How to learn Esperanto La Internacia Lingvo

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FREE courses on the 'net:

Lernu.Net - a new (in 2003) and excellent course for learning the language. It has just about everything.
The Free Esperanto Course (FEC) (Marko RAUHAMAA) - The link for this is sometimes flaky. Please try again if you don't get it the first time.
the ESPVIVA Course (Ian FANTOM) - Under Construction but with many interesting elements working.
"A Key to the International Language". (R. Kent JONES and Christopher M. A. ZERVIC) - a one-page (one looong page) description of the language.
Esperanto HyperCourse (Mike URBAN) - An old but venerable introduction to the international language Esperanto.

FREE Postal course, "using paper":

Free postal course (ELNA) - Scroll to the middle of the page for details about where to write.

In classrooms:

NASK - Summer Esperanto Workshop - (ELNA) - Brattleboro, VT - World renowned as the best 3 weeks in "Esperantoland"
Stanford University - Stanford Students must register to get credit, but FREE and open to anyone in the communnity.
Higher Institutions that teach Esperanto in North America (Louis JANUS) - Just type in "Esperanto" - From this page you can search our database on colleges and universities in North America that teach Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) during the regular school year.

From Books:

ELNA - Esperanto League for North America sells many books and lists them on this page.

Video Tape Course

Pasporto Al La Tuta Mondo - a novel approach to learning the language that is really fun.

Other lists of resources:

ELNA - Esperanto League For North America
Learning Resources (USEJ) - US Esperanto Youth Organization