East-Central Illinois Esperanto Club / Esperanto-Klubo de Orient-Centra Ilinojo

Once again (like last year) we’ll meet in the Foreign Language Building. We haven’t yet reserved a room, so we’ll meet in the area through the main doors and then select a room that’s free. (If you arrive late, check the nearby classrooms—you’ll find us.

Time: 5:00 PM for the social quarter-hour; we’ll start class at 5:15.

At the end of the summer and the beginning of the semester, here are our next few meetings:

• Good bye to Chris: Thursday the 18th of August, at 2:00 PM en the Espresso Royale on Goodwin, upstairs.
• Quad Day: Sunday the 21st of August, in our booth on the quad.
• Intro to Esperanto: The 25th of August from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in room 212 HoHo (the Honors House at 1205 W. Oregon St. in Urbana).

Come!

I just learned about Facila Vento, a new web-magazine for beginners:

Facila Vento

It has easy-to-read articles on many topics. The articles are also read aloud, so you can practice your listening skills.

A great resource for beginners and mid-level Esperantists.

Our last meeting of the semester will be Thursday May 12th at the usual place and time: room 1120 in the Foreign Language Building at the University of Illinois at 5:30 PM.

We’ll discuss our plans for meeting during the summer and start looking into words for our own “Apples to Apples” card set.

If you’re spending the summer in Champaign, you’ll be gad to know that we will be meeting during the summer. Come and help pick a time for summer meetings. (If you want to attend meetings during the summer, but can’t attend this meeting, let us kow about when you could attend. We want everyone who is interested to be able to attend.)

We won’t meet again until the beginning of the next semester. So, the next meeting will be January 20th, 2011.

Happy Zamenhof Day to everyone!

There’s no regular meeting at 5:30 today—come instead to the Esperanto-Week class at 6:00 in room 215 in the Student Union.

Give us an hour a day for five days and we’ll teach you a foreign language! (Yes, Esperanto really is that easy to learn.)

We’ll be holding our Esperanto-in-a-week class in the Student Union next week. Here’s the details:

(That is, it’s at 6:00 PM every day except Wednesday. The first two days it’s in room 211 and the last two days it’s in room 215. Wednesday is special—it’s at 8:00 PM in room 403.)

Come! Learn a language!

Today I’ll be giving a repeat of my short talk about Esperanto at 5:30 in the Foreign Language Building. Come for the free food!

Tomorrow will be our first regular meeting of the semester and the beginning of our beginners class, also at 5:30 in the Foreign Language building.

The first meeting of the new semester will be Thursday, the 26th of August at 5:30 PM in the atrium of the Foreign Language Building. (We’ll move to a free room. So, if you arrive late, check for us in the nearby rooms.)

We also invite current members to come one day earlier for a pre-meeting meeting: at 6:00 PM Wednesday in the same location, for planning the first meeting. (We’ll check the rooms, talk about the introductory presentation, and so on.)

The first meeting of the summer will take place today at 5:15 PM in the Espresso Royale at 1117 West Oregon in Urbana (across from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts). Come!

Those who attended will report on the landa kongreso, and we’ll discuss whether this is the best time and place for meetings for the rest of the summer.