is a novella which uses basic grammar and vocabulary in the first chapter and builds up to expert Esperanto by the end, including word lists so that beginners may easily follow along.

He also presents the idea that, once one has learned enough vocabulary to express himself, it is easier to think clearly in Esperanto than in many other languages.

Estimates of Esperanto speakers range from 10, 000 to 2, 000, 000 active or fluent speakers, as well as perhaps a thousand native speakers, that is, people who learned Esperanto from birth as one of their native languages.

Esperanto is currently the language of instruction of the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino.

There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a superior foundation for learning languages in general, and some primary schools teach it as preparation for learning other foreign languages.

Esperanto is also the first language of teaching and administration of one university, the International Academy of Sciences San Marino.

As a constructed language, Esperanto is not genealogically related to any ethnic language.

Typologically, Esperanto has prepositions and a free pragmatic word order that by default is subject – verb – object.

Stress is always on the second-last vowel in fully Esperanto words unless a final vowel o is elided, which occurs mostly in poetry.

Esperantujo () or Esperantio is a term ( meaning " Esperanto-land ") used by speakers of the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto to refer to the Esperanto community and the activities going on in the language.

That declaration stated, among other things, that the basis of the language should remain the Fundamento de Esperanto (" Foundation of Esperanto ", a group of early works by Zamenhof ), which is to be binding forever: nobody has the right to make changes to it.

Many Esperantists believe this declaration stabilising the language is a major reason why the Esperanto speaker community grew beyond the levels attained by other constructed languages and has developed a flourishing culture.

Esperanto is credited with influencing or inspiring several later competing language projects, such as Occidental ( 1922 ) and Novial ( 1928 ).

* 1859: Lazar Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, is born in Białystok, Russia ( now Poland ).

* 1905: The first Universala Kongreso ( World Congress ) is held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, with 688 participants and conducted entirely in Esperanto.

The Fundamento de Esperanto is published.

The Ĉekbanko Esperantista ( Esperantist Checking Bank ) is founded in London, using the spesmilo, an auxiliary Esperanto currency based on the gold standard.

* 1908: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, the World Esperanto Association, is founded by Hector Hodler, a 19-year-old Swiss Esperantist.

After the Great War, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language, following a report by Nitobe Inazō, an official delegate of League of Nations during the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague.

In the early 1920s, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language.

The French delegate to the League of Nations vetoes the use of Esperanto as its working language, leaving English and French.

The League considered adopting Esperanto as their working language and actively encouraging its use, but this proposal was never acted on.

In the early 1920s, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language.

SAT uses Esperanto as its working language and aims through the use of Esperanto to enable progressive individuals, organizations and workers of all countries to exchange ideas and meet on the basis of equality across national barriers.

" a ) to utilise the international language Esperanto for the class aims of the worldwide working class ; b ) to promote mutual relations among members in the best and most worthy way possible, in order to instill in them a strong sense of human solidarity ; c ) to instruct, educate and enlighten the members in such a way as to make them the most capable and best of the so-called internationalists ; d ) to serve as an intermediary in relations among organisations using other languages but having aims analogous to those of SAT ; e ) to be an intermediary and supporter in the creation of an Esperanto literature consisting both of translations and original texts, and which reflects the ideal of our association.

Although the proposal for the League to accept Esperanto as their working language was accepted by ten delegates, the French delegate used his veto power to block the issue.

While working on his translation, which was precisely faithful to the original form, he put the latent potential of the planned language to the test, thereby giving significant impetus to the further development of Esperanto poetry.

The working language of the meeting is Esperanto, and the meeting covers diverse activities — tourism, socialising, yoga, choral singing, theatre, computing, using an abacus, Breton language for beginners, and origami.

* La Espero ( anthem of the language Esperanto )

In 2007 Esperanto was the 32nd language that adhered to the " Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment ( CEFR )".

On February 22, 2012, Google Translate added Esperanto as its 64th language.

There was a proposal to make Esperanto its official language.

Hanotaux did not like how the French language was losing its position as the international language and saw Esperanto as a threat, effectively wielding his veto power to block the decision.

In his work, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler specifically mentioned Esperanto as an example of a language that would be used by an International Jewish Conspiracy once they achieved world domination.

He denounced Esperanto as " the language of spies " and had Esperantists exiled or executed.

Fascist Italy, however, allowed the use of Esperanto finding its phonology similar to that of Italian and publishing some touristic material in the language.

Esperanto has never been a secondary official language of any recognized country.

In addition, the self-proclaimed artificial island micronation of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968.

In the summer of 1924, the American Radio Relay League adopted Esperanto as its official international auxiliary language, and hoped that the language would be used by radio amateurs in international communications, but its actual use for radio communications was negligible.

In the end the Committee concluded that no language was completely acceptable, but that Esperanto could be accepted " on condition of several modifications to be realized by the permanent Commission in the direction defined by the conclusions of the Report of the Secretaries Couturat and Léopold Leau and by the Ido project.

Esperanto's inventor, L. L. Zamenhof, had suggested in an 1894 proposition for a Reformed Esperanto several changes that Ido adopted: eliminating the accented letters and the accusative case, changing the plural to an Italianesque-i, and replacing the table of correlatives with more Latinate words.

In Argentina the " Programme Passport " was launched, which turned into " Pasporta Servo " ( a network of Esperanto speakers around the globe willing to host other Esperanto speakers for limited time ) several years later

Modern UEA is the result of a decades lasting process of several attempts to give the Esperanto movement a proper organization.

From 1898, national Esperanto associations were found in several countries, with the French one being the first.

It consisted of some eminent speakers from several countries and had to guard the evolution of the language Esperanto.

One of ESF's educational projects is lernu !, a website hosting several free multilanguage courses designed to teach Esperanto.

* Lou Harrison, who incorporated styles and instruments from many world cultures in his music, used Esperanto titles and / or texts in several of his works, most notably La Koro-Sutro ( 1973 ).

Reto Rossetti, a well-known figure and author in the Esperanto movement, was asked to help and through publicity in Esperanto magazines and to the surprised of the organisers, several groups contacted the Eisteddfod committee.

Esperanto literature began before the official publication of the constructed language Esperanto ; the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, translated poetry and prose into the language as he was developing it as a test of its completeness and expressiveness, and published several translations and a short original poem as an appendix to the first book on the language, Unua Libro.

Harold Brown wrote several modern plays in Esperanto.

* The Esperanto article in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica contains criticism of several features by Henry Sweet.

He was a strong advocate for the use of Esperanto in the cause of world peace, translating several of his publications into Esperanto.

Translations are available in Cornish, Esperanto, French, German, Hawaiian, Irish, Italian, Jèrriais, Latin, Lingua Franca Nova, Low German, Manx, Mennonite Low German, Borain Picard, Scots, Swedish, Ulster Scots and Welsh and several others translations are being prepared.

Gregg shorthand has been adapted to several languages, including Afrikaans, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, and Tagalog.

The Swedish parliamentarian Edvard Wavrinski, the international president of the IOGT, wrote a series of articles on Esperanto for the IOGT publication Goodtemplarbladet, and several leading members of the alcohol-abstention movement showed interest.

By the 1930s the Norwegian Esperanto League had grown to a membership of several thousand, with activities throughout Norway and with many participants in Esperanto courses.