Links

Some practical links¹ which those interested in Esperanto might want to use².

Events

• Eventa Servo – Worldwide Esperanto event calendar

Media

• Esperanto TV – Streaming TV with several channels, also including a radio channel

• UEAviva – The International Esperanto association’s YouTube channel

• TEJO Esperanto – TV channel on Youtube by the youth Esperanto organization TEJO

• Tubaro – Index of Esperanto videos on YouTube

• Radio Verda – Internet radio on YouTube

• Esperanto Retradio – Articles for reading and listening

• Le Monde diplomatique en Esperanto – Esperanto edition of the French Le Monde newspaper’s section Diplomatique

• Liberia Folio – International newspaper

• Monato – News magazine

• Vikipedio – Wikipedia in Esperanto

  • Esperanto-asocio – Esperanto organizations

• Wikipedia: Esperanto – In English, about Esperanto

  • List of Esperanto organizations – Esperanto organizations

Courses and study books

• Lernu.net – Complete beginner’s course online, covering A1-B1

• Saluton! – Simple course in the browser with audio and illustrations

• Universala Esperanto Metodo – Youtube videos with pictures, words and pronunciation, or read them on webpages – easy way of learning

• Esperanto in 12 Lessons – Mini-course to get you to an A1 level (teaching you the 500 most common words)

• Teach Yourself Complete Esperanto – Beginner to intermediate study book with online audio (A1–B2). The Esperanto Association of Britain is selling this book at half price

• Teach Yourself Enjoy Esperanto – Intermediate to advanced study book with online Audio (B1–C1)

• Pasporto al la toto mondo – Video-based language course, as an entertaining TV-series on YouTube

• BEK-Kurso – Course system, mainly for classroom use, in several levels

• Edukado.net – Virtual community for teachers, course directors, and independent learners. In Esperanto, apart from an info page in multiple languages

  • Ekzamenoj – Information on how you can get an official examination of your skills, currently offered at B1, B2, C1, and C2 levels as online exams, plus some more options

• Duolingo – Beginner to intermediate gamified course app

• Kursaro.net – Weekly online live classes

General books

• Dr. Esperanto’s International Language, Introduction & Complete Grammar – The book by Ludovic L. Zamenhof that introduced the language to the world

• Project Gutenberg: Esperanto – Public domain books

• La katalogo de UEA – Universala Esperanto-Asocio is also a book publisher and reseller. This page/webshop is in Esperanto

• Vikilibroj – Wikibooks in Esperanto language

• Svedaj libro- kaj gazetkolektoj en Esperanto – Newspapers, books, and articles from the library of the Swedish Esperanto Association

• uea.facila – Articles in easy Esperanto, with audio

Social media and communication

• Amikumu – App to connect and meet with other students

• Lernu.net – Forum

• Mia Vivo – Social media for Esperantists (description in various languages)

• Reddit

  • r/learnesperanto

  • r/Esperanto

Dictionaries and look-up info

• Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto – Esperanto to Esperanto dictionary

• Reta Vortaro – Esperanto to Esperanto dictionary with short translation to your chosen languages, and with word groups and categories

• Lernu.net – Dictionary, grammar, media library

• Komputeko – Technical dictionary, Esperanto <> English

• Lingvohelpilo – Automatic grammatical analysis

• Bertilo – Full grammar of Esperanto

• Traduko – Online Esperanto Translator (Esperanto <> English)

• Omniglot – Online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages

• Nätordböcker Svenska < > Esperanto / Retaj vortaroj Sveda < > Esperanto – Dictionary Swedish <> Esperanto

• Dansk <> Esperanto ordbog – Danish <> Esperanto Dictionary

• Tekstaro de Esperanto – Corpus for Esperanto (for text research)

• VISL Corpuseye – Corpus for Esperanto

• Grammar – A compact overview in HTML and PDF formats, by Bernd Wechner

Organizations

• Universala Esperanto-Asocio (UEA) – Partly in English (but the site is otherwise in Esperanto)

  • Useful Esperanto-links

  • Esperanto.net – Introduction website in many languages

  • Friends of Esperanto/Amikoj de Esperanto – Free introduktion membership/mailing list in your language with news about Esperanto, for non-speakers

• Sweden

  • Svenska Esperantoförbundet, SEF – Main website

    • Esperanto.se – Information site about the language

    • Intere.se – Collaboration site for active members

    • Göteborgs Esperantoförening / Esperanto-Societo de Gotenburgo – The Esperanto organization of Gotenburg

• Denmark

  • Esperantoforeningen for Danmark / Dana Esperanto-Asocio (DEA) – Main organization and main website

    • DEJO (Dana Esperantista Junulara Organizo) – Danish youth Esperanto organization

    • Aarhus Esperanto-Forening – Affiliate in the city of Aarhus

• Britain

  • Esperanto-Asocio de Britio – The Esperanto Association of Britain

    • Londona Esperanto-Klubo – London Esperanto Club

• Germany

  • Esperanto in Deutschland – German Esperanto association

• USA

  • Esperanto-USA – The Esperanto League of North America (ELNA)

• TEJO – International youth Esperanto organization

• Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) – Supports excellence in scholarship, education, and interlingual communication, through engagement with the worldwide community of Esperanto speakers, as well as with researchers, educators and activists in many language-related fields

• Esperanto Por UN – Organization to promote multilingualism in the UN and the use of Esperanto

• Union of International Organizations (UIA), Organizations related to Esperanto – This list contains only the names of organizations, but these can be helpful as starting points for further searches on the Internet

1. When looking for websites and other ressources about Esperanto, there will be many that are no longer functioning. It is natural, as there has been waves of increased interest for the language, enthusiasts who did a lot for a period, and then each wave faded and the enthusiasm with it, so that pages were updated less frequent, and in the end possibly abandoned.

Often, there are links elsewhere to these pages, and the links then stop working, and if “elsewhere” isn’t updated either, you will then run into those dead links.

Don’t worry too much about that, though – just make it a habit to save the links that work and that you want to use or share, and everything will be fine :)

This phenomenon exists for many topics, not just Esperanto, and the Internet doesn’t have any automatic clean-up mechanisms, so we will probably see more and more of it the older the Internet becomes.

But it is, admitted, a bit sad to see that something you were excited to discover isn’t there anymore. Luckily, there is something else instead – you just have to find it. And when you do, please share it, so that others can enjoy it too.

2. Some websites may require a login, and some even a payment. Most, however, were at the time of being added to the list, available for everybody with no restrictions.