Esperanto : A Language for the Global Village
Copyight © 2002 Sylvan Zaft (1935-2015). Here is a list of chapters for this electronic edition of Zaft’s book Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village. You may make electronic copies and paper copies for your personal use, and you may freely distribute verbatim copies which include this notice provided that you do not charge for these copies. You may not post this material to any web site. You are invited to insert links to this web site. This book and three others by the same author – Mastering the Correlatives, 14 Tales from the Esperanto and Peter Jameson’s Secret Language – are available on Amazon Kindle. Here
CONTENTS
1. The Dream and the Reality
2. From a Dream to a Reality
3. The Ultimate Authority in Esperanto
4. Spelling Esperanto
5. Pronouncing Esperanto
6. Ambiguity or Understanding
7. Where English is an Easy Language too
8. The Cost-Benefit Ratio
9. Real Life Experiences with Esperanto
10. No Stumbling over Idioms
11. Word Formation in Esperanto
12. The Pattern-Making Power of the Human Mind
13. One Word – Many Words
14. Can Feelings be Expressed in Esperanto
15. A Minor Difficulty of Esperanto
16. A Major Difficulty of Esperanto
17. Two Ways to Form New Words
18. Two More Difficulties of Esperanto
19. A Fine Literary Language
20. A Still Easier Language?
21. The Propagandists and the Raumists
22. Esperanto and Education
23. The resistance to Esperanto
24. A Unique Language for the Whole World