Esperanto · Chapter 31 · Lesson 14 · Grammar primer
Kien de cxi tie: life after 3,000 words
3,000 roots is roughly 8,400 lexical units and a fifth of PIV - functional fluency, not the whole language. Where to read, listen, write and gather next, and a genuine send-off.
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Three thousand roots, honestly measured
Three thousand roots is about 8,400 words once the affixes multiply them, and roughly a fifth of the big dictionary. That is not the whole language - but it is the frequent fifth, the part that unlocks the rest, and it is enough to read real books and hold real conversations. You are past the beginning. Now use it: read, listen, write, and find other people to speak with.
Vi ne plu estas komencanto.
A language stays alive by being used
The last lesson is the one no course can teach for you: keep going. Read Kabe and Auld, listen to the daily broadcasts, write letters, go to a congress, join the community online. Most people who start a language never reach the point where it becomes theirs. You have. Alivorte - in other words - the course is over, and the language is just beginning.
Alivorte: la kurso finigxas, la lingvo ekas.
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