USE OF ESPERANTO

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6558, 27 August 1948, Page 8

USE OF ESPERANTO

EDUCATIONISTS TAKING INTEREST IN SUBJECT

The following item will be of interest to members of the recently formed Te Awamutu Esperanto Society:— There was a truly international atmosphere at the recent monthly meeting of the Esperanto Rondo, people representative of many different countries participating. Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Scotland were all represented, and, Esperanto is the only language permitted in this advanced club, all business discussions, lectures, and conversation were conducted in Esperanto. Mr E. G. Bernfeld gave an interesting talk on language teaching, and explained the difficulties which each nationality presented to the compiler of any international language, and how Esperanto alone had succeeded in overcoming these difficulties. General discussion followed, in which all present participated.

“Educationists all over the world are taking an interest in the fact that one international language besides their own mother tongue is all that should be necessary for anybody to travel the world without language difficulty,” said Mr Nelson Hill, president of the Wellington Esperanto Club, at its last meeting. “Esperanto flourishes in some countries, while others, notably English-speaking countries, are slower to accept Esperanto as the natural and logical language to be taught in schools. That difficulty is slowly being overcome, but it is a long and arduous process.”