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.
Browse Esperanto storiesGrammar 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.
Explore Esperanto grammarPresent 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
- official affixes, all taught
- 40
- accents on every audio clip
- 2
- strict-ceiling graded readers
- 10
roots, taught in frequency order
official affixes, all taught
accents on every audio clip
strict-ceiling graded readers
Or wander in sideways
The course is the spine, but every part of it stands on its own.
Start Esperanto at word one.
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