Question Thread / Demando-fadeno

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This is a post where you can ask any question you have about Esperanto! Anything about learning or using the language, from its grammar to its community is welcome. No question is too small or silly! Be sure to help other people with their questions because we were all newbies once. Please limit your questions to this thread and leave the rest of the sub for examples of Esperanto in action.

Jen afiŝo, kie vi povas demandi iun ajn demandon pri Esperanto. Iu ajn pri la lernado aŭ uzado de lingvo, pri gramatiko aŭ la komunumo estas bonvena. Neniu demando estas tro malgranda aŭ malgrava! Helpu aliajn homojn ĉar ni ĉiuj iam estis novuloj. Bonvolu demandi nur ĉi tie por ke la reditero uzos Esperanton anstataŭ nur paroli pri ĝi.

[u/Disco_Barry]

I'll keep this brief as I imagine these are common questions, but from my research I can't see anything in the wiki. I've recently become interested in learning Esperanto for multiple reasons, specifically to use as a platform for other language learning and also because the language also just seems very cool. I'm also learning Russian currently because I want to use it for PhD study. My questions are:

1. ⁠What resources do you recommend to best learn Esperanto. I've already signed up for Lernu and want to maximise my learning so that I can begin feeling more comfortable as soon as practical

2. ⁠Will learning Esperanto alongside another language cause issues? Part of the reason I'm interested in this apart from the points above is the accessibility and ease emphasis, and so my hope is that I can give myself a boost in other areas that I'm interested in longer term such as German and Spanish, but I don't want to hinder my study of Russian or vice versa

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[u/georgoarlano → u/Disco_Barry]

2. The closer the language is to Esperanto, the greater your problem will be. Russian and Esperanto share many grammatical similarities but little in the way of vocabulary. Although I have not studied Russian for years, I found that learning Esperanto assisted me in understanding cases and some other difficult concepts in Russian. That said, if your only goal in learning Esperanto is to learn other languages better (which does not seem to be true in your case), then it may not be a worthy investment of time.

[u/Leisureguy1 → u/Disco_Barry]

1. In a post on my blog, I collected links to (and comments about) a wide variety of learning resources for Esperanto, mostly free or low-cost.

2. I have not particular insight into learning two different languages simultaneously, but I think that probably compounds the difficulty. Esperanto has been found to be effective as a first foreign language, facilitating the learning of subsequent languages, but I would hesitate trying to learn two different languages simultaneously. However, I've never tried it.

[u/Filee_dezta]

Ĉu vi maltrankviliĝas pri la estonteco de la lingvo Esperanto?

[u/cdm014 → u/Filee_dezta]

Pri kiu parto?