La Mondo Ne Havas Atendejon: Esperanto Moves Ahead

» bonamiko - Scratching the surface

There are so many internet resources that the article does not do the language justice. A good starting place might be the ELNA site, www.esperanto-usa.org. From there you can jump to the Esperanto Yellow Pages, the FAQ, or just cycle through the ring of connected pages at the bottom of the page.

Phil

-- posted by bonamiko

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» rkhen - Re: Scratching the surface

Hi Phil,

As I pointed out in the article, my theme was real Web pages that are written in Esperanto, in sharp contrast to Web pages about Esperanto. Introspective pages are useful for beginners and Esperantists, but they don't represent any movement of the language toward its stated goal, which is to become a living language used for daily affairs, rather than a "toy" language manipulated on a hobby basis by aficionados.

Since I wrote that article, I've taken to running an Esperanto search on whatever topic I happen to be interested in at the moment, and it's providing me the same kind of thrill I used to get from surfing the Net in its formative years. For example, a few days ago I ran "bangho" (banjo) and "kaj" (and, used to strain out random hits in other languages), and enjoyed a nice, in-depth lesson on the history of the Mongolian horse-head banjo. That's not something I would have thought to be interested in, but the EO-net put the information between my hands, making me smarter and happier than I was before.

And _that's_ an excellent reason to learn a language. Especially one so easily-learned as this one.

Thanks for stopping by, Phil.

-- posted by rkhen

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