Friday, December 6, 2019

It's Clear From The Reaction To What I'm Doing, Esperanto Is A Thought Crime

But the more they pressed them
Sed ju pli oni premis ilin,
sed yoo plee ON-ee PRE-mees EEL-een

the more they multiplied and florished
des pli ili multiĝis kaj kreskis;
des plee EEL-ee  mool-TEE-jees keye KRES-kees

and the Children of Israel were made fearful (to them).
kaj la Izraelidoj fariĝis teruraĵo.
keye la eez-ra-el-EED-oy fa-REE-gees ter-oor-AZJ-yo

And the Egyptians worked the Children of Israel cruelly.
Kaj la Egiptoj laborigis la Izraelidojn kruele.
keye la eg-EEP-toy la-bor-EEG-is la iz-ra-el-EED-oyn kroo-EL-e

And they embittered for them life,
Kaj ili maldolĉigis al ili la vivon
keye EEL-ee mal-dol-CHEE-gees al EEL-i la VEEV-on

with hard labor over clay and bricks,
per malfacila laboro super argilo kaj brikoj,
per mal-fats-EEL-a la-BOR-o SOO-per ar-GEE-lo keye BREEK-oy

and through all kinds of work on the field,
kaj per ĉia laboro sur la kampo,
keye per CHEE-a la-BOR-o sur la KAM-po

through all kinds of jobs,
per ĉiaj laboroj,
per CHEE-ay la-BOR-oy

that they cruelly put on them
kiujn ili kruele metis sur ilin.
KEE-oon EE-le kroo-EL-e ME-tees sur EEL-een.

A few grammar points,  there is no indefinite article in Esperanto, no word for "a" or "an" or "some" (as an indefinite article) it just does without it.

Nouns in their plain singular form all end in -o, plurals are formed by adding a "j", -oj pronounced "oy" as in "toy".

Adjectives end in "a" plurals formed in "aj" in agreement with the nouns or pronouns they modify.

The direct object of a verb adds an "n" to the noun ending, -on, ojn.

But it's not my intention to give you grammar, you can get that from the Zabreb Method lessons.

Though I have become extremely skeptical of the traditional grammar-based learning of languages for "natural" languages, having become convinced that language acquisition methods work entirely better than the way I was brought up,  the regularity of Esperanto might make it the exception to that.  With that in mind, here is the venerable The Esperanto Teacher by Helen Fryer both text and librevox (I haven't listened to all of them so I can't vouch for their quality).

The hardest part of this is typing out the pronunciation. If any Esperantists are out there, let me know when I make a mistake in that.

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