Friday, April 25, 2008
Esperanto Resources
Kool Update: I just received an email from i-espero.info, and guess what, the DVD is back! =) It's available again on their website for download, and this time it's 1 self-extracting package [making lifes easeir]. They also have some other neat collections to download, including an Esperanto resource CD and a very nice book collection. They torrents are also seeded again, so do check them out: Esperanto CD [Lingua Incognita] , Esperanto Books .A while ago, while digging for useful resources to help me improve my Esperanto skills, I came across i-espero.info. It's a very useful website containing all sorts of interesting articles and resources in Esperanto. One of the very cool items I found on their website was this Esperanto Elektronike DVD, which is a collection of cources, vidoes, esperanto wiki, books, music, and everything you might ever need for practicing Esperanto. They were offering the DVD content as free download which was fantastic. Now the problem is that they no longer have the option of downloading the package from their website, mainly because of the huge size of it I would guess. They are distributing the package now through torrents, but the problem is that this torrent is never really seeded nowadays. The other problem is that although the package is not thaaaaaaat huge [something more than 2GBs], but the number of files in it is completely insane. There are too many small information pages and such included. The total number of files is something more than a million. So even if somebody does download it, it's a pain to unzip and manage on one's hard drive. Since the content of the DVD is pretty much organized in some sort of an offline website, I figured it would be better for everyone, including myself and anyone else who might want to use this resources but not really be able or willing to download and manage them, if I just put the whole thing online. So now if you go to Esperanto.Aasemoon.com, you can access the unzipped version of the package as a sort of a website. Pain to upload it this way [as I couldn't unzip 7z on my host, and re-zipping was out of the question], but now it's pretty simple to use. So if you're into learning Esperanto, check it out! =)
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10 Commentz:
Nice! I wonder why this wasn't already available as a website.
Wow that thing's so big! I don't even know how you managed to put it online!
Way to go!
Ok I guess you just did those guys a huge favor.
Goood job :-)
By the way, we are online again :
http://i-espero.info/elsutaro/esperanto-elektronike-dvd
It's now a self-extracting archive with an original ISO image inside, so you can mount or burn it without unzipping about 225000 files :-)
zzzemfira89 (i-espero.info teamo)
zzzemfira89, thanks a whole bunch for the news! =)
Cool stuff. Now I really really need to save some time and look into this, cause curiosity is killing me. :)
A huge (740 page) “Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto 1887-2007" by British author Geoffrey Sutton is about to be published by a New York publishing company called Mondial.
According to the blurb, “This outstanding work of scholarly reference appears in English for the first time. No other such extensive descriptive work is available on this global cultural phenomenon. Esperanto is the only planned international
language to have become the vernacular and literary medium of a widespread
speech community. This work charts the evolution of its original literature from
its humble beginnings in 1887 to its worldwide use in every literary genre in the present day. The work is a revelation for students of comparative and world literature.
The Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto contains:
• preface by Dr. Humphrey Tonkin, Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Hartford, Connecticut
• general introduction to Esperanto literature, its history, evolution and modern
development
• individual introductions to the five periods of the literature
• over 300 individual articles on the most important writers and their work in
chronological order, with biographies and critique
• sample literary texts from some of the best original authors
• an introduction to the language itself, its linguistic structure and creative capabilities, including Esperanto from the Viewpoint of a Writer by Claude Piron
• extensive bibliographies and index
Oh wow! Something tells me that I really should get a hold of this encyclopaedia when it's published. Sounds extremely interesting.
Hi everyone.
Last year, one Polish city - Bialystok - financed an interesting CD about Esperanto. It has been available with some magazines (it's free), but I guess it's difficult for anyone outside Poland to find it.
The CD is in form of a flash interactive city with quite a lot of things. Books, magazines, films, music, crosswords and other games. Everything is in Esperanto (and Polish). If you want it, come and visit us :-)
http://i-espero.info/elsutaro/esperanto-bialystok-cd
zzzemfira89 (i-espero.info teamo)
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