Esperanto · Chapter 11

La Movado

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Introduction
La Movado
The movement: what Esperanto is FOR. The congress, the proverbs, the places online where the language actually lives - and the vocabulary that carries all of it.
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The congress, and how you sign up
Kongresano, kongresejo, aliĝi: the congress vocabulary is word building you can watch, and al + -iĝ- + -i is how you join anything.
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Gastiganto, samideano and krokodili
Pasporta Servo's hosts, the word Esperantists call each other, and the verb for slipping into your own language: three community words, taken apart.
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The Proverbaro: kiu ... tiu and the -n
Kiu ne riskas, tiu ne gajnas; espero panon ne donas: Zamenhof's proverbs, each line carrying a correlative pair or the accusative.
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More proverbs: pli ... ol, participles and sia
Pli bona pano sen butero, ol dolĉa kuko sen libero: comparison, a participle, mal- and sia, each carried by a proverb you will remember.
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Esperanto hodiaŭ: online
Retejo, elŝuti, alŝuti, babili: where the speakers are online, and the internet words built from pieces you already know.
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Esperanto hodiaŭ: in person
How many speakers there are (nobody knows), the UEA and TEJO, and the congresses and weekend renkontiĝoj where the language is spoken out loud.
Themed review
La movado
Esperantisto, samideano, kongreso: the words the movement calls itself, built from suffixes you already hold, and the three dates behind them - 1887, 1905 and 1908.

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