Study Esperanto 10 minutes a day and become a World Citizen

Esperanto is a neutral, international language, created to be a bridge in between different cultures and peoples. Besides being politically and culturally neutral, it is the easiest language to learn on Earth. While english can be learned in 10 years, Esperanto can be learned in 4 MONTHS.

It is spoken by over 10 million people, in every corner of the globe. It has thousands of books written on it, hundreds of songs, newspapers, magazines and it is the quickest way to connect with the World.

Study Esperanto for 10 minutes a day.
In 4 MONTHS, you will be an expert, able to talk to anyone who speaks Esperanto around the world with perfection. In 4 MONTHS, you can become a citizen of the world.

Any questions regarding the language can be sent to me personaly or to the comments below. You can learn Esperanto on the internet. There is no need for a teacher.

I send a lesson to the pledge every Sunday! And, if you want, you can also visit http://en.lernu.net/

Experience dictates a warning: before you attack, google it. It´s better to make an informed attack. I will gladly answer it.

This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible.

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B B Sandy, UT @ 05:49PM PT Feb 02

I want to learn Esperanto. I have tried twice, but then I just stop. Nobody to practice with to keep up motivation. :O
saed abbasi @ 07:44PM PT Feb 01

dream globally but act locally!

songxu tut-globe sed agu sur-loke!
Phillippe de Angelus London, United Kingdom @ 09:18AM PT Jan 30
Pledge fulfilled Jan 22, 2009!

Hello, guys!

Vote here!

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/obama_introduce_esperanto_as_a_foreign_language_subject_in_schools
Jason Castle San Rafael, CA @ 02:29PM PT Jan 28

Hey, Thomas--

I would agree with you that it's unlikely that most people would become "expert" (whatever that means) after four months of study. Sometimes Esperantists do tend to exaggerate. (Keep in mind that many Esperantists already speak several languages, so perhaps many of them DO achieve that level in that timeframe.) Even though I first started studying Esperanto over 40 years ago (and became quite proficient in a very short time), I'm finding that I still need to do some serious study to get to the really fluent level that I hope to achieve. (So that I could translate complex literature from English, for example.) However, after having studied many other languages over the years, it is very clear to me that Esperanto is the only one that I am likely to master in this lifetime. I can carry on convesations in French and Spanish (as well as in my native English, of course), but I will never have the level of confidence and spontaneity that I am beginning to experience in Esperanto. The late Claude Piron, the interpreter and psychologist in the video above, has written extensively about this; and he says that he feels most free when speaking Esperanto. That's quite a statement, coming from a professional UN interpreter!
Jason Castle San Rafael, CA @ 02:06PM PT Jan 28

Koran dankon, Renata, pro ĉi tiu paĝo!

I first started studying Esperanto when I was 14, and I can honestly say that it helped me immensely in later studying Latin, French, Spanish, and German ... and it continues to help me with my native English! Thanks to Esperanto, I am continuing to learn more about other cultures than I would otherwise, including reading literature that I would not even have known existed otherwise. (The Polish novel, "The Pharaoh", for instance; the great medieval Islandic epic, "Edda".) I'm even reading English literature in Esperanto that I would not otherwise read; and Shakespeare is much easier to understand in Esperanto than in English! But, what is even more fun and gratifying, is being able to communicate everyday with people from all over the world, with whom I would not be able to even discuss the weather, if not for Esperanto (and in all fairness, also Twitter).

BTW, I like your warning that people should inform themselves before attacking Esperanto. One of the main criticisms I hear, is that Esperanto has no culture. Well, everyday I am pleasantly surprised by the wonderful culture we share. Ok, we don't have TV programs or many glossy magazines (yet), but we enjoy music in Esperanto (even music videos), books, Vikipedio, blogs, and a warm community that uses this expressive language in a way that is more liberating for most of us than our own native tongues.

Personally, I am not advocating that everybody in the world learn Esperanto. But, I am eager to share my enthusiasm for the language with anybody who might be interested. It is not for everybody, but many would not only enjoy Esperanto, but benefit from it as I (and many others) have.
Valdemagno Silva Torres @ 06:22AM PT Jan 26

Esperanto is a neutral language. The Only one non-natural language that survives to this creator, Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof (pronounced /ˈzɑːmɨnhɒf/ in English; born Eliezer Levi Samenhof, December 15, 1859 - April 14, 1917). There are 66.700.000 references in Google for Esperanto, the most of a planned language. There are no irregularities in this grammar, and the language is spoken in whole world, There, is at least, one inhabitant in each country in Whole Wolrd that speaks Esperanto. Esperanto is easy to learn autodidactly. There are two UNESCO resolutions supporting it, in this link we can see the The Montevideo Resolution, approved in the General Conference of UNESCO on december, 10 1954: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo_Resolution. There are some reasons that I defend Study Esperanto in all schools of USA.
Neil Blonstein NY, NY @ 04:04PM PT Jan 25

Esperanto has been the most useful language I have learned with the goal of making friends with people living in other countries. (I speak Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and more.) Most people can't learn that much and I still hope to travel to countries where those languages aren't always useful for meeting people. Esperantists have a long history of working for peace. Large nations continue to cause war. Esperanto is MY language with which I most identify.
ravid kaplan @ 06:31AM PT Jan 24

i feel it is important to make this pledge because i hope that it will promote esperanto. just like saving pennies, every person who learns esperanto, I believe, makes a diffrence
Vernon Wilks @ 10:34AM PT Jan 13

Thanks for posting this page. I started learning Esperanto a day ago, and it's really nice to know other people want to learn it as well.

Gxis.
Vernon Wilks @ 10:31AM PT Jan 13

I wish to be in touch with foreign people to learn about their cultures. But since I don't want to spend 5 years learning a foreign language, and they don't want to spend 10 learning English, I chose to start learning Esperanto.