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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At two and a half years old, Gabriel Nacu can already boast an unusual skill. He’s beginning to string together full sentences in Esperanto, the language invented in the nineteenth century by the ...

Long seen as a hobby for idealistic eccentrics, the constructed language has had a resurgence in the age of Brexit and Trump. And it’s all centred on a small village near Stoke on Trent In the village ...

Liu: You observe in your piece that “for a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.” You have a surprisingly earnest attitude toward the people you met at the Congress. Did you ever feel ...

More than 100 years ago, the blind Ukrainian writer Vasily Eroshenko was introduced to the language Esperanto. L.L. Zamenhof, the Polish ophthalmologist who constructed the language in the late 19th ...

The singer said the language was easier to learn than other languages A Welsh rock singer has spoken of his love of Esperanto, the language created with the aim of bringing equality to international ...

Young children have a lot to fit into each school day. So making the best use of the little time allocated to learning a foreign language is paramount. In England, state primary schools have been ...