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Date Posted: 09:36:01 11/05/99 Fri
Author: GF
Subject: Saluton, amikoj!

Saluton, azula amikoj.

Mi estas hodiau^(today) de Esperantoland.

Vi estas de la Azula, ne?

Mi estas tro(also) de la Azula.

Tui(That) estas bona!

Jes, tui estas tre bona, dankon.

G^is la revido. (Goodbye.) (Literally: Until the re-seeing.)

I've been dabbling in Esperanto off and on for a couple of years. About a week after I started, I met a woman at a tennis club who was from Russia and who spoke almost no English. I know one word in Russian, Stolichnaya, so we weren't conversing very effectively. I know a little German and Spanish, so I mentioned that without much hope. And then I jokingly mentioned Esperanto and she smiled broadly and began speaking it. I told her in Esperanto that I spoke it only "malbona", but we actually had a little conversation and I really got a charge out of it. Evidently, they actually teach it in some of the schools there!

A couple of really cool things about Esperanto are that it's the easiest language in the world to learn, literally (you could be halfway fluent in a weekend), and if you know a little Spanish, you can guess at what many words are, and you're exactly right much of the time. And one thing that just occurred to me recently is that when you're speaking with someone in Esperanto, no one really has the advantage, since it's no one's native language.

If you're interested in being an Esperantoist, and you want to be conversant in about an hour, there's an online course here:
esperanto.org/espviva/angla/ev_l1.htm

G^isla! GF

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