Esperanto-USA

Esperanto-USA (E-USA) is a non-profit organization of Esperanto speakers and supporters of Esperanto in the United States. The League seeks to increase understanding of Esperanto and the world language problem. We invite you to join our community!

In addition to this website, Esperanto-USA operates an on-line bookstore, a Newsletter, and an annual congress for Esperanto speakers. Members receive significant benefits, including the newsletter and discounts at the bookstore and the annual congress.

Click here to learn more about this site, part of our community-editable book about how to use the site.

We'll send you more information about learning and using Esperanto, including the first lesson of our free ten-lesson introductory language course, if you fill out this brief form. If possible, please provide both an e-mail address and a street address. If you are outside the United States, or would prefer an electronic version of the course, you can sign up for an e-mail version here.

NOREK (Nord-Okcidenta Regiona Esperanto-Konferenco) okazos en Eastsound (Vaŝingtonio), ĉe la historia hotelo Outlook Inn—if you're lucky, you may sleep in the same room where Richard Geoghegan slept lo these many years past—la 10an-12an de oktobro. Detaloj baldaŭ haveblos pri kotizoj, luprezoj ktp.

Kaj por 2010, SESano Jim Droege, kiu nun transloĝiĝas de Sauda Arabio al Pakistano, invitis NOREKon al Bremertono, kie lia konstanta loĝejo sidas malloĝata.

Haruo

The board of Esperanto-USA held their annual "Estrarkunsido" in advance of the TutAmerika Kongreso de Esperanto in Montreal, Canada. More than 200 participants have registered and are arriving from countries throughout the hemisphere, as well as international guests from as far away as Japan. The congress, which has been organized by the Montreal Esperanto Association, has an exciting series of presentations planned related to the theme of Ecosystems, languages, cultures: diversity for a sustainable development in the Americas.

You can still register for NASK, the North American Summer Esperanto Institute. For information, follow the NASK link, or see Calendar/Events to the left.


Instructors:

• Bertilo Wennergren (Sweden)
• Birke Dockhorn (Germany)
• Lee Miller (USA)

Note: The course fee is waived for full-time students and teachers!

Contact Ellen Eddy for more information. See the NASK webpage.

Amike,
- filipo

The board of Esperanto-USA has just approved a proposal that our Landa Kongreso for 2009 will be in Saint Louis, May 22-25, 2009. Mark the dates now.

So we will see you in Montreal this July, when we meet jointly with TAKE (The All American Esperanto Congress), and then next year in Saint Louis.

Also keep in mind various other events, such as regional meetings. Click at the left on Calendar / Events.

The scout requirements for the Citizenship in the World merit badge have changed effective Jan 1, 2006. The current requirements for the merit badge are here, and the old requirements are here. Notice the change at the end, where the option to study a foreign language has been removed.

There's an alternate reality game going on right now at findthelostring.com. Ariadne's woken up with a strange tattoo on her arm that says "Trovu la ringon perditan." She wants to know what it means.

We know what it means. It means "find the lost ring."

We know what it means because we speak the International Language Esperanto.

Ariadne is one of 6 people from all over the world who need to communicate with each other to solve a mystery. That's just what Esperanto was created for! In fact, they're decoding a secret codex with 27 chapters hidden all over the world all written in Esperanto, in one chapter it reads:

We chose the language Esperanto for this text because of the difficulties we had communicating with each other.

You can learn to speak it too!