Friday, July 26, is World Esperanto Day. Today on KUOW Presents, producer Roman Mars told us about the history of the invented language Esperanto. Esperanto's a language born out of the dream that if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and miscommunication.

A hundred years ago, a Polish physician created a language that anyone could learn easily. The hope was to bring the world closer together. Today... Esperanto Is Not Dead: Can The Universal Language ...

SEQUIM — A Whidbey Island woman fluent in Esperanto — an artificial language constructed to allow speakers of different native tongues to communicate fluidly — will discuss how it works during a free ...

The history of Esperanto in China was for long periods closely linked with anarchism. This article surveys the connection in the years up to 1920, and sets out to show which groups used which ...

Anarchists have been at the forefront ofthe international workers’ Esperanto movement practicallyfrom day one. The Anarchist Federation, rightly, has always taken its international work seriously. Our ...

Languages are typically an essential means of identity, but also pose an unresolved dilemma: a paradox in which languages provide the opportunity to communicate, but only work within a given location ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a hybrid lecture titled “Esperanto: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the International ...

In his Tucson, Ariz., backyard, 10-year-old Linken Kay throws a ball for his dog, Harley. The dog speaks only English. But Linken was raised speaking another language. "Li ŝatas salti en la naĝejo por ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...