Esperanto Free

I've added a page consisting solely of free esperanto tutorials or courses. The other Learning Esperanto page will be only commercial products. Both (and any other Esperanto pages) will be linked to from the main Esperanto page.

Esperanto Revamping

As I noted earlier, I'm revamping the Esperanto pages. I've changed the main Esperanto page, and I've rearranged the whole section to work a little better. There are a few more additions coming in the next few days.

What's New page

What's New page is now up. If you have been following this blog for updates to the site, you can now RSS the site and this page will summarize all major changes to the site and appear as a regular in the RSS feed, along with other items and new pages.

RSS Feed

There is now an RSS feed from the site. Every page has an RSS link at the bottom of the navbar on the left, and also a link to add to your My Yahoo or MyMSN account. I'm going to add a What's New page for not only new pages or other features added to the site (some of which will have their own item in the RSS feed), but also to document the little modifications and additions which I am constantly doing but that don't merit their own entry in the feed.

Esperanto Resources

I've begun to split off the Esperanto page into several different pages. I'm adding an Esperanto Resources page (which I'll be adding to over the coming days) and I'll have others coming as well. I'm still working on the Incubus transcript. It'll probably have a few errors, but once it's done I'll put it up and with some input it'll be ok.

Icelandic

There is a site for Icelandic called www.Hafronska.org that I've added a link to on the Learn Icelandic page (eventually I'll have an Icelandic Resource page). This site is trying to promote coining new Icelandic words rather than borrowing foreign words for new terms or objects. I find this to be a problem in many languages. English has a unique flexibility which allows it to create new words easily. Most other languages don't have this ability and usually borrow the word from English or create a new one from the same source as English - usually Latin or Greek. For a language like Icelandic, this clearly dilutes the purity of the language. I'm not surprised that there is a backlash against this, and I am surprised there isn't a movement in many other languages like this one.

What is Esperanto

I've added a What is Esperanto page but it's not actually live yet. I have to make a change to it and then I'll link it in. I'll keep adding to these pages and tweaking them as I put them up. I'm still working on the Incubus transcription. It'll be a little while, but it's coming along. So much to do, so little time ...

Esperanto

I have several more Esperanto pages coming. I'm now beginning to go through the whole site and flesh out each of the individual language pages. I'll be adding pages on learning tips, vocabulary and cognates, adding resources etc. for all the languages. I'll also be adding free ebooks and audio files as I can. I'm starting this whole process with Esperanto, and then I'll be working on Spanish and French. Hopefully I'll be able to add in reviews and other pages throughout the site as I can.

Second Esperanto ebook

Uploaded the second Esperanto ebook to the Esperanto page. This one is called - A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman. Like the other one, it is almost a hundred years old. They both use the 'x convention' for writing the unique Esperanto letters - jx, gx, etc. It's annoying but not too difficult to use. I'll have to add a note on this on the page.

Esperanto ebook

Another one of those free ebooks is uploaded. The Esperanto Teacher by Helen Fry is up on the Learning Esperanto page. I have another one also that is a little more comprehensive. I don't think either one of these books is the best solution for a beginner to learn Esperanto, but for free it's worth it.