About ten people attended the five day affair. Perhaps half were beginners; the others were already members of our new local group.
We had two goals. First, to raise the level of Esperanto ability of the beginners enough that they would be able to fully participate in the regular meetings. Second, to enable the students (who actually did participate in those meetings) to be able to fully participate in the jarkunveno in St. Louis.
We used the textbook Teach Yourself Esperanto, which worked pretty well. The book is particularly for someone who doesn’t have a class. Perhaps for that reason, the exercises are not fully appropriate for a group. We didn’t do the “translate into Esperanto” exercises, because the time to do each one was too long (with the other class members waiting). But we did do the “translate into Esperanto,” the “questions” and the “dialogs.”
In one hour a day for five days we finished five chapters. That, we’re hoping, will suffice.
Esperanto week was a great success
About ten people attended the five day affair. Perhaps half were beginners; the others were already members of our new local group.
We had two goals. First, to raise the level of Esperanto ability of the beginners enough that they would be able to fully participate in the regular meetings. Second, to enable the students (who actually did participate in those meetings) to be able to fully participate in the jarkunveno in St. Louis.
We used the textbook Teach Yourself Esperanto, which worked pretty well. The book is particularly for someone who doesn’t have a class. Perhaps for that reason, the exercises are not fully appropriate for a group. We didn’t do the “translate into Esperanto” exercises, because the time to do each one was too long (with the other class members waiting). But we did do the “translate into Esperanto,” the “questions” and the “dialogs.”
In one hour a day for five days we finished five chapters. That, we’re hoping, will suffice.