Esperanto Crash Course for English speakers
Channel: CodeWeaver
Date: 12/07/2021

July 9 through 11, 2021, I planned and delivered a one-session course in English for the language Esperanto. It was offered three different times to accomodate for different timezones / availability. This is the full, unedited recording of the July 11 session.

The class was billed for 2½ hours (here it was effectively 2hrs 40min); the remaining time is for questions & answers.

It was hosted at the r/Esperanto Discord server, of which I am an admin. I was joined by Marokujo, a fellow admin who stood in as teaching assistant. Even if you weren't at the class, you're welcome to join our community and explore Esperanto! https://discord.gg/esperanto

Esperanto FAQ: https://loganhall.net/eo/faq-en.html

Here are the resources that were shared at the end of class (most are now in the above FAQ):

Cheat Sheet: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225436984489803778/621532988307406858/arb7LIY.png

Multilingual Dictionary: https://lernu.net/en/vortaro
Grammar: https://lernu.net/en/gramatiko
Fundamento de Esperanto: https://www.akademio-de-esperanto.org/fundamento/index.html
Being Colloquial in Esperanto: https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/eo/colloq/colloq003-Contents.html

Web courses:
Lernu.net course (consider making a Lernu.net account first): https://lernu.net/en/kurso/nakamura
Duolingo course: https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto

YouTube courses:
(American Esperantist) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7dmEsGY9uErnH_h3SxsrZvIaA8LDZWTh
(Direct Method, by Evildea) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5buyXOt7rUYUcw7E-NFpiglAivc8ZRnM

Authoritative, Esperanto-only resources:
(Dictionary: PIV) https://vortaro.net/
(Dictionary: Reta-Vortaro) https://reta-vortaro.de/revo/dlg/index-1g.html
(Grammar: PMEG) https://bertilow.com/pmeg/index.html

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
6:30 Class in session
8:41 History of Esperanto
23:40 Orthography
46:15 Parts of speech, affixes, word derivation
1:08:25 Intermission
1:18:31 Example sentences
1:32:13 Active participles
1:39:24 The accusative
1:58:09 Predicatives (correction: not "predicates")
2:03:47 Transitivizing, intransitivizing, adding/removing objects
2:09:53 Correlatives
2:12:23 Question words, conjunctions, complex sentences
2:25:20 Searching for cognates
2:42:40 Q&A