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Interviews and Articles

• A Wired article from August 1996. This article discusses Esperanto in the context of constructed languages.


• Suite101.com: "La Mondo Ne Havas Atendejon" (The world has no waiting room)
  Robert Henderson looks at the reinvigouration of Esperanto by the Net. (1 April 2001)


• Christian Richard: "Why Learn Esperanto?"
  In 2000, Christian Richard presented a two-hour radio program in Esperanto on radio station CHMA, from Mount Allison University, in the town of Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. He has moved on from the university, and the broadcast no longer occurs. Fortunately, we were able to capture part of it for posterity.

In this segment, Christian discusses what Esperanto is, and the unexpected richness of the social life he found through it.

Listen: RealAudio.16 minutes, 47 seconds
Download: RealAudio 2 MB; MP3 2.2 MB; Ogg Vorbis 4 MB

• CBC This Morning: "Esperanto: The Language of the Internet?"
  Shelagh Rogers of the CBC interviews Mark Fettes, Wally du Temple and Christian Richard. (22 February 2001)

  Official CBC archive listing.

• The Guardian (UK): "A beginners guide to Esperanto"
  A UK newspaper explores Esperanto in rural England. An excellent introduction. (12 July 2003)


• The Globe and Mail (Canada): "You smell like a crocodile"
  An exploration of Esperanto, on the occasion of the World Congress in Goteborg. From a Canadian newspaper (2 August 2003). Unfortunately, this is now part of the newspaper's pay-access archive.


• Newsweek International: "Speaking Up for Esperanto"
  Newsweek looked at the rising fortunes of Esperanto, on the occaision of the World Congress in Goteborg. From the International edition of Newsweek, not sold in North America (11 August 2003). Unfortunately, this article seems not to be online.

• Melissa Kent: Montreal Stories (on CBC Radio One, "Daybreak Montreal")
  Melissa Kent interviews speakers of Esperanto in Montreal: Normand Fleury, Mira Metz-Fleury, and Matthew McLaughlin. They discuss the origins of the language, what it's like to grow up in an Esperanto-speaking household, and look at the future of the language.

26 June 2006. Official CBC page for the Daybreak program's columnists, as of June 29, 2006. This link will probably change.

• Michael Enright interviews Humphrey Tonkin (on CBC Radio One, "Sunday Edition")
  Michael Enright interviews Humphrey Tonkin, professor emeritus of Humanities at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA, in this brilliant and wide-ranging Sunday-morning interview.

18 June 2006. Official CBC archive listing.

• New!
  The Walrus: "Tongues of the World, Unite!"
  Alison Gillmor reports on the history, life and culture of Esperanto, in this warm and favourable article. September 2006.

Links

• The site of the Canadian Esperanto Asociation, http://esperanto.ca/. Many Esperanto links of interest to Canadians can be found there.
• The worldwide Universal Esperanto Asociation, http://www.uea.org/.
• Ĝangalo (Jungle): an excellent news site and portal, http://www.gxangalo.com/. In Esperanto. Suda Kruco (Southern Cross) is now part of Ĝangalo.
• PMEG: the Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko (Comprehensive Handbook of Esperanto Grammar). For those who want to know how the language ticks. In Esperanto.
• Sonja's online English-to-Esperanto dictionary.
• Internacia Televido: the first television channel all in Esperanto. Distributed across the net from Brazil.
• Radio Verda: podcasting in Esperanto from Vancouver.
• Skrablo: a crossword game in Esperanto. Play against the computer or against an online opponent.
• A downloadable course for learning Esperanto! From Brazil.
  Approx. 10 MB; for Windows 95 (and later) only.
• The famous search engine Google works in Esperanto!
• The weather in Toronto, from Weather Underground (thanks Lunjo!)
• Club members: Clayton Smith, Scott Robert Dawson, Sonja Elen Kisa, Ken Price ...

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