“La plej granda tasko de la orga- niza¢o estas pli ... - Esperanto-USA
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FOTO: ¥ENJA AMIS<br />
Steve Brewer dum <strong>la</strong><br />
prelego pri hajkoj<br />
<strong>estas</strong> <strong>la</strong> <strong>plej</strong> <strong>granda</strong> Ùtatkapitolo<br />
en <strong>la</strong> tuta Usono!<br />
Interese ke <strong>granda</strong> parto <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong><br />
kapitolo <strong>estas</strong>... sub <strong>la</strong> tero –<br />
kaj eb<strong>la</strong>s e¤ vidi parton <strong>de</strong> ßi.<br />
Super <strong>la</strong> kapitolo flugis <strong>la</strong><br />
jam konataj al ni vespertoj.<br />
£ajne usona “maksimumismo”<br />
<strong>estas</strong> e¤ <strong>pli</strong> <strong>granda</strong><br />
en Teksaso – ja ¤io en<br />
An arch smile on<br />
Mr. <strong>Esperanto</strong>’s<br />
stateless face,<br />
“Talk to me<br />
about impossible<br />
dreams, pal...<br />
WWII victory in<br />
1945, man on the moon in 1969, renaissance<br />
in New Orleans in 200x...” He<br />
paused for a moment before rattling<br />
off again, “Hey, just ask Prof. Joe at<br />
Norman Park Senior Center, he’ll dish<br />
out the whole nine yards. Once you’ve<br />
listened to his pitch, you draw your<br />
own conclusion. Okay?”<br />
Having known Joe all my life, I approached<br />
the du<strong>de</strong> one fine afternoon.<br />
Joe showed me a clipping from the San<br />
Diego Union Tribune and I strained my<br />
myopic eyes to make out the blurb.<br />
Norman Park Senior Center offers a<br />
Chinese <strong>la</strong>nguage c<strong>la</strong>ss from 3 to 5 every<br />
Sunday. Learn the Chinese <strong>la</strong>nguage<br />
through a rare method of mastering the<br />
<strong>Esperanto</strong> alphabet to make pronouncing<br />
easier. The c<strong>la</strong>ss will p<strong>la</strong>y Lingeon,<br />
La teksto sube diras: “Hajko.<br />
La strangajn vortojn<br />
sur <strong>la</strong> b<strong>la</strong>nka tablo<br />
¤u mi komprenu?”<br />
FOTO: JIM HENRY<br />
Teksaso Ùajnas <strong>granda</strong> –<br />
e¤ tasoj <strong>de</strong> kafo en kafejoj<br />
Ùajnis al mi absolute<br />
enormaj. Ja <strong>la</strong> Ùtato mem<br />
<strong>estas</strong> enorma – <strong>pli</strong> <strong>granda</strong><br />
ol <strong>la</strong> tuta Ukrainio, kiu<br />
cetere <strong>estas</strong> <strong>la</strong> <strong>plej</strong><br />
<strong>granda</strong> <strong>la</strong>ndo en Eªropo,<br />
ne enkalku<strong>la</strong>nte Rusion.<br />
Por <strong>la</strong> <strong>la</strong>sta duontago<br />
kaj <strong>la</strong> fermo <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> kongreso<br />
restis re<strong>la</strong>tive malmultaj<br />
homoj. La poemo<br />
<strong>de</strong> Laªlum pri Aªstino<br />
kaj <strong>la</strong> kongreso (ßin<br />
<strong>la</strong>ªtlegis Russ Williams,<br />
¤ar <strong>la</strong> aªtoro ne povis<br />
resti por <strong>la</strong> fermo) kortuÙis<br />
¤iujn ¤eestantojn,<br />
kaj mi sincere esperas ke<br />
ELNA-kongreso iam<br />
baldaª <strong>de</strong>nove okazos en<br />
Teksaso – Ùajne, mi ¤iam<br />
ser¤os kialon viziti <strong>la</strong><br />
£taton <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> So<strong>la</strong> Stelo<br />
<strong>de</strong>nove!<br />
an algorithm game to learn phrases.<br />
Free.<br />
Location: 270 F Street, Chu<strong>la</strong> Vista.<br />
“Three new stu<strong>de</strong>nts showed up — one<br />
on August 28, and two on September<br />
11.”<br />
“That’s great. How are they doing?”<br />
“Well, you and I both know the old<br />
Chinese saying about “melons ain’t<br />
balls”— never perfectly spherical. The<br />
first stu<strong>de</strong>nt never came back, but the<br />
other two have. They wanted to learn<br />
some Chinese before they take off for a<br />
long vacation in China on September<br />
21.” Flipping my crazy beads on my<br />
Ching Dynasty abacus that I brought<br />
from China in 1947, “You mean they<br />
only atten<strong>de</strong>d two c<strong>la</strong>sses and expect to<br />
win gold in China?”<br />
“No, but one of them left me a note<br />
saying I found the game (Lingeon) to be<br />
fun as well as going a long way in remembering<br />
how to say the letters — also<br />
remembering the phrases. I’m looking<br />
forward to getting the game in other <strong>la</strong>nguages.”<br />
2005/2, 3, 4<br />
ELNA-kongreso<br />
Mi kore dankas ¤iujn <strong>orga</strong>nizantojn pro <strong>la</strong><br />
bonega <strong>orga</strong>nizado kaj kreado <strong>de</strong> unika<br />
etoso dum <strong>la</strong> kongreso!<br />
¥enja Amis<br />
<strong>Esperanto</strong> Captures 1.3 Billion Gold Medals In 2008<br />
FOTO: ¥ENJA AMIS<br />
“Talking about other <strong>la</strong>nguages, why<br />
<strong>Esperanto</strong>?” I relented.<br />
“Two reasons: ELNA respon<strong>de</strong>d to my<br />
game with fireworks from day one, and I<br />
reacted to the <strong>Esperanto</strong> alphabet with<br />
disbelief.”<br />
As it turned out, <strong>Esperanto</strong> vowels and<br />
circumflexed consonants such as Ã, Ï,<br />
°, ¥ and £ sound Chinese. To top it off,<br />
their regu<strong>la</strong>r C is a <strong>de</strong>ad-ringer; not to<br />
mention that funny U that waves into the<br />
most important word in any <strong>la</strong>nguage.<br />
“I’ve got a 12-year-old <strong>la</strong>ss from<br />
Tijuana — I’ll call her Marta — who<br />
talks like Zhang Ziyi (China’s female<br />
Bruce Lee).” True, she’s been with me<br />
since June.” Joe beamed with hubris.<br />
Despite his exuberance, I savor his favorite<br />
dish with a grain of salt. On the<br />
other hand, who had dreamed about victory<br />
in WWII, man on the moon, New<br />
Orleans renaissance?<br />
George K. Wu<br />
Chu<strong>la</strong> Vista, California<br />
Ãe <strong>la</strong> kinejo A<strong>la</strong>mo,<br />
post <strong>la</strong> filmo Incubus<br />
sperantoU S 17