A Practical Guide to Esperanto

Welcome to my beginner’s guide to Esperanto, a simplified planned language based largely on Romance. It was invented in 1887 to serve as an international auxiliary language, and remains the most popular such language in history.

On this site, you’ll find everything you need to start using Esperanto today.

Click here for some quick random samples.

GRAMMAR

An overview of how Esperanto works

LEXICON

Dictionaries and illustrated vocabularies

EXAMPLES

Esperanto in practice

ABOUT

What is Esperanto?