Esperanto - Stanford University
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Curriculum/Syllabus
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Guarantee!!
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If you come to class and do the homework, i personally guarantee that,
unless you have specific learning disabilities, you will be reading,
writing and conversing in Esperanto after only 3 Academic
Quarters of
study.
How many language courses can even guarantee that
you'll be able to speak using the past or future tense in just one
year,
let alone learn the past, present and future in the
first lesson?
So, that means that after about a year you could be ready to travel to any
country on this planet, and more than likely you would have a local
Esperanto contact.
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Requirements
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No language prerequisite (not even English). Students must buy a textbook,
at least a small dictionary and a notebook for homework and journal
entries. The textbook and dictionary options are in the materials list.
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Goals
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1st quarter
- To learn simple grammar
- To read and write with "level 1" vocabulary (500 roots -
that's a lot, but not too much).
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2nd quarter
- To learn more complex grammar
- To read and write with level 2 vocabulary (an additional 500 roots -
which brings the student to the level needed for most general conversations)
- To speak simple sentences
- To subscribe to an international journal in Esperanto and report on
the contents
- To begin learning about the culture of Esperanto
- To attend an esperanto event (club meeting, picnic, committee
meeting, congress... anything) and report on it in Esperanto
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3rd quarter
- To read, write and speak well enough to pass the Basic Level
international examination administered by Dorothy HOLLAND out of Santa
Barbara (optional - you don't have to take the exam, i just want to feel
that you're ready for it)
- To begin corresponding with an esperantist in a foreign country (not
one in which the student knows the local language or has local contacts
- that would be too easy :)
- To attend another Esperanto event
- To learn more esperanto history and world culture
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Time committment
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Classroom: 2 hours a week: Tuesday's 19:30 to 21:30 at the
Bechtel
International Center on the Stanford campus.
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Homework: 15 -> 30 minutes a day:
every single
day for the rest of your life! Or until you're good enough that you don't
need to anymore. For many people that means 1 year to be "fluent" (not
"expert")
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