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Lessons
Here are most of the lessons for the class.
Please print copies of the appropriate part of these web pages and bring it to class. If it is your very first time coming to class, please print all of the pages of “lesson zero”, and the pronunciation pages, and bring that no matter what lesson the rest of the class is doing.
- Read this first! Pronunciation. And extra pronunciation help for “Americans”.
- Lesson Zero - Grammar - Warning! Do not attempt this at home without a teacher for explanation. The International Language is simple, but not too simple.
- Basics
- Grammar In General - not just Esperanto
- Endings - how to make words
- Affixes
- Pronouns
- Word Order
- A few More things
- Lesson 1 - Sentence Building - Vocabulary Building & Coloquialisms - After seeing lesson zero and the simple structure of Esperanto the communication begins very quickly.
- Lesson 2 - Affixes - Vocabulary Building - With the regularity of Esperanto, affixes will help build vocabulary extraordinarily fast.
- Lesson 3 - Correlatives - Vocabulary Building - Esperanto has a simple way to connect some of the most commonly used words in any language.
- Lesson 4 - Participles - Vocabulary Building and the last Grammar lesson - Web version in progress!
- Mini lesson - Vocabulary Building - Lesson on "ig" and "iĝ" ["igx"]. Web version in progress!
- Mini lesson - Vocabulary Building - Lesson on "si" Web version in progress!
- Mini lesson - Vocabulary Building - Lesson on "pli... ol..." Web version in progress!
And don't forget the following general rules:
- Don't translate words, translate ideas.
- If anything seems weird... it's probably the irregularity of English that's confusing you. (Try the same word/sentence in the plural/singular or masculine/feminine or as a question/not or negated to see the irregularity of English.)