Esperanto: like a native (video) Posted by Chuck Smith on Feb 21, 2015
Today, February 21, 2015 is International Mother Language Day. There are over 6,000 languages spoken on earth, a staggering amount! Would you have guessed that Esperanto is one of them? As you might have already seen on this blog, Esperanto is a living language with native speakers, and in celebration of International Mother Language Day…
The Tale of Two Esperanto iPhone Keyboards Posted by Chuck Smith on Jan 29, 2015
In September 2014, Apple opened up its mobile operating system, iOS 8 to third-party keyboards. Before this, the Ĝusta Klavaro was available, but it was a separate app where you typed and then copied and pasted its contents to where you wanted them–not very convenient. Due to this new feature of iOS 8, two Esperanto…
Trans in Esperanto Posted by Chuck Smith on Dec 27, 2014
Today I’d like to give a voice to a friend of mine who made a significant change in her life. Here is her article about her experiences in the Esperanto community. Sophia: A short introduction to the concept: being trans, an abbreviation for transgender or transsexual, means that I was born with a body that…
New comic about Esperanto! Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 1, 2014
The American comic artist, Dan Mazur, published a 12 page comic about native Esperanto speakers. The comic appeared as part of a comic anthology about subcultures. Libera Folio interviewed the author and you can read the Esperanto translation here. How did you get the idea? What was your objective? Earlier this year, I was beginning…
Learning Languages Through Esperanto Posted by Chuck Smith on Sep 2, 2014
Guest post by Judith Meyer, who normally blogs at learnlangs.com and currently crowdfunds a language course on Indiegogo. For many, Esperanto is an entry drug for language-learning. It’s so fun and easy and eventually you want the harder stuff. Most Esperanto speakers love learning languages, so it’s no surprise that there are some language-learning resources…
Lauren looks back at the challenge Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 27, 2014
About a month ago, I interviewed Lauren about her experience learning Esperanto in the Six Week Challenge. Now that the challenge is over, I’d like to revisit Lauren to see how things went. How has everything been studying Esperanto over the past weeks? To be honest, I wish I would have studied more so that…
Polyglot Gathering: much Esperanto spoken Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 23, 2014
On June 15-18, polyglots (people who speak multiple languages) came to Berlin to enjoy a rich program with like-minded individuals at the Polyglot Gathering (at which Transparent Language was also a sponsor). In fact, whenever I had to explain our event to outsiders, I usually just said, “Our participants speak an average of six languages.”…