Esperanto's founder gave it the name because the word's own Latin roots mean "one who hopes." Speakers of Esperanto are still hoping that it will become the world's true lingua franca. "I think you ...

Pardonu min…Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?” is Esperanto for “Excuse me, do you speak Esperanto?” While most people will not understand this phrase, the language was created to be a universal tongue. In ...

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An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images The promise of peace through a shared language has not yet ...

Take a tour of New York City in Esperanto, the language invented by L.L. Zamenhof in the late 19th century to promote world peace. The key to a free night’s stay in Jim Medrano’s New York City ...

On a recent Friday evening, the Esperanto Society of New York convened in a rowhouse on Manhattan’s East 35th Street. The upper floors of the building seemed to house a bilingual preschool, going by ...

EVERY one to-day has heard of Esperanto, the proposed universal language. But how many know more than the name ? A recent and very successful congress of Esperantists, at Boulogne, in France, has ...

Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the ...

The international language Esperanto is an auxiliary language that was conceived and developed for international communication. Of around 1,000 known plans for auxiliary languages, Esperanto alone has ...

In their Tuscon home, Linken and Greg Kay have shelves full of books in Esperanto, including these picture books. In his Tucson, Ariz., backyard, 10-year-old Linken Kay throws a ball for his dog, ...