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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

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