Hello.
I'm new to Lernu.net, though I've known about it for a while.

I'm a guy who is interested in learning and training several languages. So far I'm pretty good both in Spanish and in English, with a wee bit of study in French and Japanese. I have also been wanting to get into Esperanto.

But well, this thread I'm starting is because I'm looking for suggestions on where or when to start teaching children a language as Esperanto.

See, I'm a student. A Digital Arts student. Perhaps a rather unrespected profession but still it is my love.

Being so I decided to present a multimedia project for school that consists in creating a "Dora the Explorer" or "Nihao Kai Lan" Substitute, but this being obviously centered around Esperanto.

This because I want to use it as an excuse to study the language and because I think it would be great to have a sort of beta of such a mascot for, perhaps, someday developing a complete show around it.

However since my Esperanto is nonexistent for now it would be disrespectful to make the 'show' without much accuracy. Thus why I ask how and when would you teach a child the language.

Or perhaps, is there someone that would be interested in collaborating with me as a Esperanto Checker or even a voice actor if necessary?

Actually, it seems to me that a project such as this should be led by someone with experience in teaching Esperanto, with help of course from digital arts people. Would you consider yourself qualified to create a course in Japanese?

Rogir:Actually, it seems to me that a project such as this should be led by someone with experience in teaching Esperanto, with help of course from digital arts people. Would you consider yourself qualified to create a course in Japanese?

In a course of Japanese I already have someone to turn to if the case were that I was making a Japanese Educational Game.

This is a school project mainly. The Esperanto idea came into being by selfishly wanting an excuse to study Esperanto and call it school work.

The part that matters to me is where I program and create everything inside the application so it works in a way that would help the purpose of it.

Whether or not I teach Esperanto correctly in this project would be irrelevant since my grade wouldn't be considered on what the "client ordered", but in my skills in my course.

I chose to opt for Esperanto so I could, myself, learn bits of the language through the creation of the 'show'.

Having said that I was expecting to, perhaps, find someone I could give the scripts of the show/game/multimedia so any Esperanto discrepancies would be ironed out were I ever to commit a horrible mistake.

Otherwise tips on where to start teaching children the language or when would have helped me in determining where to start studying myself, creating a sort of mirror of my learning in the program/show script.

This is by no means a commercial project, thus why I am "leading it".

But still, even if it is a sort of mock up product I'd rather have accuracy inside the content than having it being all over the place.

Dankon por legaĵo.

I would be willing to offer my time for language correction, and possibly even my voice.

Though I am very far from a great Esperantist, I'd still enjoy helping a little and seeing how it goes

Maybe take a look at the "Babili Esperante" course on the children's area of this site. It uses short Esperanto stories that are suitable for children, and it could be adapted to your project. Write to teamo@lernu.net to get permission to adapt it, if you are interested.