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Esperantic Quest

Esperantic Quest
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“Esperantic”! Such a tasty word. I wish we had something like “Englic” as the usual adjectival form of English. A missed opportunity.

Long ago, I blitzed through the first version of the Esperanto course on Duolingo, and actually found it very useful for cementing vocabulary in my head in a way that helped my understanding and generation of sentences, right from the basics.

It has come to my attention in recent days that the course seems to have undergone a large update, with plenty new and higher level material! So the time has come to undertake some more Duolingo learning, since my vocabulary sucks compared to my grammar understanding.

2024 edit:

Welp, I never made it to the end. Something about the structure made me feel like it wasn't letting me progress as fast as I wanted. I didn't quite have all the knowledge to test out of all the skills, but didn't have the patience to move as slow as it was making me move if I didn't...

I have had more success with reading magazines and books though 🤷

There's been some nice editions of translations of a few things come out recently too:

La aventuroj de Alico en Mirlando
Ni anoncas hodiaŭ la alvenon de la plej bela libro, kiun ni iam ajn eldonis: temas pri magistra nova versio de La aventuroj de Alico en Mirlando, ĉi-foje en belaj novaj vestaĵoj! La tekston prilaboris Edmund Grimley Evans, surbaze de pli frua versio tradukita de Donald Broadribb. La libron ornama…
La domo ĉe Pu-Angulo
La ĉefa eldonaĵo de EAB en 2021, traduko de la klasikaĵo The House at Pooh Corner, dua libro en la serio pri Urso Pu verkita de A.A. Milne. En tiu volumo troviĝas dek pliaj rakontoj pri Winnie-la-Pu kaj liaj amikoj de la Centakrea Arbaro: Kristoforo Robin, Porketo, kaj – unuafoje – Tiglo. Tiun ĉi…