So recently i was thinking "wow it'd be enat to spread Esperanto by starting a club in my school". But problem is, what would we do and how the heck would i design a course to teach it? Wondering if anybody could help me design a course or something, cause i think it'd be a great way to spread Esperanto a little bit.

Rooskey:So recently i was thinking "wow it'd be enat to spread Esperanto by starting a club in my school". But problem is, what would we do and how the heck would i design a course to teach it? Wondering if anybody could help me design a course or something, cause i think it'd be a great way to spread Esperanto a little bit.

What kind of institution is it (high school, college campus)?

I have some experience setting up clubs, and there's usually an official process for forming such organizations. Once you get past that point, try modeling the club after an existing language club to get a feel for what goes on.

If you plan on getting t-shirts or language supplies, you might consider member dues or a fundraising event.

But before you do any of this, you should find other students (at least 10 others) who would be willing to join the club.
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(Just to give you an idea of what a language club is like) I was in a Spanish club for a little bit, and it was pretty fun. But it was a different kind of club- we were required to have community service/donation hours. We occasionally had a fiesta where we listened to and sang Spanish music. Speaking Spanish was actually not our main focus (the meetings were held in English because of the varying degrees of Spanish fluency)

If you're shooting for something like a Esperanto-speaking club, consider instead an Esperanto Table, where people can just sit and discuss things in Esperanto. This kind of club is less formal and doesn't require any registration.

I tried this at my school back in the day and I failed miserably.

There is a university group that has been successful in drawing and retaining group members. They do it by really emphasizing the fun aspect over the language aspect, heavy emphasis on the fun aspect of learning. There is a bit more information here.

Starting a successful Esperanto club from nothing isn't an easy task. It helps if you are a super gregarious person with an engaging personality. I'm not, and I wasn't too successful. Darcy [from the link above] is, and it seems to me like her group has met with great success. I suggest you contact Darcy and ask her for some pointers. If you can't find her contact information, private message me and I'll give you her e-mail address.

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I just wanted to add, an Esperanto club is significantly different from something like a Spanish club because it doesn't have a pre-made audience. Most universities have Spanish language classes, and people taking the class might be interested in the club as a way to practice and have fun (but not really to learn Spanish, because they do that in class). In most cases there is no university-sponsored Esperanto class that will create an audience for a club. Therefore the club, unlike the Spanish club, will actually have to teach its members the language, plus offer fun activities. This is the really hard part. If you aren't good at teaching, or at encouraging people to self-learn, it will be hard to maintain people.

when i was living in barcelona with a group of anarchists, they asked me to teach them Esperanto repeatedly eventhough i was a beginner myself. i couldn't really be bothered (busy on lots of projects) but they asked me a few times

helps if you're in a big city/right type of people/have a good starter crowd (people interested, other speakers or friends).

Rooskey:So recently i was thinking "wow it'd be enat to spread Esperanto by starting a club in my school". But problem is, what would we do and how the heck would i design a course to teach it? Wondering if anybody could help me design a course or something, cause i think it'd be a great way to spread Esperanto a little bit.

If you've no experience, 'TTT' is a good guideline at first. 'Test, teach, test.' I.e. you review last lesson's material, teach something new, then review it. Get a standard textbook, and use it to plan what you'll teach each time. (There's a few around, even one freebie, 'The Esperanto Teacher', on gutenberg.org.) Find interesting and unusual texts, songs, audio samples. Where possible use real items to teach vocabulary. One of the main roles of a teacher is to keep the pupils motivated and interested. You gotta make the horse as thirsty as you can, talk up the water like a huckster, and then lead the horse to it.