La Unua Libro
(including La
Fundamento) is the
first document, which described the language "Esperanto", written by
Zamenhof.
That document was edited on July 26, 1887 in Russian, then later in French, English, German and Polish.
It was directed to educated people, which had a good knowledge of the
grammar of their own language, and maybe, of one or more languages - as
it should be your case.
Based on this document, the language spread out.
Even if Esperanto considerably evolved from then, this document is
undoubtedly still authoritative about the language.
"La Fundamento" consists of three parts
In this course, you will get acquainted with the Grammar.
Don't attempt to understand every detail of it right away: it's the
purpose of the Exercises, to enable you to better understand the
somewhat sketchy rules.
You should be capable of finding out
the grammar rules by yourself, based
on the Exercises. This is the most natural
way to learn a language. If
you cannot guess a rule, just leave a note to yourself and come back to
it a few days later.
After some time, depending on your diligence, your brain will become
accustomed to the subtulties of the language, and you will be able to
attack more difficult matters.
You might find it useful to dowload The Esperanto Teacher
(by Helen Fryerd) and print it.
Proceed with Lesson
1