LEARN ESPERANTO

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 5

LEARN ESPERANTO

Lesson 3 of our Esperanto course, which, as most readers are aware, is being conducted in conjunction’ with QY¥A, is presented below. ve During the instructional transtiission from the station, students should have a copy of the printed lesson at hand. This point is ugain stressed in order that the broadcast lesson may be more readily followed and understood, Inquiries relative to Esperanto may be made to ‘‘The Iisperanto Instructor," N.Z. Broudcasting Co., Ltd., Wellington, or care of "Radio Record.", A stamped addressed ‘envelope must accompany each inquiry, otherwise a ré& ply cannot be guaranteed LESSON Ifill, (‘To be broadcast from 2¥A on August 18, from 7.89 to 7.54 p.m.) The Adjective. Ail ADJECTIVES (words whiclr qual. ify or describe nouns) end in A, They agree with their noun in number and case, La lertA amatoro desegnis novan cirkviton. ‘The clever amateur design ed a new circuit, Grandaj stacioj sendas longajN ondojn, Large stations transmit long waves. vee Byers Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives, The comparative of EQUALITY is expressed by TIEL (as, so); KIEL..(as),¢ mi estas TIEL forta, KIEL vi.. I am as strong as you. The comparative of SUPERIORITY by PLI (more)... + OL (than): mi estas PLI forta OL vi, I aim stronger than you. The comparative of INFERIORITY, by MALPLI (less)... . OL (than): mi estas MAL« PLI forta OL vi, I am weaker {less strong) than vou. The SUPERLATIVE of SUPERIORITY by PLEJ*(anost)... EL (out of, of) : mi estas ta PLEJ forta EL c'inj. I am the strongest (most strong) of all. The SUPERLATIVE of INFERIORITY, by MALPLEJ (least). . .. EL (out of, of): mi estas fa MALPLEJ forta EL c’inj. I am the weakest (least strong) of all. The SUPERLATIVE ABSOLUTE by TRE (very): mi estas TRE forta. I am very, strong. Vocabulary. — bela--beautiful, homo--man, lide | blanka--wvhite man being blua-blae. hundo-dog hona-good infano-child fidela-faithiful Johano-Joln forta-strong lakto-inilix fres’a-fresh mano-hand juna-young pura-pure, clea matura--ripe pano-bread nova-new papero-paper nutra-nutritiosas tablo-table neg’o-snow vino-wine ric'a-rich onklo-uncle sana--well, healtliy pli-more , cielo-skv heaven ol-than festo -lolidav sed--but fraunlino-maiden tre-very lady, miss ne-tio, not sur-on, upoit Translate ¢nd read aloud: La patro estas sana. Infano ne estas matura homo. La c’ielo estas blwa. Leono estas forta. La patro estas bona. Le mano de Johano estas pura, Papern estas blanka. La papero estas tre blanka, sed la neg’o estas pit bianka. Lakto estas pli nutra af vino. La onklo estas pli ric'a olf fa frate, La hundo estas fidea. La libre estas nova,