Esperanto - Easy International Language - Simple Words To Start A Conversation

Problem
I stopped learning Esperanto, and writing to people on the Facebook Esperanto page, to write a speech, than decided to write a speech about learning Esperanto.

To get my thoughts in order, and have something for people to look at, I started a keynote presentation to go with a speech. (Keynote is the Apple version of Powerpoint.)

Then I went back and started reading aloud, "Hello, everybody. Esperanto is easy." Why not translate that!

What's hello? Saluton!

I had a great idea, to translate the whole thing into Esperanto to demonstrate how easy it was. I translated each word using Google translate. Slow going. I quickly decided to reduce the text on each of my 10 slides to three sentences.

Answer
I was searching for some more information on Esperanto in Wikipedia . Then I found a handy chart.

English	Esperanto	IPA
Hello	Saluton	[sa.ˈlu.ton]
Yes	Jes	[ˈjes]
No	Ne	[ˈne]
Good morning	Bonan matenon	[ˈbo.nan ma.ˈte.non]
Good evening	Bonan vesperon	[ˈbo.nan ves.ˈpe.ron]
Good night	Bonan nokton	[ˈbo.nan ˈnok.ton]
Goodbye	Ĝis (la) revido	[ˈdʒis (la) re.ˈvi.do]
What is your name?	Kio estas via nomo?	[ˈki.o ˌes.tas ˌvi.a ˈno.mo]
My name is Marco.	Mia nomo estas Marko	[ˌmi.a ˈno.mo ˌes.tas ˈmar.ko]
How are you?	Kiel vi fartas?	[ˈki.el vi ˈfar.tas]
I am well.	Mi fartas bone	[mi ˈfar.tas ˈbo.ne]
Do you speak Esperanto?	Ĉu vi parolas Esperante?	[ˈtʃu vi pa.ˈro.las ˌes.pe.ˈran.te]
I don't understand you	Mi ne komprenas vin	[mi ˌne kom.ˈpre.nas ˌvin]
All right	Bone	[ˈbo.ne]
Okay	Bone	[ˈbo.ne]
Thank you	Dankon	[ˈdan.kon]
You're welcome	Ne dankinde	[ˌne.dan.ˈkin.de]
Please	Bonvolu	[bon.ˈvo.lu]
Forgive me/Excuse me	Pardonu min	[par.ˈdo.nu ˈmin]
Bless you!	Sanon!	[ˈsa.non]
Congratulations	Gratulon	[ɡra.ˈtu.lon]
I love you	Mi amas vin	[mi ˈa.mas ˌvin]
One beer, please	Unu bieron, mi petas	[ˈu.nu bi.ˈe.ron, mi ˈpe.tas]
Where is the toilet?	Kie estas la necesejo?	[ˈki.e ˈes.tas ˈla ˌne.tse.ˈse.jo]
What is that?	Kio estas tio?	[ˈki.o ˌes.tas ˈti.o]
That is a dog	Tio estas hundo	[ˈti.o ˌes.tas ˈhun.do]
We will love!	Ni amos!	[ni ˈa.mos]
Peace!	Pacon!	[ˈpa.tson]
I am a beginner in Esperanto.	Mi estas komencanto de Esperanto	[mi ˈes.tas ˌko.men.ˈtsan.to de ˌes.pe.ˈran.to]

Vocabulary[edit]

Main article: Esperanto vocabulary

The core vocabulary of Esperanto was defined by Lingvo internacia, published by Zamenhof in 1887. This book listed 900 roots; these could be expanded into tens of thousands of words using prefixes, suffixes, and compounding. In 1894, Zamenhof published the first Esperanto dictionary, Universala Vortaro, which had a larger set of roots. The rules of the language allowed speakers to borrow new roots as needed; it was recommended, however, that speakers use most international forms and then derive related meanings from these.

Since then, many words have been borrowed, primarily (but not solely) from the European languages. Not all proposed borrowings become widespread, but many do, especially technical and scientific terms. Terms for everyday use, on the other hand, are more likely to be derived from existing roots; komputilo"computer", for instance, is formed from the verb komputi "compute" and the suffix -ilo "tool". Words are also calqued; that is, words acquire new meanings based on usage in other languages.

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I thought I would print out ten copies of the chart and go around the room asking everybody to say one sentence.

That makes a great speech, or party game. I'm going to try this out in the west and east; in London, England, and in Singapore.

Travel Information
If you want to visit sites connected with Esperanto's creator, Zamenhof, you can viit Poland or England. Statues of Zamenhof are around the world. See my previous post.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/poland
https://www.poland.travel/en-gb
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/is-it-worthwhile-learning-esperanto-how.html

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I have several most posts on Esperanto and learning other languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.

If you love music, travel on - songs associated with cities; UK, Europe, USA

Cities are associated with songs. When we used to show slide shows on returning from overseas, we would pick a song to set the atmosphere as we started and ended. Now you can do the same with a slideshow on Powerpoint or the Apple version, Keynote.

England
Why do I think songs are associated with cities? Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, the popular song says. As I leave for Europe on the ferry I hope 'there'll be blue skies over the white cliffs of Dover', as Vera Lynn sang to raise morale in World War II.
A few more:
The Eton boating song.

Here's a list I'm compiling:

UK
Ireland
When Irish eyes are smiling. (Great song to accompany a picture of family, friend, or character met on your travels. Or a picture of your favourite singer or group.)
If you're Irish come into the parlour!
Molly Malone.

Scotland
You take the high road ... great song to accompany a picture, a vista, of a road through the Scottish hillsides and valleys.

Europe
Many more songs are associated with France, Italy, Spain.
France - The Marseillaise; Sur le pont (D'avignon - music to accompany any bridge - you say, 'Well of course this isn't Avignon, this is such and such a bridge,' or, "This is the bridge at Avignon, so many miles north of where we travelled to  .... where we saw this bridge across the river ... )
Italy - All over Italy ...
Spain - Que Viva Espagna!

USA
Bridge over troubled water - 'this is the Golden Gate Bridge ... and the prison of Alcatraz is  open to visitors ... from here you can look down on ..."
I left my heart in San Francisco
Galveston, oh Galveston ...
... that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

Many states and cities have songs or musicals associated with their names: Chicago; Oklahoma; Miss Saigon.

You could also research through history, finding the top ten records of the year to match your photos, either of the year of your birth, your trip, or of buildings which you have photographed, or a historic photo from Wikipedia of the same main street years ago, such as a Wild West town.

Angela Lansbury, author, travel writer, speaker.

PS If you are making a public presentation you will have to find works which are old enough to be out of copyright, unless you invest in paying for a performing right license. (Some venues will already have this.)

Saving travel photos and memories

You can save souvenirs of your travel trips in many ways.

PHOTO SLIDESHOW

Make your photos into a slide show using Powerpoint or Keynote (on Apple Mac laptops or iPads) or Mosaic. Starting with a title page and map, ending with a photo of yourself at home or unpacking souvenirs. Add music. Or recipes. Or a page of websites and addresses at the end. Or list your future or all previous trips.

WATERCOLOURS, SKETCHES & CARICATURES
I draw pictures of people I meet. I carry watercolour pencils. (Less messy and less time consuming than watercolour paints or oil paints. You can also take photos and draw pictures in the evening or after you get home.

PRINTS & TEE-SHIRTS
A print of your family with the car is useful if you often lose each other. You can point to your tee-shirt and ask, have you seen my husband, children, car?

EMBROIDERY
A lady in Singapore makes embroidery pictures of the places she visits. How could you do this? Print photos onto a tee shirt.

PHOTOS of HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, TOUR GUIDES, GROUPS

Wine label, Workplace and Language Flashcards - Read or Make Your Own

I am studying for level one of the WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) exam and I've been creating a set of slides in Keynote (apple equivalent of Powerpoint or Mosaic) about wine and wine label/menu languages in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. I find learning from pages of vocabulary is tedious, whilst reading a wine bottle or chocolate label or clothes label is more interesting because you have a purpose and the word has an importance, telling you about quality, or safety.

The terms on wine labels make it easy to remember, but they are not quite same as the word in everyday language. It's easy to remember that vinho verde means literally green wine, but in context of wine this could mean white wine or young wine. Casa means house, but in the context of wine it could mean wine from a single vineyard, not blended wine.

I'd filled in a few Portuguese terms but needed more so I googled Portuguese wine terms. Up pops a site which has flashcards of Portuguese wine terms. The same page has links to other languages, (everything except French), Spanish, and Italian.

http://www.cram.com/flashcards/wine-portugal-glossary-of-label-terms-1889822

I then went back to the home page looking for French and German, the home page labelled Flashcards. Up pop pages of languages, everything you could think of, right the way from Afrikaans and Arabic down to Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish and Yoruba.

If you don't see what you want, you can create your own in any language, from a book, the internet, from signs you pass when travelling, or for example sitting on a bus or plane, talking to somebody from a foreign country or reading a menu in a restaurant.
cram.com is create and share online flashcards
http://www.cram.com/language

You can make flashcards for your phone to revise on the bus, and make flashcards for any subject, not just languages, but any subject you are studying, for exams, for holidays and travel, or a glossary of terms used at work, for example, computers, law enforcement, medicine, the military.

You could also print them off and use them for a Xmas quiz on Xmas and New Year greetings in foreign languages for a Xmas dinner or Xmas party.

http://www.cram.com/flashcards/create