Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation

by William W. Mann

The book also aims at affording a practical guide to Esperanto for the student, who will find, in the section on Grammar, all that he needs to give him full insight into and grasp of the language, enabling him with very little effort to read, write and speak correctly.

By joining an Esperanto Group the learner may have frequent opportunity of conversational practice, and he will soon find that it is by no means a difficult matter to become as fluent in the auxiliary language as in his mother-tongue.[1]

Esperanto is not merely a language for tourists, but already possesses a rich literature of considerable extent, the beginnings of that "Weltlitteratur" foreseen by Goethe; it has a press of its own representing every country of importance in the world, and is constantly being made use of for professional purposes by doctors, scientists, teachers, lawyers, soldiers, sailors, merchants, etc., in every quarter of the globe. It is undoubtedly destined, ere many years have passed, to become a very important factor in the progress of the world.

WILLIAM W. MANN.

London, 1908.

PRINTED AND MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Letchworth: The Garden City Press Ltd.

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CONTENTS.

• Alphabet, with English Phonetic Pronunciation [5]
• Preliminary Notes.—Accents, Vowels, Diphthongs, etc. [7]
• Vocabularies.—Pages [9] to [76].
  • Amusement, Recreation and [41]
  • Animals, Vegetables, &c.:
    • Animals, Birds and Fishes [12]
    • Fruit, Trees, Flowers and Vegetables [15]
    • Reptiles and Insects [14]
  • Colours [17]
  • Commercial Terms [56]
  • Correspondence [61]
  • Countries and Nations [40]
  • Cycling [44]
  • Cooking and Table Utensils [29]
  • House and Furniture, The [34]
  • Legal Terms [54]
  • Mankind:
    • Relations [22]
    • Dress and the Toilet [30]
    • Food and Drink [27]
    • Health [26]
    • Human Body, The [23]
    • Physical and Mental Powers, Qualities, etc. [24]
  • Motoring [47]
  • Numbers: Cardinal, Ordinal, Collective and Fractional [62] to [64]
  • Parts of Speech.—Pages [64] to [76]
    • Adjectives [64]
    • Adverbs, Conjunctions, and Prepositions [72]
    • Verbs [68]
  • Photography [48]
  • Post, Telegraph and Telephone [60]
  • Professions and Trades [52]
  • Recreation and Amusement [41]
  • Religion [50]
  • Telegraph and Telephone (Post, —) [60]
  • Time and Seasons [17]
  • Town, Country, and Agriculture [20]
  • Travelling:
    • By Road and Rail [36]
    • By Ship [39]
  • Washing List [33]
  • World and its Elements, The [9]
    • Land and Water [10]
    • Minerals and Metals [11]
• Grammar.—Pages [77] to [88].
  • The Adjective [77]
  • " Adverb [83]
  • " Article [77]
  • " Conjunction [83]
  • " Noun [77]
  • " Preposition [83]
  • " Pronoun [78]
  • " Verb [81]
• The Formation of Words, etc.—Pages [84] to [88].
  • Prefixes and Suffixes [84] to [87]
  • Compound Words [87]
  • Correlatives [88]
• Conversations.—Pages [89] to [126].
  • Amusements [112]
  • Commercial and Trading [125]
  • Correspondence [122]
  • Custom House, At the [98]
  • Cycling [114]
  • Enquiries [93]
  • Expressions, (Useful and Necessary) [89]
    • Expressions of Emotion [93]
  • Health [105]
  • Legal and Judicial [123]
  • Meals [102] to [105]
    • Breakfast [102]
    • Dinner [103]
    • Tea [104]
  • Money Changing [126]
  • Motoring [115]
  • Photography [117]
  • Post and Telegraph [121]
  • Religion [118]
  • Shopping [108]
    • Dressmaker [110]
    • Laundress [111]
    • Shoemaker [110]
  • Telegraph (Post and) [121]
  • Time of Day, The [118]
  • Times, Seasons, and Weather [119]
  • Town, In [106]
  • Travelling:—
    • Arrival [99]
    • Bus and Tram [100]
    • Changing Money [126]
    • Hotel and Rooms [100]
    • Public Notices [94]
    • Railway, By [95]
    • Steamer, By [97]
  • Useful and Necessary Expressions [89]
• Money.—Equivalent Values [127]
• Weights and Measures; Postage [128]