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Being vegetarian in Esperanto Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 6, 2013
I still remember my first thoughts about vegetaranismo in Esperanto. I had this conversation. Anna: Why do you eat meat? Me: It’s too difficult to always find a vegetarian option. Anna: That’s a stupid reason. Every Esperanto conference has a vegetarian option. Why aren’t you a vegetarian here? Me: I never thought of that! After…
Measuring up in the USA Posted by Chuck Smith on Aug 26, 2013
Are you soon planning to visit the USA? Perhaps you already live there, but don’t yet know how to talk about non-metric measurements in Esperanto. Well, believe it or not, sometimes the American customary units system is easier to use in practice. For example, if I’m riding in the car with someone heading to an…
Esperanto: the second language in OUYA Posted by Chuck Smith on Jul 31, 2013
Since the following article is about a project I’m personally involved in, I will translate the article about it from Libera Folio, an Esperanto news source. After English, Esperanto became the second language, which appeared in the recently launched game console OUYA, a system crowdfunded by private hobbyists. An app for listening to Esperanto radio…
Nicole, I am your Esperanto father Posted by Chuck Smith on Jul 3, 2013
Last week we had an interview with Nicole Klünder, a third generation native Esperanto speaker. It became so popular that a Belgian radio station even picked up on it to interview a local native Esperanto speaker (in Dutch). A few days later, Nicole’s father Helmut Klünder wrote me to let me know of some factual…
3rd gen native Esperanto speaker: Nicole! Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 18, 2013
Some people don’t believe that native Esperanto speakers exist. Would you then believe that I’ve found a third generation native Esperanto speaker?! Nicole Klünder’s great-grandfather learned Esperanto, taught it natively to his kids, who taught it natively to his kids, who taught it natively to Nicole… awesome! It seems that it’s now becoming a tradition…
iOS Esperanto keyboard review: Ĝusta Klavaro Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 11, 2013
Last night, I was enjoying watching Apple’s Keynote about their exciting, upcoming products, including the new design and features in their upcoming iOS 7 operating system (the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). On the language side, it will even come with Dutch, Italian and Korean dictionaries as well as a…
How artificial is Esperanto anyway? Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 4, 2013
I always find it curious when people say that Esperanto isn’t interesting, because it’s artificial. The most prominent time I encountered this objection was during a visit of the European parliament building in Strasbourg (France), where many interpreter booths are set up to translate between the various EU languages. On the side, the tour guide…