Esperanto at Stanford University

Curriculum - Syllabus

Classes at Stanford > Curriculum / Syllabus

Requirements

No language prerequisite (not even English).

Also, students should buy the textbook, at least a small dictionary, a notebook for homework and journal entries and in later quarters subscribe to at least one international journal. All the options are in the materials list.

Goals

1st quarter

To learn simple grammar
To read and write with "level 1" vocabulary (500 roots - that's a lot, but not too much).

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

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

Time committment

Classroom:

2 hours a week: Tuesday's 19:30 to 21:30 at the International Center on the Stanford campus.

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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