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Lifehacking at JES Posted by Chuck Smith on Jan 25, 2012
Judith Meyer told me that whenever she goes to an Esperanto event, she gets more ideas in that week than in the entire year that follows. So many new things to try, to read, to learn, to work on… There isn’t an Esperanto speaker that isn’t involved in an interesting project, or hasn’t found some…
First overseas Esperanto adventure by Nick Woods Posted by Chuck Smith on Jan 16, 2012
At the Urba Semajnfino, I met Nick Woods, who runs the Esperanto club at William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA, USA). Then I encouraged him to visit the Youth Esperanto Week (JES) in Gdansk, Poland and he took me up on the offer! But enough from me, learn more about the adventure from Nick himself! I’ve…
Esperanto Highlights of 2011 Posted by Chuck Smith on Jan 5, 2012
Now it’s January 2012. Below I list my ten most popular posts of last year. I’m really excited about this, because it’s often hard to find time to read every post and we have new readers who don’t have time to dig through the archives for the gems. So, here we go… 1. Start Reading…
Various Esperanto slogans around the world Posted by Chuck Smith on Dec 26, 2011
If someone were to ask you to summarize what is Esperanto in a short phrase, what would you say? Many groups have tried to answer this question and I’ll present some of their ideas. Probably the most famous slogan of all time is Esperanto: everyone’s second language. This is quite old back when everyone had…
More commercial and political influence Posted by Chuck Smith on Dec 15, 2011
In my last part about what could happen when more people speak Esperanto, I mentioned that there would be more interesting Esperanto meetings. Now I want to discuss the potential for greater commercial and political influence with more speakers. More commercial influence Currently many companies don’t develop Esperanto language courses, because they don’t think there’s…
A vision for more interesting Esperanto meetings Posted by Chuck Smith on Dec 13, 2011
Many Esperanto speakers (especially in Europe) are content with the state of Esperanto as it is now. You can travel to almost any major city in the world and find someone who speaks Esperanto. You can listen to music in Esperanto… there’s even a 24 hour Internet radio station. You can already chat online with…
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…