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First summer meeting

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-06-03
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 [...]
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Summer Meetings

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-05-10
We won’t meet again until after the landa kongreso. (If you’ll be attending: Enjoy!) We’re tentatively planning to resume meeting at the same time during the summer: Thursdays at 5:15 PM. The first summer meeting will take place June 3rd. Until then!
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End-of-semester picnic Thursday

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-05-05
Thursday May 6th is the Esperanto group picnic! We’ll met at the usual time and place (room 1120 Foreign Language Building at 5:15 PM). If the weather is good, we’ll go outside to the quad. Come! If you can, bring food to share, but don’t let that keep you from coming! This will be our [...]
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Scrabble and celebration

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-02-27
This week’s meeting we played scrabble and celebrated Darcy’s birthday.
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Meeting changes

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-02-02
We’re making some minor changes in our meeting schedule. Thursday meeting for beginners We’ll still have our regular Thursday meetings in the Foreign Language Building, Room 1120 at 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM, but these meetings will now focus specifically on beginners.  Our plan is to work our way through Gerda Malaperis, together with other [...]
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Public presentation on Esperanto

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-01-21
What is Esperanto, the easy-to-learn international language, all about? Come to this brief presentation which will discuss the basics of the language, study abroad and cheap travel opportunities, the culture of Esperantists, and the offerings of the Esperanto@UIUC RSO. Free classes begin the following week, so come check it out! PS: There will be noms. [...]
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It’s a new semester!

By pbrewer | Published: 2010-01-19
Welcome back! Our current plan is that we’ll continue meeting at our usual time (5:15 PM Thursdays) in our usual place (Foreign Language Building).  These meetings will focus on teaching Esperanto to beginners and near-beginners. One thing that we want to talk about at our first meeting (January 21) is adding a second weekly meeting [...]
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Schedule during semester break

By pbrewer | Published: 2009-12-10
Here’s our schedule: December 10th we’ll meet as usual December 17th we’ll celebrate Zamenhof Day Decembero 24th through Januaro 14th we won’t meet January 21st we’ll meet as usual. Enjoy the season!
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No meeting November 26th, 2009

By pbrewer | Published: 2009-11-20
Because it will be Thanksgiving, we won’t meet on November 26th, 2009.
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On going to ARE

By pbrewer | Published: 2009-10-04
The Fall Esperanto Weekend (ARE) is a first-rate Esperanto meeting in the United States.  It takes place every year during the Columbus Day weekend.  The last few years it has been at Silver Bay in New York.  It is jointly organized with the Quebec Esperanto Society, so it’s one of the most international Esperanto conferences [...]
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