ESPERANTO

What is Esperanto?

Esperanto is a language designed to facilitate communication among people of different lands and cultures. It was first published in 1887 by Dr. Lazaro Ludoviko Zamenhof (1859 -1917) under the pseudonym "Dr. Esperanto", meaning 'one who hopes', and this is the name that stuck as the name of the language itself.

Unlike national languages, Esperanto allows communication on an equal footing between people, with neither having the usual cultural advantage accruing to a native speaker.

Esperanto doesn't belong to any specific country or people. It belongs equally to everybody who speaks it, acting as a bridge between cultures.

Esperanto is also considerably easier to learn than national languages, since its design is far simpler and more regular than such languages.

Why Esperanto?

In practical use for more than a hundred years, Esperanto has proved to be a genuinely living language, capable of expressing all facets of human thought.

Make friends all over the world, for instance, by having penpals in distant countries and other cultures. If you like traveling, you can take along "Pasporta Servo", which lists speakers of Esperanto in more than 70 countries. They are interested in accommodating you, free of charge and might also show you a bit of their town and country.

As an international language spoken all over the world, you can use it to make contacts through Internet. Chat programs, like IRQ, ICQ, NetMeeting, etc., can be used.

Learn about other cultures through a truly international medium. Esperanto has a vast literature, both translated and original on countless subjects, and there are also many periodicals and regular radio broadcasts in Esperanto.

Learning Esperanto?

Esperanto has a simple, regular and extremely flexible structure, and a vocabulary of international character. This makes it possible to reach fluency much more quickly than in any other language - it's up to ten times easier to learn, according to scientific studies.

Courses and textbooks exist in most countries and languages. Because Esperanto is so easy, you can also learn it on your own or through a free postal course or Internet course.

Contact the group or association in your town or country. We'll be also pleased to give you any information or help we can.

Esperanto Hymn

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PINHALENSE ESPERANTO GROUP

What is "PEG" - Pinarbara Esperanto-Grupo?

Our Esperanto Group came into being in 1987, when some people interested in studying the international language got together and decided to carry out the first basic course on the language in our city.

In May 1998, we began our second basic course, which ended in September of the same year. More recently the same class has started an advanced course, specifically directed to conversation in Esperanto, because the structures and grammar of the language were covered thoroughly during the basic course.

At the same time, a new class has begun a new basic course. Therefore, our Esperanto Group carries out two courses: a basic and an advanced one. 

Purposes

Learn the international language in order to have a means of communication that allows people to contact other people anywhere in the world, through correspondence, travels, and congresses, and through the Internet itself.

Share in the universal culture through books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and scientific articles and issues.

Participate in an worldwide community, whose greatest link through Esperanto is brotherhood that joins together people from the most distant and different places of this world by only one language: Esperanto.

Collaborate in spreading Esperanto, so that it can be more and more well known and shared by everybody in the world.

Courses

Basic course, where the student learns thoroughly the basis of the language, through up-to-date audiovisual learning sets. At the end of this course, the student has knowledge of all Esperanto structures, rules, grammar and pronunciation. He can skillfully read, write, and understand Esperanto.

Advanced course, which uses a modern method, comparable to those of the greatest language schools. This enables the student to speak Esperanto fluently, so that he can take part in a conversation as if he were speaking in his native language.

Contact

We are available for contact, in order to exchange knowledge, methods, information and everything else that can take our international language to the status it deserves in the universal community.