Having organized language study programs for over 40 years in Great Britain, Germany, Spain, and other renowned destinations, LEC wanted to dedicate today’s article not to the language of Shakespeare, nor to that of Goethe, nor even to that of Cervantes, but to a rather unique language known as an “auxiliary language”:Esperanto.
Esperanto is a language that first emerged in 1887, the year the textbook *International Language* was published, written by a Polish ophthalmologist, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof. Through his invention, he hoped to facilitate communication between people who spoke different languages—from this hope arose the pseudonym under which he would sign his works, Esperanto, which translates to “He who hopes.”
A grammar book with no exceptions: every student’s dream on a language study trip?
In support of his idea for a second book in 1905, titled *Fundamento de Esperanto*, Zamenhof developed a regular grammar—that is, one without any exceptions—the dream of all our young foreign friends on language study trips in France!—and words formed from a limited number of lexical roots.
Some examples of Esperanto
Among the 16 fundamental rules and 917 roots described in the works mentioned here, we find, for example:
- A one-of-a-kind item
- Nouns ending in "o"
- Adjectives ending in "a"
- Verbs that do not change in person or number
Mostly borrowed from Romance languages, the words found in Esperanto include:
- man: viro
- Mom: Panjo
- earth: tero
- drink: trinkih
- big : bigger
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