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Meeting today!
Our regular meeting will take place at the usual time and place ( 5:00 PM at the Foreign Language building). Come! We’ll discuss the just-ended annual convention of Esperanto-USA.
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Meet us in St. Louis!
Because of the end of the school year, and because of the Esperanto jarkunveno, we won’t meet next week. Instead, join us at the jarkunveno itself! We still need to decide whether we’re going to try to meet over the summer. Check here for updates.
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We are meeting this week!
Despite final exams, we will meet this week at the usual time and place. Agenda: Will we meet next week (just before the jarkunveno in St. Louis)? Will we meet over the summer? Conversation in Esperanto!
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If you like John Hodgman…
My brother just translated a brief excerpt from Hodgman’s book (at his request). Read all about it: John Hodgman Spertulo Ankaŭ pri Esperanto (in Esperanto)
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On the agenda for April 29, 2009
Topics: Does everyone feel ready for the jarkunveno in St. Louis? About the email to the group from Germann Esperantist Stephan Mayer, who will visit Illinois during June, July and August, and is searching for places to spend the night. Two songs selected by Jack that we’ll read, understand, and listen to. Whatever else comes [...]
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New room: 1046
Note: Beginning today we’ll be meeting in a new room: 1046 (still in the Foreign Language Building). If that room’s occupied, we’ll just pick some nearby classroom to use instead.
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The truth about the owl’s nest
During the last meeting, Darcy mentioned the word gufo as the Esperanto word for “owl,” which surprised me because I knew word for owl as strigo. So, I checked into the two words. First, I checked the Universala Vortaro, to verify that both words really are fundamenta: strig’ hibou | owl | Eule | сова [...]
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Postcards and questions
At yesterday’s meeting, I suggested that we create a list of questions that people might ask at the jarkunveno. Questions like: What is your name? Where are you from? What do you do? I asked everyone to send a couple of questions to the Esperanto_Champaign list. For next meeting I’ll make a list and we [...]
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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 [...]
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