Esperantilo

Esperantilo is a text editor with particular Esperanto functions, spell and grammar checking and machine translation.  It is available free of charge at http://www.esperantilo.org/index_en.html.  The site also provides Esperantilo as a grammar checker packaged as an OpenOffice Extension.

Key Features

1. It contains complex customizable machine translation for a Polish, German and English languages. It is complex translation software.
2. it supports also semi-automatic translation.
3. It can collaborate with professional translation systems by XLIFF and TMX formats.
4. It can translate many Esperanto character encoding (ĝ gx gh ^g g^ html).
5. It makes easy to write Esperanto hat letters with "x"-replacement.
6. It can convert many files automatically.
7. It is full utf-8 editor and is suitable for editing multilingual texts.
8. It enables editing of many files in one program.
9. It contains "undo" and "redo" functions.
10. It offers spell checking.
11. It contains grammar checker
12. It contains syntax analyzer
13. It contains a multilingual dictionary with an edit mode

See below video example of how to use the tool (in Esperanto)

Great resource for Esperanto phrases

The Tatoeba Project now references more than 103,000 phrases in Esperanto.  You can contribute to its growth by adding, translating, adopting, improving, and discussing sentences as well.  This is another wonderful resource for Esperantujo.  The entire interface is also available in Esperanto.

The graph below shows that, as of October 5 2011, Esperanto is the third most popular language on this site, after English and Japanese.  You can help further raise EO's visibility by contributing your translations to this site.

Learn how to make your own study materials with Quizlet

This short video illustrates the capabilities of Quizlet.com.  It has proven to be a very useful tool in preparing interactive flashcards that can be shared with others and used on the PC as well as mobile devices.  A great way to memorize anything on the go.  Oh...and it's free!

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Bonega retvortaro!

This online dictionary enables you to automatically search up to seven EO/EN dictionaries and provides context-sensitive Wikipedia results when applicable.  This is a must have for the Esperanto student or translator.

See: http://kono.be/vivo/

Recommended Book

Esperanto Learning and Using the International Language 

by David Richardson. ISBN 0939785064.

This introductory textbook begins with an extensive English-language introduction, covering the need for an international language, an overview of Esperanto's history, and the international Esperanto community. A series of brief lessons with exercises follows, concentrating on practical communication and vocabulary. The highlight of the book is a graded reader, which includes history, letters, stories, and poetry (both translated from English and drawn from original Esperanto literature) that gradually introduce more advanced usage and additional vocabulary. The book concludes with an abridged Esperanto-to-English dictionary.  See readers' reviews.