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Ian Fantom Editor Esperanto Britain |
Welcome to a new kind of website, the first of its kind in
English, a
commercial news service called 'Esperanto
Britain'. It offers news about Esperanto and related
language issues, such as language rights of minority ethnic
cultures, in the UK and abroad. The new site kicks off
with an extensive collection of past news items from NetNews,
the recent email newsletter from the Esperanto Association of
Britain, which was featured also on this site last year. The
coverage so far includes such diverse areas as
'Esperanto Britain' is part of Ĝangalo, the Esperanto-language news site covering world events inside and outside the Esperanto community. Ĝangalo is run by an international team, whose headquarters is in Sao Paulo, Brazil, headed by entrepreneur and linguist Flavio Rebelo. He reports: "Our company, Lingva, has a unique team, not only in dealing with the technical issues, but also, due to our world-wide contacts, as a news agency on Esperanto-related affairs". Esperanto Britain also has facilities for current awareness. You can register for instant notification of new news items, or new events, as these are announced. A special feature for Esperanto Britain is a monthly newsletter, which contains a digest of the previous month's news, in the style of the previous NetNews. "This is an exciting time for Esperanto", says editor of Esperanto Britain, Ian Fantom, "There is a growing awareness of the language problem, and of the problems arising when you impose one culture on another. Esperanto has really sprung to life in recent years for many people who in the past would normally be just practising the language in local clubs, and who would only occasionally use the language 'for real', when travelling abroad, or accepting foreign guests. The arrival of the Internet, cheap voice communication, and low-cost travel are now encouraging thousands of people to use Esperanto on a daily basis". "The problem is:", he adds, "hardly anyone outside the Esperanto community in Britain ever gets to hear of it. Esperanto Britain will change all that". |
 Flavio Rebelo Ĝangalo |
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