Pardonu min…Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?” is Esperanto for “Excuse me, do you speak Esperanto?” While most people will not understand this phrase, the language was created to be a universal tongue. In ...
Your April 2 editorial “Schools promote learning–at last” is misnamed. Though the changes you endorse in Chicago schools–requiring deficient students to repeat grades–are desirable, they don’t put ...
Regarding the letter titled “Esperanto, a key to other learning” (Voice, April 9): The proposal by its author, Kent Jones, that children study Esperanto in school before they study English ignores one ...
Littlewoods Direct says it's using a language constructed in the 19th Century, Esperanto, to launch a new clothing range. Who still learns this language, and why? "Behold my fantastic invention to ...
On a recent Friday evening, the Esperanto Society of New York convened in a rowhouse on Manhattan’s East 35th Street. The upper floors of the building seemed to house a bilingual preschool, going by ...
Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...
The singer said the language was easier to learn than other languages A Welsh rock singer has spoken of his love of Esperanto, the language created with the aim of bringing equality to international ...
If a Turk, a Cuban, an Armenian and an American were in the same room, which language would they speak to each other? English? Not always. They could be speaking in Esperanto, an artificial language ...