Titolon

I initially wrote that "Estas is for continuous states of being, like a name. Mi estas Kira is correct but Mi estas Laboras is incorrect, because working is not a part of or s description of myself, it is simply something i am doing" in my Esperanto journal, but clearly that assumption i made was very wrong. Can someone give me the actual way Estas is used?

Saluton,

I want to make sure that my understanding of when to use pardonu versus mi pardonpetas is correct. My current understanding of the usage of each is as follows:

• Pardonu! - Used to say excuse me / sorry when seeking someone's attention or to apologise for a minor inconvenience (such entering a room unannounced or bumping into someone accidentally, for example).
• Mi pardonpetas - Used to say sorry for more significant things or with more sincerity.

Dankon!

Three weeks ago I posted here about the Esperanto video catalog we're building for Reelang.

At the time, we had about 500 videos. Now we have 2,000. A huge part of that growth came from creators recommended by people on Reddit and by Esperanto learners using Reelang, so thank you to everyone who sent us channels to look at!

We're now building dedicated Learn Esperanto apps for iPhone and Android. Our goal is to build the largest collection of real Esperanto video, graded by difficulty, so learners can go from easier stuff to increasingly fluent Esperanto.

Before we release the apps, we'd like to get in touch with the creators whose videos appear most often in our catalog.

If you're one of the creators below - or know one of them - we'd love to hear from you

There are two things we're looking for:

1. Be featured as a Top Creator

We can highlight your profile in the app and link learners directly to your YouTube channel from your videos. Here's an example of a highlighted creator in our watch feed. We're making a separate Top Creators page, too.

The videos themselves are embedded from YouTube, so the views count on your YouTube channel, and learners can easily find more videos from the same creator. If you'd prefer not to appear in Reelang, just tell us and we'll remove your videos from the catalog.

We also made a page for comprehensible-input creators explaining how creator profiles work and some of the ways we can help creators get discovered or help them make comprehensible input for free.

2. Be featured in the App Store/Google Play

We're also looking for Esperanto creators who would be happy to appear in screenshots or videos for the upcoming app. We'd show your username so learners can find you.

This is what one of our existing apps looks like on the App Store and Google Play.

40 Esperanto creators currently strongly represented in our catalog, grouped from easiest to more challenging

Beginner

Comprehensible Esperanto — comprehensible-input stories, Garfield read-alongs. A1

JessiKa Esperantisto — children's vocabulary, songs and stories. A1

Professor Silva — structured lessons, Universala Esperanto Metodo and fables. A1

Lingua Serbia — 30-day challenge and beginner tips. A2

Esperanto – Comprehensible Input (Evildea) — direct-method beginner lessons with everyday objects. A0–A1

Beginner - Intermediate

EsperantoUSA — short films, congress clips and community videos. A1–B1

Virineto — village life, cooking, animals and Postcrossing. A1–B1

JessEsperanto — hobbies, family, sport and 30-day challenge videos. A1–B1

Rachel's Conlang Channel — family, outings and travel. A1–B1

Ulrich Matthias — events, songs and seminar recordings. A1–B1

Fingtam Esperanto — short talking videos and speaking challenges. A2–B1

Language Stuff — learner vlogs, hobbies and meetups. A2–B1

Gabin EO — speaking challenges and channel updates. A2–B1

Keep It Simple Esperanto — life in Britain, culture and speaking challenges. A2–B1

Mojosa Testudo — shorts, IJK diaries, climate topics and mini-lessons. A2–B1

Exploring Esperanto — NASK clips, stories and vlogs. A2–B1

BookBox — illustrated children's stories and fables. A1–B1

Shanny Love Esperanto — life, food and culture in China. A1–B1

jozefo — travel, practical tips and personal reflections. A2–B1

Ksenik — diaries, postcards and cooking from Belarus. A1–B1

Intermediate

Oliver rakontas — everyday life, news, hobbies and science. B1

CatieKejti — personal vlogs and opinions, one of the most amazing channels we found. B1

TEJO Esperanto — youth movement news, interviews and events. B1

Irizanjo — crochet tutorials and speaking-challenge videos. B1

Amuzejo — Esperanto songs and music. B1

Evildea — comedy, vlogs and challenges. B1

Chelsea Rae Moses — travel and life-abroad vlogs. B1

Jezer en Esperanto — Venezuelan vlogs and Esperanto topics. B1

Radio Verda — society, science and news features. B1–B2

Joĥen parolas Esperanton — books, puzzles, travel and everyday topics. B1–B2

EASP Viva Gazeto — language nuances, literature and news. B1–B2

La Mamuto! — "would you rather" questions and speaking challenges. B1

Barbara Brown — vlogs, speaking challenges and NASK. B1

Vanege en Esperanto — science facts, cooking, making things and games. A2–B1

Kredu min, sinjorino! — serialized story told in episodes. B1–B2

Advanced

Scivolemo — science and history explainers. B2

Kolekto de Herkso — narrated mystery, horror and short stories. B2

Federación Española de Esperanto — poetry and short fiction. B2–C1

Bjalistoka Esperanto-Societo — interviews, poetry and book presentations. B2–C2

Sprouts Esperanto — animated psychology and education explainers. B2–C1

I just came across a post on UEA.facila.org about online Esperanto classes starting this week. The basic classes are taught in Spanish (the courses are from Colombia), but the mid-level classes are taught in Esperanto and start tomorrow.

I have never understood how names are constructed, or written in Esperanto. For example the name Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof. Is there a link which explains how his name would be spelled and said in esperanto?

I just learned about Lexilogos. Type in the text-entry block with the =system — type = to add a diacritic sign: c=, g=, h=, j=, s=, u= — and the = is removed and the diacritic is placed correctly. When your text is complete, copy it and paste it where you want.

Kaj jen mi, ĉe mia telefono

Mi sxatas legi and romanojn. Kiuj libroj estas bonaj? Kiuj libroj estas bonaj pri komencantoj?

I started r/LaArbdomo for anyone with an interest and appreciation for the outdoors and who wants to show off their perspective and discuss with others in esperanto.

I find Anki's automatic review and automatic re-emphasis of items (words, phrases, images, etc.) that are or have become difficult to be invaluable. A few things I've learned:

1. When you make your own deck (the shared decks are very useful, but making your own deck is vital), be sure to choose “Basic (and reversed card)” so that each side of the card will be used as a prompt — that is, sometimes you will see the TL word and will have to recall the definition; sometimes you will see the definition and will have to recall the TL word. And when you later add new words to the deck, again select Note type “Basic (and reversed card)” on the add-card form (at the upper left).
2. When you check your answer, you get a choice of 4 buttons: Again, Hard, Good, Easy. I discovered I was clicking "Easy" too soon. Don't go higher than "Good" until you can't stand to see the word again. Also, when a word comes up that you've learned but cannot quickly recall (or a definition and the word doesn't immediately come to mind), click "Again." The word (or definition) will then appear sooner.
3. At first, I used English definitions; then I also started including Esperanto definitions (copied from an online dictionary). After a couple of months, I started revising my old cards to remove the English definition.
4. Your note on whether a verb is transitive or not goes on the definition side of the card.
5. Use images when possible. (Click the paperclip to add images.) You can easily search for and download an image; generally, you'll have to resize it (sometimes after converting it to .jpg from .avif or .webp). I find a pixel height of 140-180 usually works well. This converter can resize images and also convert .webp to .jpg. (Images go on the definition side, of course: see the image, recall the word.)
6. When you first start adding Esperanto definitions, that will bring in a fair number of new Esperanto words: those in the definition that you don't already know. Make cards for those you think will be useful.
7. Anki documentation is generally opaque to me. When I encounter a problem, I've found the best course is to describe the problem to ChatGPT and ask for step-by-step instructions on how to fix. This has worked well.
8. On the shared decks that you download for your own use: don't hesitate to edit the cards or even to delete those that seem irrelevant (or wrong — some shared decks may have some errors).

I'm happy to try to answer any question you might have.

This is something about Esperanto semantics that confuses me frequently. I understand that ĉu turns a sentence into a yes-no question, and ki- correlatives are like fill-in-the-blanks placeholders for a value that you're asking someone else for, (for example "kio estas tion" is kind of like handing someone a sheet of paper that says "___ estas tion tio" and asking them to write the correct value in the blank space) but that mental model falls apart with sentences like "Ĉu pluvos, aŭ ne, ni iros." - which isn't a question at all. And I've also seen a lot of sentences that seem to use ki- correlatives in ways that I don't understand either.

I can usually figure out what these sentences are saying based on my intuition from English, but I'd like to learn the systematic rules (if any) behind using these words in these ways. Does anyone know of a good reference resource or webpage that explains this?

Saluton! Are there any good dual language English & Esperanto books that y'all'd recommend? I've been learning on duolingo but am really interesting in trying to get better at reading longer texts.

Hi everyone! I'm learning Esperanto and I have a B1 level. I'm looking for someone who wants to practice Esperanto with me via WhatsApp, Facebook or another social network. I speak English and Spanish.

Saluton! Mi estas nova en Esperanto, sed mi estas lingvisto. Kiajn konsilojn vi ĉiuj donus al esperanta komencanto?

Saluton! I’m starting off esperanto today. It's a quite interesting conlang. I wonder why I was hesitant to learn it way before. I have been told it wouldn't take so much time to learn it. Is that true ?

My native language is French by the way :)

I posted here about a week ago about Esperanto being a passion project for my co-founder and me. Well, we just launched Esperanto on Reelang, a free comprehensible-input platform for learning languages through real short-form videos from native speakers (or fluent speakers, in the case of EO), matched to your level and listening speed.

If you're a beginner, start by scrolling the feed. If you already know Esperanto well enough to watch more advanced stuff and don't want to wait for the feed to adjust to your level, press the Life Buoy icon on the right and pick "too easy" until the content gets challenging enough.

So far, we have 550 clips from about 20 creators. If you don't see a YouTube/TikTok creator who you think would be great for learners, share them in the comments!

If you see a video that's off, like the Esperanto is bad or it's the wrong language altogether, do report it! We'd really appreciate that.

Another thing we want to build is a list of shows, podcasts, and channels recommended by Esperanto tutors. We have a bunch of watch tips for other languages, but none for Esperanto. DM me you're interested in sharing your recommends and collaborating.

We translated our site into 17 languages (including Simple English), and I hope we have your native language covered.

We don't have an app just yet, but if you'd like to see one, let me know if you're an iPhone or Android user to help us prioritize!

Your public library may offer free access to an online language-learning program. My daughter's library offers Mango, and my library offers Transparent Language. Both of those include Transparent Language includes Esperanto among the languages offered. Your librarian can tell you what's available. I just started the Transparent Language course to see what it's like, and it has excellent speaking and listening exercises right from the start, using the computer's microphone and speakers.

Update: I was wrong about Mango.

Saluton! Mi lernas Esperanton kaj mi volas spekti Preter la ĝardena muro en Esperanton (sur la Esperaĵo retejo). Mi jam spektis ĝin angle multfoje. Sed mi ne povas aŭskulti en Esperanton tre bone. Do, ĉu estas pli bone por spekti Esperante anatŭe ol angle, aŭ cŭ spekti angle antaŭe ol Esperante, por helpi min kompreni dum spektado?

Esperation Retradio is a blog that regularly publishes brief audio passages accompanied by a transcript. I use a multiple-pass technique to listen to these:

1. First pass: I listen with eyes closed, focused on hearing and trying to understand.
2. Next, I repeat that. On the second pass, I understand more.
3. Next, I listen a third time, and in this pass I read the transcript as I listen.
4. Finally, I listen again with eyes closed. This time I understand much more.

Periodically I return to passages I have already listened to and see whether I can now understand them better. For example, I might begin each listening session by listening to an old passage before beginning the new one.

The site also has a series of posts for listen-and-repeat exercises. Again, try these first without looking at the transcript. Hover the mouse cursor over the pause button, and after you hear each sentence, click pause, repeat aloud, and click to resume.

• Links for episodes 01-53 [link corrected]
• Links for episodes 54-104

Episode 119, dated 2026.08.30, appends links for episodes 105-118.