An Elementary Esperanto Primer

Год: 1993
Количество страниц: 60As the reader of this book has most likely already decided to take a course using it, it is not truly necessary here to extol its virtues or the virtues of taking this language over any other, but I shall for tradition's sake do so nonetheless. This textbook is one of approximately three or four easily available for English-speaking students of Esperanto, and it makes no pretense of being the best. In fact, I would recommend David Richardson's Esperanto: Learning and Using the International Language as being the best Esperanto textbook available for the English speaker. However, this textbook has at least one advantage over that one, and that is the fact that to all intents and purposes it is free. The next question is why one should take Esperanto and not some other language. My response to that would be that one should take Esperanto and some other language(s), but that is not feasible for everyone. The question thus remains|why Esperanto. To answer it, let us look for a moment at the history and character of the language.