Back to Studying
Looks like it’s about time to get back to studying Esperanto. I dug out a book I’d gotten about half-way through earlier (the Esperanto edition of Harry Harrison’s A Stainless Steel Rat is Born), and was having some problems. Not with the grammar — I don’t seem to have lost any of that — but my vocabulary’s slipping, so I need to do at least some reviewing, and preferably improve it as well while I’m at it.
Why Esperanto? Well, I like learning things, and I like languages, but the national languages take so darn long to learn enough to read anything except kiddy books! Esperanto is a good compromise (as well as being the language spoken in my Terran Empire stories, though I admit to starting out with Imperial English), with a simple, very regular grammar I could actually read at grown-up level after about a month and a half of studying. Also, my patron deity keeps urging me in that direction, though I haven’t the slightest idea of His reason or reasons!
