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PM8213 .C75 1968 10232 Cresswell, John. NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA (SF) PM 8213 .C75 1968 Cresswell^ John. Teach yourself Esperanto #13502 DATE DUE BORROWER'S NAME #13502 'resswellf John* Teach yourself Esperanto / by John 'resswell and John Hartley» 2nd ed« «ondon English Universities PresSf : L968. 205 p. : 111« ; 19 cm. (Teach ''ourself books ) Jifl3502 Keclass $ • • ISBN 0-340-05781-5 PM 8213 C75 1968 — 1« Esperanto SeIf—i nstructi on • I [artley, John, d. 1962. II. Title <_• JUN 93 58543 xNEWCxc 70-44289er93 SAN FR/.NCISCO. CA 94110 (415) 626-1694 Library of New Co!!ege of Cafifornio DUE DATE THE TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS ESPERANTO Uniform withthis volume andinthe same series Teach YourselfAfrikaans Teach YourselfArabic Teach YourselfBengaH Teach YourselfColloquial Arabic Teach YourselfChinese Teach YourselfCzech Teach YourselfDanish Teach YourselfDutch Teach YourselfEnglish for Swahili-speaking People Teach YourselfEnglish Grammar Teach YourselfGood English Teach YourselfFinnish Teach YourselfFrench Teach YourselfEveryday French Teach YourselfFrench Grammar Teach YourselfGerman Teach YourselfGerman Grammar Teach YourselfMore German Teach YourselfGreek Teach YourselfModern Greek Teach YourselfNew Testament Greek Teach YourselfHausa Teach YourselfHebrew Teach YourselfIcelandic Teach YourselfIndonesian Teach YourselfIrish Teach YourselfItalian Teach YourselfJapanese Teach YourselfLatin Teach YourselfLatvian Teach Yourselfto Learn a Language Teach YourselfMalay Teach YourselfMaltese Teach YourselfNorwegian Teach YourselfModern Persian Teach YourselfPolish Teach YourselfPortuguese Teach YourselfRussian Teach YourselfRussian through Reading Teach YourselfSamoan Teach YourselfSerbo-Croat Teach YourselfSpanish Teach YourselfEveryday Spanish Teach YourselfSwahili Teach YourselfSwedish Teach YourselfTurkish Teach YourselfUrdu Teach YourselfWelsh Teach YourselfYoruba TEACH YOURSELF ESPERANTO By JOHN CRESSWELL, Diploma of the British Esperanto Association and JOHN HARTLEY, M.A., Diploma ofthe British Esperanto Association THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES PRESS LTD ST. PAUL'S HOUSE, WARWICK LANE LONDON,E.C.4 7 FirstPublished . . igsj SecondEdition . . 1968 All Rights Reserved SECOND EDITION © COPYRIGHT 1968 THE ENGLISH UNI\^RSITIES PRESS LTD ThisispublishedintheU.S.A.byDavidMcKay Company Inc., 750 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 1001 SBN 340 05781 5 Printedin Great Britainfor the English Universities Press, Limited f by Elliott Bros. Yeoman Ltd., Liverpool —— —— CONTENTS Page Preface to the Second Edition Introductory Lesson Lesson One - - - - - 15 Spelling and Pronunciation-the Numbers Lesson Two - - - - - 21 — — — Nouns La—Kaj The Pre—sent Tense Correlat—ives —Kiu a—nd Tiu Prefixes an—d Suffixes Ge In Ej La Familio La Domo (Family and House) Lesson Three - - - - 28 — — Adjectives —Personal Pronouns— Contin- Tuioous—TKeinaseasndCTuia——JesMaaind NLea aKimobranod (The Room) Lesson Four— - - —- - 36 Adverbs Subject and Object Kie and Tie—Kiel-and T-iel—E-t—Eg-—La-Urbo (The Town) Lesson Five 42 — — Prepositions—The Indirect Object—The Past Tense —Pronoun-Adjectives —The Future T—ense Kiun,—Kion, Kian Kial andTial -Ul—-Re -Leter-o (A L-etter) Interpolation - - - - 51 Lesson Six — — 54 MovementTo MovementFrom The — The Ending -U —Names—of C—ountries Names of Cities Uj An Pri Via Ferio en Svislando (About Your Holi- day in Switzerland) —— — — ———— Lesson Seven -— -— - - 64 Imperson—al Verbs Oni More—Abou—t Adverbs Days^ Months, etc. Er Veterprognozo (Weather Forecast) Lesson Eight _— > _ > 72 Furt—her U—ses of—-N —First, Second, Third, etc.—Obi On Op —Telling the Time DAa— Kiom and Tiom Kiam and Tiam Radio-Kaj-Telev-ido (-Wireles-s and Television) Lesson Nine — — — 85 Comparison Word-Order Ad Ar Ebl—Ind-—Id—-Notoj-Pri -La Na-ture (Nature Notes) Lesson Ten — 95 The Infi—nitive Prepositio—ns with an Infinitive The Endi—ng -Us Aflfixes —as Independent Words Kies and Ties Pago Por Virinoj (Women's Page) Lesson Eleven - —- —- I—- 106 Th—e Re—flexive Pronoun Sia Ig Ec 1st Ism Datreveno de Einstein (Einstein's Anniversary) Lesson Twelve— - - —- —- 116 PPaarrttiicciippilaels NTouhnes—PerJfue—ctDTeesn—seAjnO—ntIaI Ek Kelkaj Reklamoj (Some Adver- tisements) Lesson Thirteen - - -— - 127 Verbs Preceding t—heir Sub—jects The IntrodAuctoryA"It" Mem Kaj Ka—j . . . . . . , . . . —. u. . , Neku. . . Ne—k ... — JEemn . .F.uJe—nP.a. g. o de F.l.a.nkok.u.p.ojEs(tPrage of Hobbies)