Esperanto and Globasa Compared: La feino (Ekzercaro 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, and 23)

A young woman at a spring in a forest gives water to a poor old beggar.

Here’s the continuation of my comparison of Esperanto with Globasa using a translation of Esperanto’s Ekzercaro. This blog post is devoted entirely to La feino; the intervening sections will be translated in the next part in this series. Peari (La feino) 11 Unu vidvino havis du filinojn. La pli maljuna estis tiel simila al la … Read more

Esperanto and Globasa compared: Ekzercaro 5-10

La Fundamento de Esperanto de L. L. Zamenhof: Gramatiko, Ekzercaro, Universala Vortaro

The three-part Fundamento de Esperanto forms the basis of how people speak Esperanto. It begins with a 16-rule grammar, but the Ekzercaro is where most of the practical details of Esperanto are really hashed out. It’s thanks to the Ekzercaro that grammarians are able to derive most of the other rules of Esperanto grammar. As … Read more