Kilo Lingo

Esperanto · Chapter 9 · Lesson 20 · Vocabulary

Song: La Espero

Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

La Espero

The Hope

Lyrics

Strofo 1

,

;

oj

.

;

'

.

Strofo 2

l'

as ,

.

miljaroj

;

os baroj,

aj.

Strofo 3

,

,

.

kolegaro

os,

l'

' os.

New words in this song

Comprehension drill

4 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

Words by L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), published 1890; the standard melody by Félicien Menu de Ménil (1860-1930), published 1909 and canonical by the 1920s - it was on the first Esperanto gramophone record ever pressed (London, 1926). Both creators dead well over 70 years. Source text. Translation ours.

Open the full song page for the background to the song.

Lesson 20 of 23 in this chapter

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