MARLBOROUGH'S SELF-TAUGHT SERIES

Esperanto Self-Taught
WITH
PHONETIC PRONUNCIATION.
BY
WILLIAM W. MANN.
(Member of the British Esperanto Association.)

[ST Series--Trade Mark Registered]

THIRD EDITION

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

London:
E. MARLBOROUGH & CO., LTD., 51 Old Bailey, E.C. 4

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

PREFACE.

The object of this volume is two-fold. It supplies very full andcomprehensive vocabularies of the words required by thetourist or traveller, visitor or resident abroad, health or pleasureseeker, and professional or business man, together with a largenumber of conversational sentences of a typical and practicalcharacter. The words and phrases are classified according tosubject, and the phonetic pronunciation of every word is addedin accordance with Marlborough's simple and popular system ofphonetics.

With the aid of this book anyone may undertake a trip to aforeign land, even if he know nothing of the language of thecountry he is going to, and, if he will put himself beforehand incommunication with Esperantists in the various places he intendsto visit, he will find them ready to help him in many ways, andhis stay abroad will thus be made much more entertaining andinstructive than if he had spent his time in the conventionalmanner of the ordinary tourist. A further great advantage of thisinternational language is, that it opens up to the traveller, notmerely one particular country, but the whole of Europe.

The book also aims at affording a practical guide to Esperantofor the student, who will find, in the section on Grammar, all thathe needs to give him full insight into and grasp of the language,enabling him with very little effort to read, write and speakcorrectly.

By joining an Esperanto Group the learner may have frequentopportunity of conversational practice, and he will soon find that itis by no means a difficult matter to become as fluent in theauxiliary language as in his mother-tongue.1

Esperanto is not merely a language for tourists, but alreadypossesses a rich literature of considerable extent, the beginningsof that "Weltlitteratur" foreseen by Goethe; it has a press ofits own representing every country of importance in the world,and is constantly being made use of for professional purposes bydoctors, scientists, teachers, lawyers, soldiers, sailors, merchants,etc., in every quarter of the globe. It is undoubtedly destined, eremany years have passed, to become a very important factor in theprogress of the world.

WILLIAM W. MANN.

London, 1908.

PRINTED AND MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Letchworth: The Garden City Press Ltd.

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CONTENTS.