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In high school I was the founder of our (small) Esperanto Club. I gave Esperanto lessons each week at our club meeting designed as a one year course, usually by

In high school I was the founder of our (small) Esperanto Club. I gave Esperanto lessons each week at our club meeting designed as a one year course, usually by the end of the year if someone attended each week and did moderate self study outside of class they could communicate in Esperanto really well. We even had one international student who really struggled with english that after a few months of attending our club could communicate with us in Esperanto more fluently than English! We had one a freshman join during my senior year who was a huge advocate of Toki Pona as a conlang. We decided to devote a month of the club to Toki Pona instead of Esperanto and it was mind boggling how quickly everyone was able to get a grasp of it. Granted Toki Pona is much more "wordy" than Esperanto, you often have to use many words to convey an idea that you could express quickly in a language with a larger vocabulary. Regardless it was an absolute blast to learn and I'm surprised by how much I remember. Once I got to college there seemed to be a severe lack of interest in Esperanto, or any conlang for that matter, amongst the student body. I could never really keep enough people interested the same way I could in high school so I gave up after my sophomore year. I really miss teaching people Esperanto. I believe the club at my high school still runs to this day, I'd love to be able to go back and visit one day.

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qwerty456127 7y ago
I bloody wish there were good modern Esperanto courses. I've found a Michel Thomas method Esperanto course once but it was incomplete. I would really love to buy a complete one (even for a price higher than what other languages cost). Intuition suggests I'm not the only one interested although there probably are not too many. This means the demand, albeit humble, certainly is higher than the offer. You might consider running a croudsourcing campaign and making some good modern Esperanto resources if you really feel interested in teaching people Esperanto.
- D-Coder 7y ago
  Have you tried Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto)? If so, what did you think of it? It's free, with a subscription option for more features.
  - qwerty456127 7y ago
    It's nice but fairly boring (e.g. too much repetitions of the same stupid questions) and not even nearly as good as Michel Thomas or Pimsleur. I wish somebody would just take something like one of those courses for e.g. Spanish and replace Spanish words with Esperanto. Obviously that would mean pirating the actual method but it would be blatantly hypocritical of me to pretend I care. With a croudsourcing campaign, however, there are chances to do that (or something even more interesting) officially, pay the royalties etc and I would gladly contribute a reasonable amount of money.
- elldoubleyew 7y ago
  I personally used Edukado[1] for teaching resources for my course. They have a ton of lesson plans from beginner all the way up to advanced all supplied for free by the community. This is by far the most popular resource for instructors, however it may not be as suitable for a beginner as most of the resources are written in Esperanto. Maybe still worth checking out though [1] https://edukado.net/ https://edukado.net/

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qwerty456127 7y ago

I bloody wish there were good modern Esperanto courses. I've found a Michel Thomas method Esperanto course once but it was incomplete. I would really love to buy a complete one (even for a price higher than what other languages cost). Intuition suggests I'm not the only one interested although there probably are not too many. This means the demand, albeit humble, certainly is higher than the offer. You might consider running a croudsourcing campaign and making some good modern Esperanto resources if you really feel interested in teaching people Esperanto.

D-Coder 7y ago
Have you tried Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto)? If so, what did you think of it? It's free, with a subscription option for more features.
- qwerty456127 7y ago
  It's nice but fairly boring (e.g. too much repetitions of the same stupid questions) and not even nearly as good as Michel Thomas or Pimsleur. I wish somebody would just take something like one of those courses for e.g. Spanish and replace Spanish words with Esperanto. Obviously that would mean pirating the actual method but it would be blatantly hypocritical of me to pretend I care. With a croudsourcing campaign, however, there are chances to do that (or something even more interesting) officially, pay the royalties etc and I would gladly contribute a reasonable amount of money.
elldoubleyew 7y ago
I personally used Edukado[1] for teaching resources for my course. They have a ton of lesson plans from beginner all the way up to advanced all supplied for free by the community. This is by far the most popular resource for instructors, however it may not be as suitable for a beginner as most of the resources are written in Esperanto. Maybe still worth checking out though [1] https://edukado.net/ https://edukado.net/