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

Prayers in Globasa from different religions

The Globasa flag with Sikh, Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Hindu, various (pentagram), Islamic, Catholic, and Chinese religious symbols.

I’ve been Jewish my whole life, but I was a spiritual seeker in my 20s and explored all sorts of different religions, whether to learn more about them or see if they offered something better. I came to learn there was no such thing as better when it came to religions: that they all offered … Read more

Globasa LGBTQ pride flags

A mashup of the LGBTQ pride and Globasa flags

It’s that time of year when all the Discord servers say “Happy Pride” and give a long spiel about it. The Globasa Discord server was no exception. Despite reading their pride speech, I was inspired to create some pride flags mashed up with that of Globasa. Globasa comes from the current generation of international auxiliary … Read more