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[LaPingvino]

[META] Virtual Esperanto classroom at lernu!

[HitsHerMark]

Yay!

[LaPingvino]

First lesson is finished. HitsHerMark was there. I will post here when a new lesson will come, other teachers may post here too.

To enter the lessons, you should make an account at lernu! and enter here: http://eo.lernu.net/klaschambro/

[kosmopol]

I'm also registered. But how does it works? Please explain

[HitsHerMark]

It was a chat room essentially, but it only took up half the screen. The "teacher" was able to bring up parts of the Lernu! site in the other half to demonstrate what they were talking about.

I would suggest that whoever from Lernu! that posts here about opening up a lesson should include a link directly to the "classroom".

[aliendial]

And post a time in advance. I'd love to try it!

[Elizabeth123]

There's been some talk in Ariadne's forum HERE, about using Esperanto to communicate to all the other forums, saying that one of the messages of the Codex is for people to think about organizing teams across language barriers. It may be that we're all meant to learn a communal language to communicate in.

From glancing through our Esperanto texts, it really does seem reasonably easy (although verb tenses may be hard), since the words have latinate roots. My English and rudimentary French and Spanish allow me to understand most of the words. The Chinese/Japanese speakers will have a harder time, I'm sure, but hopefully there are enough of them who speak a Latin-based language that could help the others.

I can't post in the forums for whatever reason, but could someone please post a message about the lesson in lernu.net? And ask for Spanish/French/Chinese, etc. speakers to post about it in the other forums? I bet there'll be people who'd like to join.

[LaPingvino]

The words are mostly latin-based, although not all.

The key to the ease of Esperanto is its structure: you can put words freely together. That's what I will teach mostly. As you can put words together easily, you don't need very many words, which makes it easier for Asian people, too.

And believe me: verbs are really very very easy.
Definitely this evening 9h-10h Dutch time (click the time to see it in your region) I'm yet there now at http://eo.lernu.net/klaschambro/ (you need to have an account and to be logged in at http://lernu.net).

See you there!

LaPingvino

[sapagoo]

[Elizabeth123]

I tried, but wasn't able to get in, even after registering. It kept popping me out to a German site.

[LaPingvino]

I'm finished with the second class now. Again a satisfied student and some more well-trained Esperanto were there. Next time will be tomorrow most probably at 20:30 Dutch time again on http://eo.lernu.net/klaschambro/

If things change, I'll edit this post.

If somebody wants to give a parallel class on a beginners/introductional grade, that would be great. It's hard to teach to beginners and progressed students at the same time. (You'll have to be a lingvohelpanto at lernu! to do this, get your B-exam and sign on to become one)

See you there!

LaPingvino

[limako]

I can help

[jasper]

I've been playing with some on-line lessons http://en.lernu.net/kursoj/puzlo/chefa.php

I'm slightly irritated to learn that my mom is mia patrino (my female dad?)

[LaPingvino]

For anyone interested, there will be a real life Esperanto-lesson in the Netherlands soon, 30th of April till 4th of May, more information to find at http://dakje.nl in Dutch and Esperanto.

If you're in the neighborhood, you're welcome to pass by .

And sorry there were no lessons the last days, maybe soon another one will come though. Seemingly the times I usually give lessons aren't really opportune for everyone, but for those who are able to pass by online at the given times before, please mention as I will get an idea of how many people will be able to visit my lesson.

Maybe limako can post a new time and date here for a USA-wide lesson?

[lhall]

I can't join in any of the classroom sessions, but I wanted to post just to say that the lessons on that site are really excellent. I started doing them a few weeks before I actually started playing the game, so now I'm finding FTLR a very good way to keep up the momentum!