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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 bu

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/

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/