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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6178 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 15 05 April 2010 at 5:03am | IP Logged | ||
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The 550+ page book was written in 1932 by Dr. Benson, completely in Esperanto. It's sort of a reader, starting as pictures and words, later in the form of a comic book, and finally as a story. Much of the book is read while showing the "slide" or part of the book that is being read on Youtube. This has got to make Esperanto even easier to learn (if that's possible...) !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuQEeE5WgNw 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 6991 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 2 of 15 05 April 2010 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is great very easy to watch. My Esperanto study is off at he moment while I
concentrate on French and Mandarin. However, it's so easy to get drawn into it. Beautiful language. Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5821 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 15 05 April 2010 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Make it easier to learn? No chance.
The main reason people don't like native-language instruction in languages is that rules are complicated and there's no way to be clear, concise and completely correct at the same time. This isn't a problem if you have a language that has been planned. I'm not a fan of Esperanto and I don't intend to ever learn it, but it just seems crazy to teach it this way. Use what people already know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Blunderstein Triglot Pro Member Sweden schackhandeln.se Joined 5228 days ago 60 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Esperanto Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 15 05 April 2010 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wouldn't choose that type of material either, but in some cases it's all there is.
Also, some people obviously find it useful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6280 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 5 of 15 05 April 2010 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I heard of Africans using this book to learn Esperanto, because it's out-of-copyright (i.
e. free) and doesn't pre-suppose knowledge of a European language. There are learning materials for Esperanto in Swahili and in some languages of Western Africa, but we shouldn't forget that there are so many different languages in Africa and they are not as closely related as European languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 6991 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 6 of 15 06 April 2010 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I downloaded the book it has a dictionary at the back with translations in 30 languages.
Really I think the book is very intuitive to use. Due to the illustrations it's a beautiful piece of work. Obviously the author has spent a long time thinking about how to build up the vocabulary and rules naturally - more a work of love than anything. I would definitely say this book could make Esperanto extremely easy to use, especially with the amount of audio that's read on youtube. You could assimilate a lot of the rules naturally and then later get out the grammar book. I just wish the whole book was read like the longer texts near the end. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6956 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 7 of 15 06 April 2010 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I think the book is great. Thank you for the information.
I find I can simply read the book. No high level of concentration is required. While the approach might not work so well for some languages with complicated grammar and case systems, it is effective with Esperanto as the grammar is regular. I have added the book to my Esperanto resources. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5657 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 15 06 April 2010 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
For beginners of Esperanto the video lessons of this Esperanto textbook could be very useful because it's a combination of images + text + audio. So a learner can in three ways together aquire new vocabulary (and basic grammar). I would recommend such a resource in combination with other study material. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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