E is for Esperanto

Want to learn a language, but also you straight up suck at languages? No problem! Want to couch surf with randos from around the globe? We've got you covered! Want to develop your linguistic learning capabilities and try out the newest hipster craze, all while promoting the ultimate goal of world peace? Sounds like you're the "perfekta kandidato" for the lingua franca of tomorrow (maybe): Esperanto!

 

Sources:

 

Articles:

https://zamenhof.info/en/biografio

 

Foreign Language Training (US Department of State website)

https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/

 

About Esperanto (Esperanto USA)

https://esperanto-usa.org/esperanto/en

 

The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto (commented by Don Harlow, 1995)

https://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/105/Esperanto16.pdf

 

Why A Universal Language Will Never Be A Thing (Jason Koebler, Vice, April 2016)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezpvx4/why-humans-dont-have-a-universal-language

 

Esperanto (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, August 2019)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Esperanto

 

Linguistic features of fragrances: The role of grammatical gender and gender associations (Laura J. Speed & Asifa Majid)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-019-01729-0

 

Gender Reform in Esperanto (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reform_in_Esperanto#Gender_in_Esperanto

 

Videos:

 

Learn Esperanto first: Tim Morley at TEDxGranta (TEDxTalks, Apr 2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gSAkUOElsg&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

 

The Transformative Vision of Esperanto | Esther Schor | TEDxRoma (TEDxTalks, July 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHQCk46IvI&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

 

Esperanto Explained (Human Interests, July 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJWVOkdWQAs&ab_channel=HumanInterests

 

Tim Morley - “Springboard to Languages” [EN] - PG 2017 (Polyglot Gathering, Dec 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It-2X-dfEv4&ab_channel=PolyglotGathering

 

The Ten Most Spoken Languages in the World (James Lane, Babbel Magazine, Sep 2019)

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/the-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world

 

Esperanto : A Language no one Owns | Giridhar Rao | TEDxMahindraÉcoleCentrale (TEDxTalks, Feb 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHV1dNDGG4&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

 

Audio:

 

L.L.Zamenhof and the Hope of Esperanto (Stuff You Missed in History Class, Mar 2021)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sDRB3y4yHLDwisUQC6vFC?si=iPa4BgypRvem0Qb1NwDzSg

 

Esperanto (Out of the Ordinary, Dec 2018)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pXJPQd5lHkBw2qHIr1eXx?si=inOXW_lFQAu6M5i7WOBwXQ

 

302. Why Learn Esperanto? (Freakonomics Radio, Sep 2017)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R5vQepOOuhbu1Bmp2EfVC?si=OnSBbNnPRHKhY7ca33KtTA