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THE ESPERANTO PORTAL
La Portalo pri Esperanto

The Esperanto flag.

Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887. The word esperanto means 'one who hopes' in the language itself. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.

Esperanto has had continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers for over a century, and approximately one thousand native speakers. However, no country has adopted the language officially. Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television, and radio broadcasting. Also, there is an Esperanto Wikipedia with more than 159,000 articles (as of Jan. 25, 2012).

There is evidence that learning Esperanto may provide a good foundation for learning languages in general. Some state education systems offer basic instruction and elective courses in Esperanto. Esperanto is also the language of instruction in one university, the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj in San Marino.

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Picture of the month - February Monata bildo - februaro

The very first printing of the Unua Libro, the first Esperanto textbook, for Russian speakers in 1887.

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Article of the month - February
Monata artikolo - februaro

TEJO is the Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo, or World Esperanto Youth Organization. TEJO was founded in 1938 under the name Tutmonda Junular-Organizo (World Youth Organization). The current name was taken in 1952. In 1956, TEJO became the youth section of the World Esperanto Association (Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA). In 1971, the finances and administration of TEJO were fully integrated into the UEA. Find out more...

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Vocabulary of the month - February
Monata vortlisto - februaro

Ludoj — Games

ŝako	chess
damludo	checkers, draughts
triktrako	backgammon
domeno	dominoes
skrablo	scrabble
paĉisio	parcheesi, pachisi
monopolo	monopoly
bagatelo	trivial pursuit
ĉina damludo	Chinese checkers
miksaĵo	jumble
tabulludo	board game
kartludo	card game
vetludo	gambling
videoludo	video game

serpentoj kaj eskaloj	snakes and ladders
pendumisto	hangman
ŝtono, papero, tondilo	rock, paper, scissors
liga punktoj	connect the dots
dudek demandoj	twenty questions
ŝarado	charades
levaj nadloj	pick-up sticks
batalŝipoj	battleships
saltodiskoj	tiddlywinks
ludkartoj	playing cards
jetkuboj	dice
ludpeco	tile, game piece

kribaĝo	cribbage
rumio	rummy
briĝo	contract bridge
pokero	poker
maĝango	mahjong
jacio	yahtzee
paciencludo	solitaire
pekseso	concentration
pikedo	piquet
krucvorto	crossword
anagramo	anagram
kriptaĵo	cryptogram
logikenigmo	logic puzzle
kunmetenigmo	jigsaw puzzle

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Grammar of the month - February
Monata gramatiko - februaro

In Esperanto, the word for "leader" or "boss" is estro. Besides being a stand-alone word, estro can also be used as a suffix. Used as lernejestro (lernejo = "school") it means "principal," and as urbestro (urbo = "city") it means "mayor."

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Categories
Kategorioj

Culture  · Dictionaries
Education  · Esperantido
Esperantists  · History
Language  · Literature
Media  · Native speakers
Organizations

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Esperanto resources
Rimedoj pri Esperanto

Here are some online resources:

• Esperanto-USA
• Basic Esperanto-English translator
• Lernu! (online Esperanto learning resource)
• Free e-mail/online Esperanto course

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Did you know...
Ĉu vi scias...

• ...that Neutral Moresnet, a European territory located between Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands from 1816 to 1919, had proposed the use of Esperanto as its official language?
• ...that Hungarians may elect among several languages when taking their university entrance exams and that Esperanto is the fourth language on the list?
• ...that Wikipedia in Esperanto (Vikipedio) is one of the few Wikipedias with over 150,000 articles?
• ...that the article "Esperanto" has been chosen as a Featured article in nine languages: Esperanto, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Swedish?

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Articles
Artikoloj

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Things you can do
Kiel vi povas helpi

Here are some Esperanto tasks: Requests: Translate to Esperanto the articles Number theory and Numerical analysis (eo:nombroteorio and eo:Nombra analitiko) Translate to Esperanto the articles Nucleonics and Molecular physics (eo:Atomkerneco and eo:Molekula fiziko) Translate to Esperanto the articles Epidemiology, Public health and Forensic medicine (eo:Epidemiologio, eo:Publika saneco and eo:Jura medicino) To Expand: Akademio de Esperanto Find Images: Translate: See also: The Esperanto Task Force

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Other Wikimedia
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	(en) Wikipedia (eo) Vikipedio, Wikipedia in Esperanto		(en) Wikiquote (en) Quotes about Esperanto (en) (eo) Quotes by L. L. Zamenhof (eo) Vikicitaro, Wikiquote in Esperanto
	(en) Wikisource (eo) Vikifonto, Wikisource in Esperanto		(en) Wikimedia commons (eo) (fr) Audio version of Zamenhof's discourse (en) (eo) Illustrations for the articles about Esperanto