If any of these links are not dead, need correcting, or if you have recommendations please let me know.
In Support of Esperanto
More Casual
- The ‘One Show’ does Esperanto (January 2010, You Tube Video) – really good coverage
- Peter Jameson’s Secret Language by Sylvan Zaft (a not-so-short children’s story in English involving Esperanto)
- A beginners guide to Esperanto – more of a historical overview and explanation (Guardian UK, July 2003 by David Newnham)
- LL Zamenhof and the Shadow People, The Amazing Story Of How Esperanto Came To Be (The New Republic, Dec 2009; Â by Esther Schor)
- Learn Esperanto to Learn French, Chinese, or Yiddish (Nissa Annakindt, August 2009)
- Conference Proves that Esperanto can be the Language of Love (Times Online, July 2009)
- Esperanto is a Family Affair in Serbia (Earth Times, September 2009)
- Dr On-Who-Hopes (The Jewish Week, June 2009)
- Learn Esperanto (Learning Language Advisor)
- How Esperanto Changed My Life (PDF) (Arlyn Kerr, December 2008)
- Esperanto, a common language in Europe?
- Universal Language Requirement (Bruce Arne Sherwood, “Physics Today”, July 1979)
- Transparent Language: Esperanto BLog
- “a Language for the Rest of Us” (Sylvan Zaft, December 2007)
- Esperanto as a Foreign Language Choice on Change.org (Jan 2009)
- Why Esperanto Is Different, New English Review (Dec, 2007)
- Esperanto, The International Language That Works,
- Mondeto – A second Language for All Children
- Europe Democracy Esperanto (2009?)
- Esperanto is (Esperanto estas …)
- Political Esperanto: Rhetorical Resources and Limitations of The Christian Right in the United States (2005)
- BLog – Geoff in Nanjing, China teaching at a University where Esperanto is the second most used language (May 2008)
- Reasons to Learn Esperanto
- The Bahai Answer to Bable: The Yale Globalist (Jan 2009)
- Esperanto and the Red Cross (June 1996)
- You say what On American campuses, Esperanto is an extracurricular language – the Boston Phoenix (Jan. 2009)
- What is Esperanto? What can it do for you? – An Amazing Mind
- Crocodiling in Esperanto On the Streets of Hanoi – (Aug. 2007)
- A humorous Daily Show piece featuring William Shatner and the re-release and remastering of Incubus (video, April 1999)
- Tim Morley teaches Esperanto to Kelly Clarkson on the Paul O’Grady Show (Oct. 2005)
- The Math Behind the Assertion that It Really Would Make Sense to make Esperanto the World’s Default Second Language
More Technical or Indepth
- Wikipedia entry for Esperanto or  Knowledge Rush Entry for Esperanto
- Doctoro Esperanto’s Dream (The Chronicle Review)
- Is Esperanto? A Joke or a Serious Option? (John Wells, 2003)
- Educational Value of Esperanto Study: An American View, The (1983, The Educational Resources Information Center)
- Educational Resources Information Center (100+ items)
- Esperanto – a Language for a Global Village (Sylvan Zaft, 2002)
- Esperanto Book, The (Don Harlow, 1995)
- Esperanto: Part I, Part II, Part III from Planet Earth, Our Home (Dec 2008)
- Esperanto – The New Latin for the Church and for Ecumenism (May 2002)
- Esperanto and Esperantism: Symbols and Motivations in a Movement for Linguistic Equality (David K. Jordan, 1987 Language Problems & Language Planning)
- Contribution of the International Language Esperanto Towards Linguistic Diversity, The (PDF) by Abel Montagut – a Romance Philologist
- Psychological Reactions to Esperanto by Claude Piron (Documents sur l’espéranto in the mid-1980)
- Dunning-Kruger Effect – Wikipedia Article
- Open letter to the members of the European Parliament, by Claude Piron (February 1996)
- Esperanto – a way to humanism – International Humanist and Ethical Union (June 2006)
- Esperanto – a reply to some arguments against Esperanto
- One Language For The World and how to achieve it by Mario Pei (1958)
- Prague Manifesto (drafted in 1996 at the World Congress of Esperanto)
- Esperanto Hearing before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives (March 1914)
- Esperanto Study: and Overview (Humphrey Tonkin and Mark Fettes, 1996)
- Remarks on the Esperanto Symposium by Mario Pei (International Language Review, Jul.-Sep. 1993)
Text Based
Learning Tools (In English)
- Dictionaries/Online Translation
- Apertium (English-> Esperanto towards the bottom of the list, but they do not seem to have Esperanto -> English which I find strange)
- Ergane (via TravLang; from many languages to many languages)
- Dictionary BLog (Votaro Blogo) (mostly in Esperanto)
- Dict.cc (crowd-sourced Esperanto->English dictionary?)
- Esper (an English < –> Esperanto webpage/text translation service)
- Esperanto – English Dictionary (@ Panorama – 15,000+ words)
- Esperanto – English Glossary (@ Panorama)
- Lingoes (Chinese/English <–> Esperanto) Translator
- Gram Trans (various languages -> Esperanto)
- Majstro (an English < –> Esperanto webpage/text translation service)
- My Memory @ Translated.net (crowd-sourced translation)
- Plena Manlibro Esperanta Gramatiko
- Reta Vortaro (an English < –> Esperanto text translation service)
- Traduku (an English < –> Esperanto webpage/text translation service)
- Komputada Leksikono (Computer and Mathematics Dictionary)
- Komputeko (computer terminology translator)
- Online Courses
- List of Online Esperanto Courses (Don Harlow)
- List of Esperanto International Tutorials (Esperanto.net)
- Master Any Language (MAL) – Esperanto
- Live Mocha (subscription required)esper
- Offline Course
- Jagiellonian University Esperanto Course for all – also by Internet for Certificate?
- MIT‘s Society for Esperanto
- North American Summer Esperanto Institute (NASK) (3 weeks in San Diego; college credit possible,)
- Stanford University
- Universities Worldwide (teaching for Credit and not for Credit Esperanto Courses)
- University of San Diego (for credit?)
- Other Learning Tools and Sites
- 10 minutes or less – learn a lot about the Esperanto language by Sylvan Zaft
- A key to the international language by the Esperanto Society of Chicago
- Children Around the World
- Complete Grammar of Esperanto (via Google Books)
- Enrique’s Esperanto Page
- Elements of Esperanto podcasts by Sylvan Zaft
- Esperanto.net
- Esperanto 101 (@ 101 Languages)
- Esperanto Grammar – Wikipedia article
- Esperanto Lessons Podcasts by Sylvan Zaft
- Esperanto Search on Study Stack
- Esperanto Teacher, The (MP3’s, Helen Fry)
- Esperanto Words Pronounced (2000+ words @Forvo)
- Eurotalk (Esperanto) CD’s
- General Expressions, Esperanto Society of Chicago
- Getting Started With Esperanto: Kiel Komenci Esperanton @ Mindprod
- Internet Archive listing (48 results of text, audio, visual in English and Esperanto)
- iTalki – learn Esperanto
- iTunes podcasts for learning Esperanto
- Lernu!
- List of Esperanto Courses
- Mastering Correlatives by Sylvan Zaft
- Myngle (online social learning site, instructor led courses for pay)
- Smart.FM Flash Cards (looks cool – 5+ pages)
- Transparent Language – some Esperanto learning tools
- Universal Esperanto Portal
- uTalk Esperanto (iPhone app for learning Esperanto $9.99)
In Esperanto
- Wunderground – Weather underground
- Parlo, Mondo
- Stainless Steel Rat series (on Amazon) – its in English but the the main character speaks some Esperanto (by Harry Harrison)
- Comics
- Speaking to the World (News?)
- Catholic Hope Magazine (Archives)
- Esperanto Culture Festival
- Wikibooks: Esperanto
- Wikipedia in Esperanto
- Old Esperanto Hymnal
- Free Paper (Libera Folio) (an independent paper)
- Event EO (A news reporting site)
- International Humanist Esperanto Portal
- Gazetejo (Esperanto magazines – download Esperanto magazines)
- Sherlock Holmes stories
- Books in Esperanto at I-Espero.info
- Night Watchmen by Sergey Lukyanenko
- Esperanto Magazines
- China Radio International
- Retejo
- diVERse
- Reta Informado-Centro (Central Information Network)
- Tekstaro.com (collection of texts)
- Esperanto Usenet Group (via Google)
- Languagefest
- Scrabble (Skrablo)
- Total Mongolia
- Translation of some children’s books into Esperanto
- chenero
- Sheet Music??
In English
- High Beam Research – articles on Esperanto (1,600+ results) (subscription – 1 week free trial)
- Questia School – research and articles on Esperanto
- Cite U Like
- Go Get Papers
- Technorati List of Esperanto BLogs
- Scribd
- Google Directory
- Delbarrio (BLog)
- Esperanto Friends (BLog)
- Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto (Geoffrey Sutton, 2008)
Audio (in Esperanto)
- CRI Online (China)
- Radio Havana, Cuba
- Radio Esperanto (Russia)
- 3ZZZ Radio Archive (Melbourne, Australia)
- Esperanto Radio Archive
- Music from around the world
- Radio Active Podcast (ERAÂ @Ameriko too) (Montevideo, Uruguay)
- Polish Radio; more Polish Radio
- Green Radio (Radio Verda) (Canada?)
- Chi Tie Nun (podcast)
- epseran.to Podcast
- Osiek
- RAI International Online (Italian site, link towards the top)
- Radio International (Italy)
- Last FM (music labeled Esperanto)
- Music Express
- Varsovia Vento Klubo
- Vatican Radio (here and here too)
- NPR segments about Esperanto
- Vinilkosmo (Esperanto Music Group)
- Dolchmar (Esperanto Music Group)
- La Pafklik (Esperanto Music Group… I think? or at least their site is in Esperanto)
- Librivox Google Search for Esperanto
- The European Song Fan Ring (Esperanto Music)
- Esperanto Music Albums (a historical list in Wikipeida)
Video
- IMDB list of 16 movies that have the Esperanto language in it.
- Ne Plu Pikniko (No More Picnic) – an artsy independent file in Esperanto that won Best Satire Short at the NYIIFV Festival 2008 and is on to Cannes 2009.
- Incubus (A 1965 all Esperanto movie starring William Shatner) available from Amazon
- Angroj (Agonies) – a 1964 French movie in Esperanto
- Idiot’s Delight – 1939 film with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable at the beginning of  WWII that is based in a nameless European country where the locals speak/read/write Esperanto so as not to offend
- Space Race – a 1935 Russian film with Esperanto subtitles
- Evolution of Peter Senkov, The – (a short film for the 2006 Russian Animation Film Festival with Esperanto subtitles)
- Gattaca (1997) – Esperanto appears in text form in this movie
- Blade: Trinity – Whistler has a conversation in Esperanto.
- Red Dwarf – the British series has a bit of Esperanto in it
- Katamari Damacy (PS2, PSP , PS3 video game) – The King and Prince of All Cosmos speak Esperanto
- Children’s Fables (via Google Code with Russian Authorship)
- Monster.com commercial with Esperanto
- dotSub – videos in Esperanto
- Overstream – videos with Esperanto?
- YouTube videos of Esperanto
- The Language Challenge by Claude Piron (video)
- Mogulus TV
- Mazi – Esperanto Cartoon for kids (1 of 18) (Ning) (Mazi on You Tube)
- Trailer for ‘Espero’, an original Esperanto sitcom
- World TV
- TV Esperanto (via TV Bialystock, PL)
- AOL Video: Esperanto
- My Space Videos
- Farbskatol
- Over Stream (9+ pages of videos in Esperanto)
- Open Subtitles (2 pages of movies and TV Shows)
- All4Divx – subtitles in Esperanto for DivX
- Fimloj.net
- La Ponto
- Esperanto TV
- ITVC (Poland)
- Some TED talks subtitled in Esperanto
Products In or About Esperanto
- PDF Search Engine (Esperanto)
- Froogle (5,000+ items)
- Barnes and Noble (7+ pages)
- Cafe Press [T-Shirts and more] (10+ pages)
- Esperanto USA’s Hypermart
- Amazon(3+ pages)
- EBay (100+ items)
- Esperanto USA’s Hypermart
- Book Shop Catalog for Esperanto Association of Great Britain
- Esperanto on Yahoo
- Google Book Search (Esperanto)
- Internet Archive (2 pages)
- Many Books
- Esperanto Torrents
- Project Gutenberg
- The Esperanto Teacher, by Helen Frye
- Zamenhoff’s books
- all Esperanto books
Social Networking and Translators
- Eklaboru – connecting Esperanto speakers with work – Kewl! =)
- Christian Orthodox Esperanto Yahoo Group
- Amikumu (Esperanto Social Networking) – it is having issues
- Esperanto Correspondence Service
- Esperanto Language Exchange
- Chatonic (Esperanto Chat room with Video and Voice options)
- Ipernity (social networking)
- Kalku (?an Esperanto Twitter like site?)
- Polyglot (email pen pal exchange to learn foreign Languages (including Esperanto)
- Esperanto Twitter-Group
- Esperanto US – Globe Trotter (Ning)
- Yahoo Groups
- Esperanto Meetups via Meetup.com
- Translators Cafe (Where Linguists and Their Clients Meet)
- Pro-Z Professional Translation Services (has quite a few Esperanto Translators)
- Fluent in 3 Months (Translator BLog)
- Facebook Avatar overlay with Green Star viaTwibbon
- Translation Directory
- Translated.net
Software Support for Esperanto
Software
- Course in Esperato (Kurso de Esperanto) Free software
- Ek (a Esperanto letter toolbar thingy – in Esperanto)
- Ergane 8.0 Translator (software)
- Esperantilo (Text Editor)
- Esperantilo Open Office Extension for Esperanto dictionary and grammar checker)
- Esp Type (character typing assistant + 100+ fonts that support the Esperanto character set)
- Filemake Pro format version of Ergane
- Esper 2.2 – literal English < –> Esperanto tranlator (download here also)
- Grafikilo( simple drawing program?)
- Social Church Management Software that supports Esperanto
- Litova-Esperanto Klavaro (Esperanto character typing App)
- Lingvo Helpilo (a fairly robust online text editor)
- Source Forge software listing that supports Esperanto (107 results)
- Teach Me! Learning Language: Esperanto ($48)
- Transparent Language : Languages of the World (Esperanto) (Software $19.95)
- Esperantilo (Esperanto text editor with grammar and spelling checker for Linux and Windows; In Beta)
- Tajpi (Esperanto Letter toolbar thingy)
- Translate: Esperanto 1.24 ($12 for Palm Pilot?)
- Pato Viro Simulilo (a new  free computer game in Esperanto, August 2009)
- Lexicool Bar – Small toolbar that will give you access to Esperanto’s non-standard characters
- Merkuro – Jabber based instant messenger client with Esperanto interface
- Simredo – Java based unicode editor
Flash Card
- Twinkle (Palm Pilot)
- Super Memo
- Anki
- LingvoSoft FlashCards 2009 (8000 words/phrases for Esperanto in English; $50)
- JMemorize (Java based)
- Teach 2000
- Smart.FM Flash Cards (looks cool – 5 pages worth)
- BYKI (2 pages of Esperanto flash cards)
User Interface Language Support for Esperanto
- Drupal: is available in Esperanto (an open source content management system)
- European Union Website: is in Esperanto
- Firefox – an open source and free browser – which ‘Totally roxors my boxors!!’
- Gimp -Â an open source and image editing software for Linux
- Google’s Interface is available as a language and you can specifically search Esperanto only sites.
- GNU Esperanto Translation Team: looking for help in translating part of their website into Esperanto
- Ubuntu -Â an open source and Linux Distro
- Wikipedia: is available in Esperanto (an online encyclopedia)
- WordPress: is available in Esperanto (an open source content management system)
Organizations
- Academy of Esperanto (the official Esperanto Language oversight org)
- Esperanto Association of Great Britain
- Esperanto USA
- MIT Society for Esperanto
- List of Real Esperanto Libraries throughout the world
- Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF)
- Esperanto Lobby (UK/EU)
- Unitarian Universalist Esperanto Network
- Esperanto Education (Britain)
- International Union for Catholic Esperantists
- Unitarian Universalist Esperanto Network
- Herzberg, Germany(more info)
- University of Rochester
- American Association of Teachers of Esperanto
- Scout Esperanto League
- Mensperanto (Mensa) – Mensa Special Interest Group
- International League of Esperanto Teachers (Esperanto only)
- International Society for Esperanto Conferences (OSIEK)
- Baha’i Esperanto League
- Buddhist Esperantists League
- International League of Christian Esperantists
- Quaker Esperanto
- Oomoto Esperanto (Japan)
Custom Search Engine
Esperanto Travel
- Frugal Travel with Esperanto
- Kefalonia (travel agency site available in Esperanto)
- Servas
- Pasporta Servo
Nay Sayers
- “Learn Not to Speak Esperanto” — Countered by Claud Piron – “ Learn Not to Speak Esperanto“
- “Is Esperanto’s Vocabulary Bloated?”
- “Esperanto — A Critique”
- “Sidebar: The Irregularities of Esperanto”
I have been following the Prop 8 Trial for the last week or so via the Prop 8 Trial Tracker and I can say I am really confused with the Defendants – the Pro-Prop 8 people. Their witnesses were to our advantage and their cross-examination of our witnesses yielded pretty much nothing of really use. Both of the witnesses they called came off as incompetent and/or sleazy. It was sad to see … in a good way.
I know that they do not have a rational or logical argument against Same-Sex Marriage,
but this was sad almost to the point of hoping that they declare a mistrial because their counsel seemed completely inept and out classed by the Olson/Boise juggernauts. I am happy to see that,
because it reinforces the legitimacy of Same-Sex Marriage issue,
but it also makes me worry as to what they are really up to.
I am pretty sure they were expecting an appeal regardless of who won this first round, so perhaps they have something more vicious planned for the appellate court. They cannot add new evidence or testimony there, but perhaps they are planning on hiring competent counsel to argue their case. The evidence and testimony that they submitted was not too inspiring. Perhaps they may leave it at losing here at the District Court level and not take it too the Supreme Court to minimize the damage, in hopes that this case will not be used as further precedent for other cases across the country? I am not sure what is going on here, but it is worry-some.
Our evidence and testimony was pretty much on target and unflappable. With Loving vs Virginia and Brown vs Board of Education in our courts to show that marriage is a fundamental right, and separate is not equal, respectively, I am thinking that we have a great case in our favor.
Now we wait for the judge to review the testimony and evidence given, and then the court will take on filings for Amicus Briefs, and then Closing Arguments. I do not like this wait at all. There is so much at stake here, but I am quite hopeful.
