Esperanto

Here is my "verda mondo" (last updated: Nov/02/2007)
- In Esperanto, "verda" means "(adj.) green" and "(n.) mondo" corresponds to "world". The color "green" symbolizes "peace/equality" in Esperanto (or elsewhere too). So, "verda mondo" can mean " peaceful world".

Esperanto

• Lingva Prismo ('the prism of languages'): a multilingual website about linguistic diversity, with facts about languages and alphabets, stories about linguistic and cultural equality, and strategies for interlingualism. (in Esperanto and also in other languages)
• Esperanto USA
• Esperanto in Pittsburgh
• Learning is free! Lernu! Esperanto
• Esperanto news and events
  • Recent meeting with Esperanto (interview and discussions) on New York Public Radio (WNYC: 09/27/2007)interview title: "Esperanto: the universal language" - Dr. Humphrey Tonkin, President Emeritus at the University of Hartford and past president of the Universal Esperanto Association, and Karina Kehlet-Lins, a second-generation native speaker, join Leonard to explain how Esperanto works, how it’s being used today, why speakers have adopted it, what the community is like, and even speak a bit of the language.

  
  Esperanto was invented in 1887 by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof. It has been evolving ever since and spoken by much more than 1 milion of Esperanto speakers around the world. The number of speakers is supposedly estimated from the number of dictionaries that have been sold/distributed. (Approximately 1,000 native Esperanto speakers known: "Native" means that Esperanto is one of their 1st languages)

  There is no Esperanto monolingual speaker and mi pensas (I think)... it shouldn't happen either. Since Jamenhof's goal of inventing Esperanto was to provide an easy, flexible and auxiliary language that can serve as an international communication tool, no power shouldn't place one to an environment that deprives a mother tongue from him or she other than by their freedom of choice. In other words, Esperanto pursues ideally two languages for everyone: one as a native tongue and the other one as an auxiliary tool to communicate worldwide.

  By learning Esperanto yourself, you are sharing the responsibilities that are supposed to be shared by "human beings" to who a linguistic tool of communication is indispensable forever. Also by sharing the idea of having a neutral language, we are able to rejoice communication itself instead of being devoted ourselves in acquiring the tool itself.

  "Human beings are unique not because they are able to possess or invent tools but because they use tools to access a bigger world." This is how I understand people as "Homo sapiens" from "Homo faber".

  Esperanto estas la lingvo por ni - "Esperanto is a language for (all of) us"