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Introduction to Esperanto: 1

Saluton! Welcome to this free interactive Esperanto course. We’ll start from scratch and teach some Esperanto to you, and then we'll ask you to write certain things in Esperanto in the form below. You’ll need to type in the answers before moving on. Moreover, this course has audio, and you can hear the pronunciation of the Esperanto words and sentences whenever you click on the audio icon next to them, and also when you answer questions correctly.

Just before we start, I suggest you use my site CoolJugator for Esperanto verbs and example sentences.

The Esperanto word for it is ĝi.

This letter Ĝ is one of a few special letters in Esperanto. It represent the sound g in gist (or Jack).

When people write in Esperanto, they usually informally write Gx or gx (depending on whether it is uppercase or lowercase) instead of ĝ if they don’t have ĝ on their keyboard. This also applies to any other letter that has an accent (there are only six in Esperanto). Writing them through an x is called the x-sistemo. You will be asked to write things down in this lesson, and you will be able to write them by using either original Esperanto letters or the x-sistemo.

The English word is (for example, in the sentence she is smart) in Esperanto is estas.

How would you write:

  1. Write your answer in Esperanto in the field above. For example, for this question, try "Ĝi estas Esperanto."
  2. Use the new word "Kio" in the beginning.
  3. There is no indefinite article in Esperanto, so you will just skip the word "a".
  4. Use "Tio" for "That" and "kaj" for "and". And remember that there is no word for "a" in Esperanto so you just skip it.
  5. You will be using both "facila" and "lingvo" together in this sentence.
  6. Use "kaj" to connect "good" and "easy", and remember that there is no indefinite article.
  7. You are asked "It" rather than "That", thus you will be using "Ĝi". Remember that there is no space between "mal" and the word it attaches to.
  8. You are asked "That" and not "It", thus you will be using the word "Tio". Use "mal" to get the opposite of "bona".
  9. You are asked "It" rather than "That", thus you will be using "Ĝi". Remember that you use "ne" in front of the verb, so you will have "ne estas".
  10. Remember that "ne" comes as a separate word before "estas", that there are no articles in Esperanto (thus no "a"), and that the word for it is "ĝi".
  11. Remember that "am" is just the same word as "is" in Esperanto.
  12. Add "ist" right before "o" in the word "lingvo".
  13. It's the same word as in English, except you have no article, and also the noun ending "o" at the end.
  14. You simply remove the "int" from that word to get to "teeth". 
  15. Don't forget that you need the noun ending "o" after the "ist".
  16. Add the "ist" before the "o".
  17. Don't forget that the suffix "an" goes before the ending "o".
  18. Just put "de" (as a separate word) in front of the country name.
  19. Remember that "human" was "homo".
  20. Remember that "good" was "bona".
  21. Remember that the word for work was related to "labour".
  22. Use "Usono" as your country name.
  23. You can use whatever word order you like.
  24. You will be saying "from where you are?", and your word for "from" is "de".
  25. Remember that France was "Francujo".
  26. Take off the "o" and add an "i".
  27. Take off the "as" and add an "i".
  28. To get the word "to be", take "estas" (which means "is"), take off the present tense ending "as" and add an "i".
  29. Do a reverse thing: toke off the infinitive ending "i" and add a present tense ending "as".
  30. Remember there is no word for "do" in questions, so you will be asking "where you learn?"
  31. This is an adjective, not an adverb, so the ending of this one is "a".
  32. The verb endings on "lerni" and "labori" will be "as".
  33. Remember that "fartas" means "to be doing" already, thus you will not need the word for "to be" in that sentence.
  34. Do you still remember that "I" is "mi"? Also be careful not to miss the word "very".
  35. Apply the present tense "as" ending to the word "havi", and also mark objectivity on the word "ĝi" by adding an "n". 
  36. Remember to mark objectivity on the word "tio". Also use the appropriate present "as" and "i" endings.
  37. Did you remember to mark objectivity on the word "kio"?
  38. Yes, add an "n" to "Esperanto" to mark objectivity.
  39. Use the present tense "as" form of the word "lerni" ("to learn").
  40. Use the present tense "as" form of the word "studi" and also mark objectivity where appropriate.
  41. Do NOT mark objectivity on this one. See the next lesson for why.
  42. Use a form of the word "ĝi".
  43. Remember the word for "labour".
  44. Don't forget to mark objectivity on the word "saluto"!
  45. We are using it not as a greeting but just describing a day, thus do not mark objectivity on this on. Also, remember that "good" is "bona".
  46. Remember that the word for "to say" is "diri" and use it in the right form. Also don't forget to add the objectivity marker on BOTH the adjective and the noun.
  47. Now do mark objectivity on this one. Remember that you need to mark it on both words.
  48. No need for quotation marks or anything. Also remember to mark objectivity.
  49. This will be just one word, objectivity marked.
  50. Remember that it's similar to the word "salute".
  51. Literally "how you are-doing?"
  52. Use the word "kaj" for "and". Rememeber that "well" is an adverb and will therefore need the "e" ending.
  53. Remember that "badly" is the opposite of "well", so you will be needing to add "mal" somewhere.
  54. Mark objectivity on the word "kio".
  55. "History" is "historio". Mark objectivity on it too.
  56. Literally "where from you are?"
  57. "France" was "Francujo".
  58. Remember the "an" suffix for group members, and also mark objectivity in the second sentence.
  59. Use "kio" as your k-uestion word, and "via" as the word for "your".
  60. Use a form of "study", and also mark objectivity in the second sentence.
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