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Andreas CSEH (or Andreo Cxe, as he himself used to write it,) was born on the 12th of September 1895 in Marosludas in Hungary. Since 1918 this town has been called Ludus and it's location is now within the borders of Rumania. In 1919, he was ordained a priest but, as we will see, his true vocation was Esperanto.
Cseh, as I am going to call him, learned Esperanto in 1910 after responding to an advertisement in a newspaper and he very soon became an enthusiastic supporter of the Esperanto movement. When he began to actively promote the use of the language to other people, he soon became convinced that the key to the successful development and dissemination of Esperanto was to be found in teaching the language effectively to as many people as possible. In 1920, aged twenty five, he organized and presented his first Esperanto course in a town called Sibiu.
The people who attended his classes were mainly from working-class backgrounds, were of various nationalities, and spoke several different langauges, so Cseh accepted the fact that he would be unable to teach his course with the help of a single bilingual textbook. He therefore adopted the approach taken by his fellow Hungarian, Julio Baghy, when the latter was a prisoner of war in Siberia and was confronted with the same problem. Both of these great teachers used what is known in the Esperanto movement as "la rekta metodo" - the direct method - of teaching the language.
Cseh became totally absorbed in his teaching and propaganda activity and, in 1924, he obtained permission from his bishop to dedicate himself completely to Esperanto. He became the Secretary of the International Central Committee of the Esperanto movement in Geneva, and he also helped to organize the International Conferences (UKs) which were held at Geneva (1925), Gdansk (1927) and Budapest (1929). It was at the last of these he taught his first course in pedagogy, or teaching methodology.
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