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Title: Being Colloquial in Esperanto: A Reference Guide by David K. Jordan ISBN: 0-939785-04-8 Publisher: Esperanto League for North Amer Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jordan has a real feel for the language.
Comment: While a straightforward and logical tongue, Esperanto is not English, and beginners tend to think English-ly while writing Esperanto-ly. (And that last sentence is just one of the many ways I could use to demonstrate that one must adjust one's thinking just a tad to become more fluent and universally understood when learning to be more proficient in the language.)
Jordan makes the learning fun. He peppers the book with humor and with wordplay (even the title gets a chuckle) and shows himself the linguist that he is in everyday life. There is much which is fundamental in the book, and yet there are curiosities and rarities that one might find elsewhere only with great difficulty, and these serve to whet the reader's curiosity and lead him on to the next chapter. I loved this book and in a personal letter to the author (before the advent of e-mail) I let him know that my only criticism of _Being Colloquial_ was that there was just too little of the book. Is a mouse the polar opposite of an elephant? In Esperanto, it might be! Jog your grey matter and have fun doing it -- and learn the language which has been, for over a century, the most universal and successful of all planned languages. Talk to non-English-speakers all over the world. Just DO it! It may change your life. I know it changed mine.
Rating: 5
Summary: A *very* useful book!
Comment: There are some fine introductory books in Esperanto (and you can get a pretty good start from the free 10-lesson email course easily found with any internet search engine); this book is probably not the best FIRST textbook (though I think it could be used as a first book without too much trouble), but it is an AMAZING second book, with more information on subtleties of expression in Esperanto (and there are *some* -- it's still a foreign language, albeit one with a very regular grammar, and its logic is not always identical to the logic (such as it is) behind English) than I've seen in any other english language textbook. It's also fun to read.
Once you've wet your feet a little (excuse the metaphor), if you want more, this is an excellent book to own.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, a little dated
Comment: Yes, this book did help my esperanto a little, but some of the language is a tad dated. You'd be better off learning it from the internet.
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Title: Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary: Esperanto-English/English-Esperanto by J. C. Wells ISBN: 0844237647 Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Esperanto by John Cresswell, John Hartley ISBN: 0844237639 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Esperanto-English English-Esperanto Dictionary & Phrasebook by Joseph F. Conroy ISBN: 0781807360 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Arabic Complete Course by Jack Smart, Frances Altorfer ISBN: 0658015877 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns by Naoko Chino ISBN: 4770026080 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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