Now that the website is live and growing, I'm feeling the need for a new challenge... anyone up for an Esperanto study group?
An international auxiliary language or interlanguage is a language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language.
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro in 1887. The word itself means 'one who hopes'. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
Although no country has adopted the language officially, it has enjoyed continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers. By some estimates, there are about a thousand native speakers.
Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television (Internacia Televido) and radio broadcasting [1]. Some state education systems offer elective courses in Esperanto, and in one university instruction is in the language (see Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino). There is evidence that learning Esperanto is a useful preparation for later language learning (see Propaedeutic value of Esperanto for more details).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
This is so "PulseWire" !!
by Maria Jett | October 3, 2007 at 6:14 PM
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I'm down.
Sign me up! I would be willing to host study group.