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There are many uses for Esperanto.

Esperanto is a language. You can do with Esperanto


anything you can do with any other language ... with a
few advantages:
You don't have to spend a decade studying it. Twenty (20)
hours studying Esperanto are enough to start using the
language (with errors).
When you study any language, you are limited to the
countries that use that language. Esperanto is good in
most countries.
You may say that you can use English in most countries.
But the English speakers in those countries ... are they
willing to talk to you?
Will you be able to understand their versions of English?
People learn Esperanto to be able to speak to people from
other countries. When you visit their countries they will be
very happy to talk to you, and help you. Many will offer their
houses so you can stay a few days. They will help you to
know the place where they live.
Esperanto pronunciation is much easier than English.
You will be able to understand almost all speakers.
# Esperanto is a very good introduction to learning other
languages. Learning Esperanto and then other language,
will take less time that just learning the other language.
And while learning the other language, you could be
using Esperanto ... also to contact people that speak that
other language, who will be very happy to help you learn
their own language.
# You can read books and magazines from many countries.
# You can listen to music sang in Esperanto.
# You can play games with people from other countries.
# You can listen to Radio in Esperanto.
# You can participate in international forums.
# You can speak with Esperanto speakers using Skype.com
# Most things that exist in Internet, have also an Esperanto
version ... like the Esperanto Wikipedia (Vikipedio)
# Facebook, Myspace, and other social groups have their
groups of Esperanto speakers.

#Youtube has many videos in Esperanto, some of them to


help you learn Esperanto.
For more uses of Esperanto, see the page about
"Esperanto Resources" on the source list.
.

Source(s):
Resources
http://esperantofre.com/edu/iloj01a.htm
.
Videos to learn Esperanto
http://esperantofre.com/edu/kino01a.htm
.
http://esperantofre.com/edu/kino02e.htm
.
Springboard... to Language-learning:
http://www.springboard2languages.org/hom

The U.S. Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used in
wargames by mock enemy forces. In the summer of 1924, the American Radio
Relay League adopted Esperanto as its official international auxiliary language,
and hoped that the language would be used by radio amateurs in international
communications, but its actual use for radio communications was negligible.
Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international
organizations such as the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda; most others are
specifically Esperanto organizations. The largest of these, the World Esperanto
Association, has an official consultative relationship with the United Nations and
UNESCO. Esperanto is also the first language of teaching and administration of
one university, the International Academy of Sciences San Marino.
Esperanto community:
1,000 have Esperanto as their native language.
10,000 speak it fluently.
100,000 can use it actively.
1,000,000 understand a large amount passively.
10,000,000 have studied it to some extent at some time.
Esperanto is written with a modified version of the Latin alphabet, including six

letters with diacritics: , , , , (with circumflex) and (with breve). The


alphabet does not include the letters q, w, x, or y except in unassimilated foreign
names.
The 28-letter alphabet is:
abcdefghijklmnoprstuvz
The letters with diacritics (found in the "Latin-Extended A" section of the
Unicode Standard) once caused problems with printing and computing. This was
particularly true with the five letters with circumflexes, as they do not occur in
any other language. The diacritics are normally only a problem now with
computing situations such as internet chat groups and databases that are limited to
ASCII characters.
There are two principal workarounds to this problem, which substitute digraphs
for the accented letters. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, created an "hconvention", which replaces , , , , , and with ch, gh, hh, jh, sh, and u,
respectively. A more recent "x-convention" has gained ground since the advent of
computing. This system replaces each diacritic with an x after the letter,
producing the six digraphs cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, and ux.
English Esperanto IPA
Hello Saluton [sa.lu.ton]
Yes Jes [jes]
No Ne [ne]
Good morning Bonan matenon [bo.nan ma.te.non]
Good evening Bonan vesperon [bo.nan ves.pe.ron]
Good night Bonan nokton [bo.nan nok.ton]
Goodbye is revido [dis re.vi.do]
What is your name? Kiel vi nomias? [ki.el vi no.mi.das]
My name is John Mi nomias Johano [mi no.mi.das jo.ha.no]
How are you? Kiel vi fartas? [ki.el vi far.tas]
Do you speak Esperanto? u vi parolas Esperanton? [tu vi pa.ro.las es.pe.
ran.ton]
I don't understand you Mi ne komprenas vin [mi ne kom.pre.nas vin]
All right Bone [bo.ne]
Okay uste [dus.te]
Thank you Dankon [dan.kon]
You're welcome Nedankinde [ne.dan.kin.de]
Please Bonvolu [bon.vo.lu]
Bless you Sanon! [sa.non]
Congratulations Gratulon [ra.tu.lon]
What is that? Kio estas tio? [ki.o es.tas ti.o]
That is a dog Tio estas hundo [ti.o es.tas hun.do]
Peace! Pacon! [pa.tson]

Source(s):
http://esperanto-usa.org/?q=node/77
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:E

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