Dear Friends, In this beautiful season of year-end celebrations, we here at ESF send our warmest greetings and wish you and your family a happy and hope-filled 2018. We also thank all of you who donated for your generous and faithful support, and we thank the volunteers at Lernu.net, Edukado.net …
Dear Friend of ESF, This year, the Foundation has had one of its best years ever. In our continued efforts to support Esperanto and to lay the groundwork for the teaching and learning of Esperanto, we have enjoyed a whole series of new successes. We have also won new friends …
Tekstaro 3.1 provides users with several improvements. Important works from several periods of Zamenhof’s life have been added to the currently available body of Zamenhof’s writings. An update to the interface now allows specifying several search terms simultaneously. This gives new possibilities to discover, compare, and contrast details of the …
ESF has launched a new English-language web-based bulletin giving information on new developments in the field of planned languages, interlinguistics, and language planning. The bulletin, Information for Interlinguists, will list details of upcoming events, new publications in the field, reports on recent conferences, and a host of other useful information …
Join a new group of students for the unique Interlinguistic Studies program in Poznan, Poland, for the 2017-2020 academic period, and celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary during the Fourth Interlinguistics Symposium this September! Once every three years a new group begins its studies as part of the Interlinguistic Studies program …
Charles O. Mays has been appointed Executive Director of the Esperantic Studies Foundation, to take office on July 1, 2017. He will succeed Joel Amis, who is resigning to complete his studies for the Master of Divinity degree, leading to ordination in the Anglican Church of Canada. Chuck Mays is …
An oft-repeated aim of the Sustainable Development Goals is that they should “leave no one behind” and should concentrate on the most vulnerable populations. They should also encourage two-way communication, not just top-down solutions. But has anyone thought about the role of language in this process? Not enough people, according …
The author of “Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language”, Esther Schor, professor of English at Princeton University, and Sam Green, documentary filmmaker and director of “The Universal Language”, will answer the audience’s questions, following an illustrated lecture and film screening. When: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 6:30 …
NASK (North American Summer Esperanto Institute) returns to William Peace University in Raleigh, North Carolina, for the fourth time this year. NASK is the longest-running North American Esperanto course and one of the most important programs supported by Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF). It is a unique educational event that attracts …
Dear Friend, The past year has been a particularly busy and successful year for the Esperantic Studies Foundation. This year, our North American Esperanto Institute (NASK) was extremely well attended; we were significant contributors of scholarships to the Adam Mickiewicz University graduate program in Esperanto and Interlinguistics (Poznan); and we …
