Multilingual and multicultural people and their identity
Multilingual and multicultural people are increasing in number. Some from curiosity, others from necessity. Their backgrounds vary just as their combinations of languages and cultures do. Polyglots attract respect in the area of language learning, but also mistrust...
Personnes polyglottes et multiculturelles et leur identité
Les personnes polyglottes et multiculturelles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. Certaines par curiosité, d’autres par nécessité. Leurs parcours varient tout comme les combinaisons de langues et de cultures. Les polyglottes suscitent de l’admiration quand il s’agit de...
Conlang Excursions 2: Down the Rabbit-Hole
My previous post gave a brief sketch of Elefen, a.k.a. Lingua Franca Nova, a regularised Romance creole, and pointed out some of the ways in which it resembles and differs from Esperanto. This time I’ll be looking at how well these two languages fare at translating...
History and Esperanto
I am a historian – more precisely, a classicist, i.e. a specialist in the Graeco-Roman world – and an Esperanto-speaker. For some twenty-five years I have taught and researched in this field, concentrating on the period of the Emperor Justinian (A.D. 527-565), for the...
Conlang Excursions 1: A Journey in Elefenland
Constructed languages are fascinating. Beyond the Esperanto-dominated field of IALs (international auxiliaries), creative minds have come up with thousands of experimental or artistic languages, often purely for the pleasure of doing so. In this occasional series,...
Libraries 1: Digital media from the Department of Planned Languages at the Austrian National Library
Since its foundation in 1927, the Esperanto Museum at the Austrian National Library has been holding an extensive library and archives, which were given the name Department of Planned Languages in 1990. Located in the Palais Mollard (see image above) it is home to the...
The politics of language: the case of Hyderabad, ‘Decolonial Subversions’, and Esperanto in an Indian University
Monika begins. Thinking of linguistic justice and decolonisation brings me back to one humid summer afternoon – it must have been around 2010-11 – when, sitting in the living room of an apartment-block in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, I was engrossed in my first...
A letter from the president
In times of crisis, we show what we’re made of. This year, ESF has shown time and time again that it is essential. We didn’t pause our work, waiting for a return to normalcy. Instead, we leveraged our resources and expertise, helping our partners quickly move from...
Esperanto Learning with Major Trivia!
The team at the Culpeper Language Learning Center (Gustavus Adolphus College), along with volunteers from many different locations, are developing a series of free trivia games under the name of Major Trivia to help language learners develop linguistic and vocabulary...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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