Easy by design
Sixteen rules, phonetic letters, and endings you can see. No irregular verbs hiding in a footnote.
Esperanto · 1887 · 16 rules
Learn Esperanto free, starting today.
Twenty-four short lessons, the 28-letter alphabet, the 16 rules, and a dictionary you can search in English or Esperanto. No login. Open lesson 1 and read aloud.
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Why learn Esperanto?
A bridge, not a flag
Nobody’s mother tongue is asked to step aside. Esperanto sits beside your language as a shared second step.
Speak on day one
Saluton. Mi lernas Esperanton. That is already a full, correct sentence. The next one is only a new word away.
How this course works
Hear the alphabet once, then Lesson 1. Each lesson recycles yesterday’s words and adds one tool. The 16 rules, correlatives, and word-building sit beside the course. For the language’s story — Zamenhof, 1887, the name “one who hopes” — open What is Esperanto?
Why is Esperanto easy to learn?
One letter, one sound. Nouns end in -o, adjectives in -a, adverbs in -e. Verbs do not change for “I” or “they.” There is no grammatical gender to memorize, and the 16 rules do not fight each other with exceptions. Many learners reach a first conversation in a weekend.
People search for these answers
What is Esperanto?
Meaning, history, and how the language works.
Who speaks it?
Where it is spoken, how many people, native speakers.
Dictionary & sentences
Look up a word, then read a full sentence to see endings and word order.
Esperanto books
Unua Libro, the Fundamento, stories, and translations.
Meet speakers now
UEA, Pasporta Servo, and local meetings — you do not wait until lesson 24.
A sentence in Esperanto
Saluton, la mondo. Hello, world.
Mi lernas Esperanton. I am learning Esperanto.
Mi estas el Londono. I am from London.
Kion tio signifas? What does that mean?
Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton? Do you speak Esperanto?
Learn Esperanto
01 Next → 02 Next → 03 Next → 04 Next → 05 Next →
Hear the letters
Twenty-eight sounds. Read them once, then read them aloud.
Twenty-four graded lessons
Dialogues, recycled words, and a typing drill in every lesson. Read aloud; do not translate in your head first.
The 16 rules
Nouns, verbs, the accusative -n. One short page next to the course.
Learn correlatives
Forty-five correlatives from five starts and nine endings. kiu, kio, kie, and the rest click into one grid.
Build new words
mal- flips meaning. -ej- is a place, -il- a tool, -ist- a trade. malsanulejo is hospital, built in pieces.