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LingoBear creates short Esperanto passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Constructed international auxiliary language created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, 28-letter Latin alphabet, fully regular grammar with only 16 rules.

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Every word in your Esperanto reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help as you build vocabulary through Esperanto's predictable word formation.

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Esperanto reading passage — from Pasporta Servo travel to Esperanto literature.

What is Esperanto and how many people speak it?

Esperanto is a planned international auxiliary language published in 1887 by Polish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto ('one who hopes'). Estimates of the speaker community range from a few hundred thousand to two million worldwide, plus around 1,000 native speakers (denaskuloj) who grew up bilingual in it.

Why is Esperanto considered easy to learn?

Esperanto's grammar fits on a single page: 16 base rules, no irregular verbs, no grammatical gender, and a transparent word-building system using affixes (mal- for opposites, -et- for diminutive, -eg- for augmentative, -in- for female). Words have one stress, always on the second-to-last syllable, and spelling is fully phonemic with 28 letters.