by Humphrey Tonkin | Dec 15, 2020 | [ENGLISH], ESF (in English)
Dear Friend of ESF, Every year, the board of the Esperantic Studies Foundation gets together for a weekend retreat, in which we review our activities and make plans for the future. This year, we were unable to gather in person, so we organized a series of virtual...
by Humphrey Tonkin | Dec 1, 2020 | [ENGLISH], ESF (in English)
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...
by Jeremy Robinson | Nov 30, 2020 | [ENGLISH], Education
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...
by Mark Fettes | Nov 16, 2020 | [ENGLISH], Politics
Imagine being involved in a court case that takes place in a language you have trouble following or expressing yourself in. Imagine finding yourself on a hospital ward where no one understands anything you say. Imagine living in a country for all of your life and...
by Humphrey Tonkin | Oct 19, 2020 | [ENGLISH], ESF (in English), Politics
There’s a lot about language that we don’t understand – or willfully ignore. For example, there’s much controversy about where language came from, who invented it, and why. Did we create language because we had the organs of speech and the desire to speak, or did we...
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