Pardonu min…Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?” is Esperanto for “Excuse me, do you speak Esperanto?” While most people will not understand this phrase, the language was created to be a universal tongue. In ...

Your April 2 editorial “Schools promote learning–at last” is misnamed. Though the changes you endorse in Chicago schools–requiring deficient students to repeat grades–are desirable, they don’t put ...

Regarding the letter titled “Esperanto, a key to other learning” (Voice, April 9): The proposal by its author, Kent Jones, that children study Esperanto in school before they study English ignores one ...

On a recent Friday evening, the Esperanto Society of New York convened in a rowhouse on Manhattan’s East 35th Street. The upper floors of the building seemed to house a bilingual preschool, going by ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

Littlewoods Direct says it's using a language constructed in the 19th Century, Esperanto, to launch a new clothing range. Who still learns this language, and why? "Behold my fantastic invention to ...

For a language meant to serve as a means of universal communication, Esperanto is frequently—and ironically—misunderstood. The most popular constructed language in the world was created in 1887 by L.L ...

More than 100 years after it was invented, Esperanto is spoken by relatively few people. But the internet has brought new life to this intriguing, invented language. In a small house in north London, ...

A hundred years ago, a Polish physician created a language that anyone could learn easily. The hope was to bring the world closer together. Today... Esperanto Is Not Dead: Can The Universal Language ...

If a Turk, a Cuban, an Armenian and an American were in the same room, which language would they speak to each other? English? Not always. They could be speaking in Esperanto, an artificial language ...