Russ's Esperanto Links...

sites I'm finding interesting as I study Esperanto (I think officially I started on 2003-04-11 :)

AUSTIN-SPECIFIC

• Ĉefpaĝo de la Esperanto-Klubo de Aŭstino (Esperanto Club of Austin) which meets at 3pm on most Sunday afternoons, normally at Texspresso (2700 W Anderson). (We met at Flightpath (51st and Duval) for a while when the air conditioning was broken at Texspresso in the summer.) Check mailing list to be sure; first sunday of month is often in English and quite newbie-friendly; other meetings spend a lot of time talking in Esperanto, but newbies still welcome.
• esperanto-austin io.com retpoŝtlisto — the group's mailing list includes info on Austin meetings, etc.
• Mia nuna taglibro ĉe livejournal (angle kaj Esperante)
• (mia arkaika movabletype-taglibro, kiu mi ne uzas nun, sed ĝi havas multan esperantan tekston)
• IRC: Mi, Greg, Dan, John, Darin, ktp ofte babilas en #esperanto ĉe irc.distributed.net

GENERAL/LINKSITES/etc: (you can find zillions of sites from these sites)

• Esperanto.net
• Don Harlow's massive links site
• Esperanto-usa.org official ELNA site; sells books
• Steve MacGregor's esperanto site (and go site!)
• edukado.net

COURSES: (These are great to work through. Pronounce words aloud, don't just read silently.)

• Lernu.net has great content, and they are continually improving it (e.g. Mozilla support exists now!) Use the menus on left to find good stuff like Tools/Grammar exercises and Tools/Vocabulary drills. Excellent content. As of 2003-06-23, I have completed the Ana Pana (which has human tutor to grade your work) and Jen Nia IJK courses.
• Curso de esperanto is an excellent downloadable windows app with excellent randomized practice drills with good sound samples and human tutor to grade your work
• Institute of Esperanato has lots of sound files of its sample text; also note the hard-to-see red links to vocabulary and exercises on each lesson page.
• Esperanto HyperCourse
• Esperanto Course by Jonathan Badger
• Esperanto-ASAP
• Esperanto Viva, a free correspondence course
• Esperanto Course is 21 webpages, no frills
• The Gerda course is an intermediate-level email course
• travlang has a section of useful travellers phrases; click on the esperanto flag

Do multiple courses concurrently to get more diverse input. A good fun way to learn the numbers, by the way, is to say them aloud when you see them while driving/traveling around. The real world is full of random numbers for practice! (Street signs, license plates, addresses and phone numbers on signs, etc.) Likewise for colors and other classes of words.

DICTIONARIES/WORD LISTS:

• Lernu.net has a dictionary form in the upper right of its pages
• Hejma Vortaro has lots of objects found in the home
• travlang dictionary
• Traduku dictionary
• conversational phrases from austin mailing list
• Sounds of the World's Animals
• Australian and New Zealand Esperanto Dictionary
• The Alternative Esperanto Dictionary has sexual slang
• How To Talk Dirty In Esperanto
• Insult monger
• Dictionary of Computer Terminology
• Komputada leksikono is another dictionary of computer terms
• lingvo.org/traduku translator (including morse code and flags!)
• Basis-Woordenschat Esperanto (Esperanto/Dutch dictionary)
• vortaro.org
• krokodilo.de havas ilustritan eo-eo-vortaron
• Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko
• Akademia Vortaro
• Bazaj radikoj Esperanto-Esperanto

GO/CHESS:

• wikipedia entry on go
• playgo.to's Esperanto guide to go
• Internet go dictionary of go terms has esperanto but doesn't seem to work well
• esperanto chess terms

REFERENCE/MISCELLANEOUS/ETC:

• Why/how I got into conlangs (short article by me)
• wikipedia, a very nice online encyclopedia
• Don Harlow's Esperanto Book has lots of fascinating history etc. Highly recommended.
• Don Harlow's description of affixes
• Don Harlow's links to literature
• A Scottish Poet in Esperanto (essay by Nobel prize candidate William Auld)
• Essay on American speaking Esperanto in Japan
• Esperanto on a whim is one page summary
• Google esperanta
• An ok Wired article about conlangs
• Polish Esperanto Radio has broadcasts you can hear
  • Main page for Polish Esperanto Radio
  • Text for the beginning of the most recent broadcast
  • Archives
• Radio Esperanto
• Ĉina Radio Esperanto: read news articles in esperanto
• Why Geoff and Justin Rye don't like Esperanto
• Kuro5hin overview article with a variety of comments, some bizarrely hostile and ignorant
• 2000 and 2003 Slashdot articles, similarly with variety of comments
• thesmokinggun's copy of 1960s US Army document on esperanto
• livejournal esperanto community blog
• blog from another esperanto learner who philosophizes as he goes
• Esperanto Society of Chicago
• Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village
• Chuck Smith homepage and blog
• Ĝangalo (gxangalo.com) has various articles and online games e.g. Esperanto Hangman
• Guardian article about Esperanto
• Pittsburgh City Paper interview about Esperanto

MAILING LISTS ETC (I recommend subscribing!)

• 102_ESPERANTO yahoogroups list
• Texas_Esperantists yahoogroups list
• esperanto-austin io.com mailing list includes info on Austin meetings (which are at Texspresso at 3pm on most Sunday afternoons; check list to be sure)
• Some Austin friends and cow-orkers chat sometimes in IRC channel #esperanto at irc.distributed.net
• There are esperanto newsgroups, e.g. soc.culture.esperanto

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