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Learn Esperanto

1,000 Esperanto roots. Several times that many words.

Esperanto is agglutinative, so a frequency course of 1,000 roots plus the 40 official affixes hands you a vocabulary several times that size. We teach both halves deliberately.

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Quick taster

3-word session

A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.

Graded reader

Mi iras al la domo

Only words the course has taught

. . .

I am going to the house. My friend says that he sees me. We talk and everything is good.

Tap any word for its word page

Read Esperanto from the first week.

Ten graded readers under a strict vocabulary ceiling: no word appears before the course has taught it, which in a sixteen-rule language means you are reading real Esperanto absurdly early.

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Grammar that treats you like an adult.

Paroli conjugates once, for everyone, with no irregular verbs waiting afterwards. The grammar guides get to spend their time on the interesting parts instead.

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Present tense

paroli

to speak - Every verb, no exceptions

mi
parolas
vi
parolas
li / ŝi
parolas
ni
parolas
ili
parolas

The ending never changes for person. One form covers all of them, and there are no irregular verbs to learn afterwards.

Built for Esperanto, specifically

Not one course photocopied six times. Each language gets the tools its own difficulties actually call for.

Esperanto by the numbers

Counted from the course, not rounded up for the brochure.

roots, taught in frequency order
1000

roots, taught in frequency order

official affixes, all taught
40

official affixes, all taught

accents on every audio clip
2

accents on every audio clip

strict-ceiling graded readers
10

strict-ceiling graded readers

Start Esperanto at word one.

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