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 ...

In his Tucson, Ariz., backyard, 10-year-old Linken Kay throws a ball for his dog, Harley. The dog speaks only English. But Linken was raised speaking another language. "Li ŝatas salti en la naĝejo por ...

For a language meant to serve as a means of universal communication, Esperanto is frequently—and ironically—misunderstood. The most popular constructed language in the world was created in 1887 by L.L ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Malta Esperanto-Society has published the third edition of L-Esperanto, written by Carmel Mallia and divided into 11 lessons with a vocabulary from Maltese into Esperanto and vice versa. Those who ...

A meeting of the Soviet Republics’ Esperanto Union, held in Moscow in 1931 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then Prussian, then ...