Learn Esperanto
Learn Esperanto free: a 3,000-root course.
Every lesson, grammar guide, story and word page is free to read, no account needed. Esperanto is agglutinative, so 3,000 roots in frequency order plus the 40 official affixes hand 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.
New to Esperanto? Start here
The whole grammar fits on a postcard, so these few pages carry most of it. Read them in any order; the course teaches each one again when you reach it.
- The Esperanto alphabet28 letters, one sound each, and how to type the six with hats.
- How to learn EsperantoThe method that fits the language, with a week-by-week plan.
- The accusative -nThe one ending that frees the word order, and its four jobs.
- The correlatives tableAll 45 question and answer words on one grid.
- Affixes: the full listTen prefixes and thirty suffixes that turn one root into a family.
- NumbersCounting to a million with nine roots and no exceptions.
- The article laOne word for the, and when to leave it out.
- All the grammar guidesEvery Esperanto grammar article, beginner to advanced.
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.
31 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.
- words, taught in frequency order
- 3000
- official affixes, all taught
- 40
- accents on every audio clip
- 2
- strict-ceiling graded readers
- 31
words, 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.
Keep the Esperanto you learn
An account remembers every word you know, builds your daily review, and syncs progress across devices.
Chapters 1 and 2 free, forever. Plus: 7 days free, then $5 a month for all ten languages.
Start Esperanto at word one.
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