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10 years ago: Welcome to Esperantoland! Posted by on Sep 30, 2011

Let’s go back in time back to 2001. Why? That was my first Esperanto meeting, in August 2001… To put things in perspective, I first heard about Esperanto in January 2001, then started learning Esperanto the next month, and founded the Esperanto Wikipedia in November 2001. Busy year! Well, I wrote an article about that…

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TEAM: Biggest Slovakian band sang in Esperanto? Posted by on Sep 22, 2011

Did you know that the current editor of the magazine Esperanto, Stano Marček, once was the manager of the most popular rock band in former Czechoslovakia? Listen to his story about how they got involved with Esperanto and what happened. History of the Esperanto band TEAM’ The music group TEAM was founded in 1980. Three…

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Wikipedia conference in Esperanto (Oct 26-30, 2011) Posted by on Sep 14, 2011

[Legu ĉi tiun intervjuon en ĝia originala Esperanto ĉe Libera Folio] At the end of October, I’ll be flying to Svitavy (Czech Rupublic) to give the keynote address at the Vikimanio (Wikimania) conference. This will take place in their beautiful Esperanto museum. Now, without further ado, an interview with Pavla Dvořáková, the head organizer. What…

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Summer Studies in Slovakia? Super! Posted by on Sep 8, 2011

Today, I’m happy to have Peter Baláž with me. He’s the head organizer of the Summer Esperanto Study, which recently took place in Slovakia. I hear it’s quite different from other Esperanto events and very friendly to beginners, but yet also has a lot of activities for the fluent speaker. If I had to describe…

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Subtitle challenge to the Esperanto community Posted by on Sep 1, 2011

[English below] Hodiaŭ mi ŝatus provi ion novan… mi volas montri kiom vaste oni parolas Esperanton ĉirkaŭ la mondo. La filmo tradukita ĉe universalsubtitles.org, kiu estis plej ofte tradukita, estas nun 100% en 50 lingvoj. Jen la defio… mi metis la muzikvideon “Berlino sen vi” de Inicialoj DC tie kaj petis subtekstojn per tri diversaj…

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