Iu agegas en Britujo

de:  Bill Chapman <[email protected]>


Saluton, Renato

Jen resumo de mia ĝisnuna laboro.


Mi aperigis dum la jaro ĝis nun proks. tridekon da artikoloj en fakaj
genealogiaj revuoj en Britio, Irlando, sono kaj Aŭstralio.  Plue mi
aperigis sep aŭ ok artikoloj en lkaj revuoj senpagaj kaj en kelkaj loaj
retpaĝoj.


*Pli grave* - mi ĵus sendis al granda nombro da ĵurnaloj, revuoj kaj
radio-stacioj informon pri la 130a datreveno de nia lingvo.  Iu
radio-stacio (BB Radio Cymru) ĵus organizis intervjuon kun mi , kaj tio
okazos matene je la 26a. Ŝajnas ke mi instruos iom da esperanto al la
prezentisto! Mi ne dubas ke okazos piaj intervjuoj.


Mi kunsendas tiun informilon mian sube . Ĉu eble Anna aŭ iu alia londonano
povus reverki /adapti mian tekston por eventuala reuzo en Londono? Mi
memoras ke vi iam enciis ke LEK deziras entrepreni ion tian. Oni sentu sin
plene libera ŝanĝi mian tekston.


Bondezirojn



Hilary



World Esperanto Day: Esperanto celebrates its 130th birthday


*Wednesday 26 July* is Esperanto Day and people scattered over the globe
will celebrate a language first published 130 years ago and now spoken on
every continent.


Esperanto started life with one speaker. Its inventor, Ludovic Lazarus
Zamenhof (1859–1917), was born in the multilingual city of Bialystok, in
Russian-controlled Poland, where Jews, Poles, Germans, and Russians lived
in ethnic enclaves and mutual hostility. From his teenage years the Jewish
Zamenhof dreamed of inventing a new language that would bridge ethnic and
national differences — not by replacing native languages, but by becoming a
universally shared common language for people around the world to use with
each other if they were from different linguistic backgrounds. Esperanto
was the result, designed specifically to be simple to learn yet fully
expressive.


On 26 July 1887, Zamenhof unveiled his new language in a thin pamphlet
published in Russian under the pseudonym *Doktoro Esperanto* (“Doctor
Hopeful”), which soon became known as the *Unua Libro* (First Book).


Alternately embraced and mocked, persecuted and ignored, Esperanto has
stubbornly survived, and today it is spoken by an international community
whose members are estimated to number anywhere from scores of thousands to
two million. Many Esperantists open their homes to Esperanto-speaking
travellers and mingle at international holidays where they share the foods
and cultures of their native lands. And a few of them even raise
multilingual children who have Esperanto as one of their native languages,
quite often the consequence of people from different linguistic backgrounds
meeting through Esperanto and subsequently falling in love.


Online, today’s would-be speakers of Esperanto can study for free with the
help of the language-learning app Duolingo, which launched its Esperanto
course for English-speakers two years ago. In that short space of time
nearly one million people have used it to start learning the language.

“Esperanto is not a language promoted by power” says Bill Chapman, Mayor of
Conwy, Wales. “It’s a language promoted by conviction, by hope, by love, by
idealism.” Tim Owen, of the Esperanto Association of Britain, adds
“Esperanto started with a single speaker. Now it is used as a de facto
international language between people all around the world. On the day
Esperanto turns 130, hundreds of people from dozens of countries will be
using it at the 102nd World Esperanto Conference in Seoul, South Korea.”


Chapman,
8 Vardre View, Deganwy, Conwy, LL31 9TE
[email protected]
01492 583420



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*Renato Corsetti, 117 Dukes Avenue, London N10 2QD, UK/Britujo tel.
+393286315655, +447399273515 [email protected]
<[email protected]> <[email protected]>*