title: Esperanto: Learning and Using the International Language
author:  David Richardson 
description: This introductory textbook begins with an extensive English-language introduction, covering the need for an international language, an overview of Esperanto's history, and the international Esperanto community. A series of brief lessons with exercises follows, concentrating on practical communication and vocabulary. The highlight of the book is a graded reader, which includes history, letters, stories, and poetry (both translated from English and drawn from original Esperanto literature) that gradually introduce more advanced usage and additional vocabulary. The book concludes with an abridged Esperanto-to-English dictionary.
zlib_text: **FIELD DAY**  
  by **Jeff Verona**  
  © 2000 - All Rights Reserved
  
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  > When Tevi said that she was a native speaker of Esperanto, I knew there was
  > going to be trouble. "Didn’t the EC office tell you we’re going to
  > Sovereignty?" I asked.
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  > "They are not speaking English on Sovereignty?"
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  > "Of course they do. It’s their only language"
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  > "There will be no problems." Tevi’s small, dark face was calm. "I speak
  > English."
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  > "Not like a native, you don’t. And these Sovereignty people will react badly
  > to that."
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  > "I see." She pursed her lips. "They are an old habitat, then."
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  > "One of the oldest. Part of the first wave, in fact. Sovereignty went up
  > when the Earth’s Lagrange points were still fashionable territory."
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  > "No one is too old to learn wisdom," she said. "Also, they are to educate
  > their children, as everyone must."
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  > "Just as our job is to make sure the kids are being taught. But that’s all
  > we’re here for, Tevi." I lifted a finger in warning. "Th