankon por skribis en Esperanton. Vi komprenas.

Mi pensas, ke "Dankon por skribi en Esperanto" aŭ "Dankon por via skribado en Esperanto" estas ĝusta.

I think that "Dankon por skribi en Esperanto" or "Dankon por via skribado en Esperanto" is correct.

RiotNrrd:"EventEO" is a fantastic news site. For the most part it's pretty straight-up reporting*, and gets updated quite frequently.

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* Sometimes I can detect the hint of a bias in an occasional story. But it's rare (and not always in the same direction; they have more than one writer).

Actually, I've noticed that Eventeo hasn't been updated now for 6 days - hopefully that's just a blip and it'll be back to normal soon...

On the same topic, do you know much about who is doing the writing for that site? I've found it interesting that the articles aren't attributed to any authors, only cited if they're direct translations from another source or sources.