Esperanto · For teachers
Every Esperanto printable, chapter by chapter
The whole Esperanto curriculum in one place, mapped to its 31 chapters and 879 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- How Esperanto worksIntroduction
Sixteen rules, no exceptions, and no irregular verbs. Read this first and the rest of the course is vocabulary.
The six hatted letters, how to type them when your keyboard cannot, and the stress rule that never has an exception. Ten minutes, and you can pronounce every word in the language.
ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ ŭ, and the x-system that works on any keyboard today: type cx, publish ĉ. Your own computer and phone come next.
Windows ships no Esperanto keyboard and US-International gets none of the six; PowerToys Quick Accent does. A Mac has ABC Extended, Linux the epo layout.
- Typing the hats on a phoneGrammar
Android is the easy one: add Esperanto to Gboard and long-press. iPhone is the bad one, fixed in two minutes with Text Replacement: cx becomes ĉ.
- Your first ten wordsVocabulary
10 words · The whole language in three lines first. A noun ends in -o, an adjective in -a, an infinitive in -i. A verb takes -as for now, -is for the past and -os for the future, the same for every person. And -n marks the object. So esti is to be and estas is am, is and are. The full tour is lesson 1, How Esperanto works.
A dozen fixed everyday phrases - hello, thank you, I am a beginner - so you can greet a real Esperantist before you have learned any grammar.
- The words inside the phrasesVocabulary
8 words · Saluton is saluto, a greeting, with the -n of an understood 'I give you'; dankon is danko, thanks, the same way. Bonvolu and pardonu are bonvoli and pardoni with -u, the ending for requests and commands, mi ne komprenas is kompreni with -as, kiel vi fartas asks how you fare, and a komencanto is someone who is beginning.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- The KiloKombat dojoLesson
Learn 10 new words faster than a rival. Spar the training partner to earn your grams, then challenge a real person - winner takes a tooth.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 11-20
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- The pronoun house: who does whatVocabulary
8 words · All eight subject pronouns in one place - mi to oni. One of the cleanest tables in the language: no gender traps, no formal/informal split, and every possessive is just the pronoun plus -a.
Every word tells you its own part of speech. Learn four letters and you can parse a sentence before you can translate it.
Bona homo, but ŝi parolas bone: -a describes a noun, -e describes everything else. And kaj, tre, nun and pro carry no ending at all.
Homo, homoj; bona homo, bonaj homoj. The adjective takes the -j too, and la stays la whatever follows it.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 21-30
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
11 words · ranks 31-40
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 41-50
- Verb tenses: -as, -is, -osGrammar
Present, past, future: one ending each, no irregular verbs, and the same form for every person. -u and -us come next.
Venu! is come!, ni iru is let us go, and after ke a new subject takes -u. -us is would, and it goes on both halves of an unreal if.
The eight pronouns you just met, at work: oni for people in general, and -n when the pronoun is the one seen or heard. Mia and sia come next.
- Mia and sia: whose is it?Grammar
Add -a for the owner: mia, lia, nia. It agrees with the thing owned, miaj libroj, and sia says his own where lia would mean someone else's.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 51-60
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- The number house: nul ĝis naŭVocabulary
10 words · The ten digits, nul to naŭ, in one sitting. Every other number in the language is built from these, so this is the only list you learn by heart. Watch naŭ: the ŭ makes it one syllable, like now.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
13 words · ranks 61-70
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- The object: what -n doesGrammar
Mi vidas la homon: the -n marks the thing the verb lands on, so the words can go in any order and still say who saw whom.
- Number house two: dek and the teensVocabulary
3 words · Dek is ten, and the teens are just dek plus a digit, written as two words: dek unu is eleven, dek naŭ nineteen. No thirteen-style words to learn. Kiom asks how many.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
12 words · ranks 71-80
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Saying no: neGrammar
One word, and it goes right in front of whatever you deny: mi ne diris tion, ne mi diris tion.
- Number house three: the tens and centVocabulary
3 words · Twenty is du times dek, written as one word: dudek, tridek, naŭdek. Add a digit with a space for dudek tri. Cent is a hundred (ducent, two hundred) and mil a thousand. Say cent as tsent.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Asking: ĉuGrammar
Put ĉu in front of any statement and it becomes a yes/no question. Nothing else moves.
- How Esperanto numbers workGrammar
Tens and hundreds join up (dudek), everything else stays apart (dek du, du mil): the whole number system in one spelling rule, plus the -a that turns any number into first, second, third.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 91-100
La when you both know which one; nothing at all for a. Sinjoro venis, then la sinjoro estas granda.
- Saluton! Your first conversationPhrase session
Six phrases that get you through the first minute with any Esperantist in the world.
- The sounds of the hatsPronunciation
One letter, one sound - and here is each hatted letter's sound, mouth diagram and all.
- Kion oni farasThemed review
The fifteen verbs of the first hundred words, in one place. Chapter 1 is almost entirely function words and verbs, so this is the session that shows you how much you can already say.
Amikumu was built by Esperantists to find speakers near you. Make a profile and send your first hello today.
- A book for beginnersConversation
Eight lines with Ludoviko, who would like to see you again.
- Your first story in EsperantoGraded-reader story
A real chat between a traveller and her Pasporta Servo host, built from the words you have just learned. The one new word is glossed at the top.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets122 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
