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Fun Esperanto weekend in Harrisburg, PA Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 29, 2011
Last weekend, 16 people from 3 countries came out to Harrisburg, PA to speak Esperanto together, including the Internet-famous musician, Manekeno. 8 came from Pennsylvania, 2 each from Germany, New Jersey and Virginia with 1 each coming from Mexico and Maryland. I also found it interesting that exactly half of the participants were vegetarians. In…
How to count in Esperanto Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 19, 2011
So, want to impress your friends by being about to count in the most widely spread planned language? Let’s start by counting to 10… I’ll even throw in some memory hints for free! And yes, I’m a software developer, so I’ll start counting at zero. 🙂 Numbers 0-10 0 – nul (sounds like null) 1…
Universal Language in Berlin cinema Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 11, 2011
Two days ago, I had the pleasure of showing the documentary The Universal Language in Berlin. Amusingly enough, a few months ago, I saw a deal to rent a movie theater room for €49 (US$66) and thought that would be cool. I plan to use more coupons there for two screenings of Going Cardboard, once…
Esperanto Wikimania in Svitavy Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 7, 2011
Last week, I participated in a historic event: the Esperanto Wikipedia conference in Svitavy, Czech Republic on Oct 26-30, 2011. Esperanto speakers travelled there from all over Europe to work together on Wikipedia and learn more about the project. On the second morning, Czech national TV interviewed Miroslav Malovec about how he started the Czech…
German Esperanto Association to win €1000? Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 4, 2011
A bank is now running a campaign to donate a million euros (US$1.4 million!) to non-profit organizations in Germany. Their idea is to donate a thousand euros to the thousand most liked organizations. Martin Schäffer entered the German Esperanto Association (GEA) into the contest. In the beginning, it was unclear whether people outside Germany would…
10 years ago: Mia vojaĝo al Germanio Posted by Chuck Smith on Oct 31, 2011
I step off the airplane in Düsseldorf and find myself immersed in German airport signs directing me to passport control and baggage claim, when the memories of planning this trip return to me. I had been wanting to go to the Internationale Spieltage Spiel (Toy and Game Fair) for several years now, the largest board…
Pirates in Berlin parliament? Posted by Chuck Smith on Oct 19, 2011
Have you heard about the recent revolution in Germany? No? A little while ago, 15 candidates of the Pirate Party were voted into the local Berlin parliament with 9% of the city’s votes! The amusing part was that this was quite a surprise to the party itself. You see, Germany has a multi-party system where…