
Esperanto Essentials: 3 Classic Books on the Universal Language
Classic Essays on Grammar, Linguistic Neutrality, and Global FellowshipDe Richard Bartholdt, A. Christen, Walter John Clark, William W. MannDuração14h 19m
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Esperanto Essentials gathers three classic interventions in the history, practice, and promise of Esperanto, the most influential of the planned international languages. Moving between lucid exposition, practical instruction, cultural advocacy, and reflection on linguistic reform, the volume situates Esperanto not merely as a grammar to be learned but as an experiment in transnational communication. Its varied texts illuminate the language's accessibility, its literary ambitions, and the ethical ideal of mutual understanding that animated its early reception. Particularly compelling are the works' complementary treatments of linguistic structure and Esperanto's wider social purpose. The contributors—Richard Bartholdt, A. Christen, Walter John Clark, and William W. Mann—belong to the broad early twentieth-century Anglo-American milieu of educators, translators, public intellectuals, and language reform advocates who helped introduce Esperanto to English-speaking readers. Their perspectives converge with internationalist currents that sought alternatives to linguistic hierarchy amid expanding global exchange. Together, these voices reveal how Esperanto advocacy joined practical pedagogy to aspirations for peace, cultural reciprocity, and a more democratic public sphere. This volume is recommended for students of language politics, translation, internationalism, and modern cultural history, as well as for prospective Esperanto learners. By bringing distinct explanatory and argumentative modes into one compact collection, it offers both an instructive introduction and a revealing record of a movement that imagined language as a bridge between peoples.
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GêneroOther, Literary Classics
Duração14 h 19 min
Narrado porOuça com mais de 1.000 vozes
FormatoeBook com áudio
Data de publicação4 de mar. de 2025
IdiomaInglês
Sumário
1International Language, Past, Present & Future
2PART I
3PART II
4PART III
5PART IV
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6APPENDIX A
7APPENDIX B
8APPENDIX C
9Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education
10Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation
11Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation
12PREFACE.
13THE ESPERANTO ALPHABET (WITH PHONETIC PRONUNCIATION).
14PRELIMINARY NOTES.
15VOCABULARIES.
1637. Adverbs, Conjunctions & Prepositions. (Adverboj, Konjunkcioj kaj Prepozicioj.)
17ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR.
18CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES AND SENTENCES.
19MONEY, WEIGHTS & MEASURES.
20Footnote