🏖️ Testing the Waters

Get an idea of what the language looks like, a few facts about it, and the basics of how it works.

Infographics

A Beginner's Guide to Esperanto shows you what a basic conversation looks like, what are the pronouns, verb tenses, and how to say a few basic things like colors, numbers and parts of the body.

Esperanto: The International Language of Hope talks about the number of speakers worldwide, how the language is regular and flexible, what book snippets look like, and the main reasons for learning it.

Esperanto: The World's easiest living language goes through a few basic rules, so you can understand the sentences at the end.

Illustrated word lists

How do I say X in Esperanto?

Food and drink, aquatic animals, vehicles, animals, human body and miscellaneous.

Grammar overviews

A bit more detail on the rules.

Esperanto in four pages: pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and correlatives.

Visual booklet: The sixteen rules of Esperanto.

Short video: Esperanto Grammar in 6 Minutes.

Basic, universal words

You can learn the Esperanto words for about 200 of the most basic and universal concepts across human cultures with the Esperanto Swadesh List.

Common phrases

WikiBooks has a list of basic sentences like "thank you" and "you're welcome".

WikiVoyage has a phrasebook that includes many expressions you need for travel, like "how do I get to X?" or "where is the train station?".

Word Guessing Game

Ba Ba Dum has a very simple game where you are shown an image and have to guess the correct word for it in Esperanto. Entirely free, web-based and mobile-friendly, you click the link and you're already playing.

Game playthrough

World of Warcraft Esperanto Lessons is a youtube playthrough series where the author uses what is happening in the game to explain how that would be said in Esperanto. A fun way of learning a bit of the language.