ISSN 1084-9831 Esperantic Studies Foundation: Annual Report 2003

SUMMARY integration of its educational assets. The site was formally Number 15 presented at the CALICO and EuroCALL conferences in Winter 2003/04 In 2003, ESF's impact on the field of interlingual studies Ottawa, Canada and Limerick, Ireland and received and the teaching and learning of Esperanto grew favorable reviews from the expert public at these events. appreciably. The Foundation was active in lending The 3rd phase of Lernu’s development was recently In This Issue guidance and/or financial support to a diverse range of approved by the ESF Board of Directors. This phase will projects. Noteworthy projects for 2003 included the focus on improving the end-user experience, adding new development of innovative websites to support different Annual Report ..…………...1 learning content and options, and redesigning the website forms of interlingual learning and teaching; a pilot Haitao Liu .…...….…….…..1 architecture to accommodate a truly global audience of Events …....…..…….… 2 electronic corpus of two million words of Esperanto texts; tens or hundreds of thousands of registered users. Publications ….…………...3 feasibility studies related to intercultural learning and to Links ….…………………...4 the maintenance of accessible interlinguistic archives and edukado.net (www.edukado.net) libraries; and a comprehensive re-design and update of the The teaching support site "edukado.net", also a result of foundation’s website and online publication offerings. ESF's initiative, increased both its range of materials and Newsletter of the Overall, ESF was very successful in meeting its goals for its community of users over the course of the year. It now Esperantic Studies the year. We look forward to setting an equally ambitious reviews over 160 published textbooks and other teaching Foundation and diverse agenda for 2004. Already, work is progressing materials, and offers over 200 exercises, games, tests and

Incorporated in on a number of interesting and exciting projects. other classroom materials formerly unavailable to Washington, DC, USA Esperanto teachers. For 2004, plans have been made to PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES prepare the site to accommodate an increasing user base, W: www.esperantic.org to continue with the review and integration of new E: [email protected] EDUCATION materials, and to develop tools to encourage greater

Contact c/o the office of the lernu! (www.lernu.net) interactivity amongst its user population. The edukado.net Executive Director (below) team will also seek to increase Asian usage of the site at The free, web-based learning environment "lernu!", whose development was initiated by ESF, came online in the 2004 in Beijing, China. Board of Directors December 2002, and by December 2003 had attracted Lingva Prismo (www.lingvo.info) Humphrey Tonkin 4,440 registered users, while extending the range of Lingva Prismo is an introductory-level website on University of Hartford courses, support tools, and other materials multilingualism. The chief purpose of the site is to Jonathan Pool available. "Lernu" was profiled in Issue 14 of our introduce viewers to the complexities of the world Centerplex Esperantic Studies newsletter. Essentially, it is a multi- language situation and the variety of ways peoples of the faceted and multi-lingual web-based platform designed to David Jordan world undertake to manage or cope with these issues. teach Esperanto to the uninitiated as well as intermediate UC San Diego Interlingual Education Network Registered Users 4440 Grant Goodall In November 2003, ESF convened a meeting of educators UC San Diego # of User Logins 3737 from the global Esperanto community to discuss new User Levels educational initiatives for 2004. ESF remains committed Ian Richmond First Time 2062 to playing a proactive role in encouraging dialogue Université Sainte-Anne Basic 1307 amongst Esperanto educators around the globe. Intermediate 371 Mark Fettes Continued over… Simon Fraser University Advanced 179

*as of December, 2003 Interviews With Interlinguists: Administration level speakers. The site is unique for its engaging, Professor Haitao Liu, Beijing, China Jason M. Clark interactive, multimedia courses; its worldwide, “live” Editor/Executive Assistant virtual group lessons and for matching students with The Chinese interlinguist Haitao Liu has, for more than a [email protected] st nd rd decade inside and outside of China, published a Course & Level 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module considerable amount on interlinguistics and the scientific Executive Director Ana Pana (1) 1349 549 180 treatment of Esperanto (see www.liuhaitao.net/eniro.html). (Research & Grants) Ana renkontas (2) 143 75 37 Mark Fettes, Ph.D. Jen nia IJK (3) 478 173 84 He has edited (with Sabine Fiedler) many books on Gerda Malaperis! (4) 501 95 32 interlinguistics and he is a member of the editorial Faculty of Education * Completion rates for all courses committee of the journal Esperantologio – Esperanto Simon Fraser University Studies. In this issue, we present excerpts from an personal tutors. It also functions as a gateway to a global, 8888 University Way interview published in Issue 42 of the Esperanto journal online Esperanto community. Lernu’s evolution for 2003 Burnaby, B.C. IpI. This interview is translated from the original Canada V5A 1S6 focused primarily on the continued development and Esperanto by J. M. Clark. [email protected] Continued over…

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September 19 – 21, 2003 Interkulturo (www.interkulturo.net) from July 5 - 23. A special seminar for Esperanto Languages and Cultures in the Interkulturo was initially conceived to support teachers featuring the most modern instructional 21st Century: Problems and intercultural learning among classrooms in different methods in teaching languages will be offered. Perspectives countries and continents using Esperanto as a bridge Individuals interested in learning more about NASK Where: Republic of Dagestan, language. In its initial phase, the project established or enrolling for the 2004 session are invited to visit Russia. Organized by the Moskva 97 classes in 28 countries around the world and has the NASK website. Helsinka Grupo, Rusia Esperantista brought together more than 2000 students between Unio and the Rakurs organization. the ages of 4 and 18. In 2003, ESF supported the Berkeley Student Program piloting of a new phase of the program, involving ESF completed its fifth year of support for the October 02 – 04, 2003 the redesign of its web-based “virtual school” student-taught Esperanto course at the University of International Conference On environment and its expansion into less formal California at Berkeley. This year marked the Language In The Era of educational settings. The project was presented at graduation of one of its original teachers: Stelet Globalization international conferences on intercultural learning in Mina Kim. She has been replaced by another Where: Baruch College (CUNY), Finland and Italy and has received support from a Berkeley student: Josh Brandt-Young. ESF support New York, NY, USA. For more provides funds for teaching materials as well as a information see: www.linguistlist.org/ variety of organizations including the Council of Europe and European Commission as well as ESF. modest scholarship for the teachers. December 2003

th Summer Esperanto Institute (NASK) Interlinguistics Certificate Program 10 Amsterdam Interlinguistic (www.esperanto.org/nask) ESF continued to provide scholarship support for Symposium th students enrolled in the Interlinguistics certificate Where: University of Amsterdam The 34 North America Summer Esperanto Institute For more information contact Wim (NASK) was held in July at the School for program at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Awardees come from Russia, Germany, Jansen ([email protected]). International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont. This year’s instructors included Paul Lithuania, France and Iran. March 21 – 27, 2004 Gubbins (UK), Lee Miller (USA) and S. Stemec INTERLINGUISTIC RESEARCH Pan-American Esperanto (CR). The NASK curriculum features a three level Congress program of study which emphasizes the active use of Amsterdam Symposium & Meetings Where: Havana, Cuba Esperanto in intercultural communication, and the In 2003, ESF provided funding for the second For information see: creative application of the language in literature, interlinguistics colloquium at the University of www.gratisweb.com/diaznorberto/aatekstoj/bul teno6take.htm theatre and song. The 2004 Institute will be held Amsterdam, and for international meetings in

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Language and the Future of

Europe: Ideologies, Policies and

Haitao Liu con’t many perspectives. I believe that interlinguists must Practices Where: Southampton, England. For respond to all questions about interlinguistic DB: How did you come to interlinguistics, and more information see: communication, not just those about interpersonal www.lang.soton.ac.uk/lipp/ when did it become a major interest for you? issues, but also about communication between people and computers. I try to investigate the roots HTL: I became interested in languages around 1980. Research News of interlinguistics in many sciences and explore the At that time, I was studying information science in significance of interlinguistics for other sciences. I university. In China, it is very difficult to change Esperanto Corpus Available can read documentation in Esperanto, English, one’s specialization as one would like; therefore, I Online To Researchers German, French, Russian and in other planned completed my program in information science in languages. Unfortunately, I have only a passive ESF, together with Bertilo 1983. I began studying Esperanto in 1982 around the command of these languages. Usually, if the Wennergren, are pleased to same time that I became acquainted with announce the online posting of a intended audience is Chinese, I will write in interlinguistics. I have studied the problems of research corpus for Esperanto. In Chinese. For most other readers, I ordinarily use interlinguistics systematically since 1985. As I this first phase of development, a Esperanto. I also write in English, if requested by an understand it, interlinguistics is the science of corpus of approximately 2 million editor on the basis that the study would be of communication across language barriers and one can words has been produced, interest to specialists outside of the Esperanto including the major part of study this from a variety of viewpoints. Zamenhof's work and a selection of community. These are a few of the issues that I DB: At present, it seems to me that you are the have dealt with: fundamental questions of literary and journalistic texts. Plans interlinguistics and planned languages; are also presently underway to most active interlinguist in China. You published expand the corpus significantly and several important studies and many reviews in a interlinguistics and computational linguistics in incorporate a wider range of genres variety of languages, as well as co-edited many many applications; planned languages and and authors. Feedback from books. On what subjects have you written and in terminology; planned languages and the structure of interested individuals is welcome. what languages? Chinese language; interlinguistics and intercultural communication; interlinguistics and cybernetics; To access the corpus, go to: HTL: Thank you. It is my opinion that www.ikso.net/%7Ebertilo/tekstaro/ planned languages and language planning; interlinguistics is not just a science about planned interlinguistics and linguistic human rights. For more information, contact ESF: languages. I wish to study its set of problems from [email protected] Continued on page 3 2

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DB: What is the status of interlinguistics in HTL: Last year, colleagues recommended to BBI Books

China? What role should it play? (Beijing Broadcasting Institute) that I be given the

position of professor of applied and computational HTL: As is the case in other countries, La Nova Plena Ilustrita Vortaro. linguistics. It is very difficult to obtain work in Editor: Michel Duc-Goninaz interlinguistics hardly plays a significant scientific Beijing, but now with this posting everything is in Published: Paris: SAT. 2002. role in China. By my estimate, people will, order. In China, almost all professorial titles are of a Languages: Esperanto. pp. 1265 nevertheless, be ready to accept it if we can technical nature. The title of university professor is Extensively revised edition of the demonstrate more scientific results. Presently, many only used in universities. In other professions, there definitive illustrated dictionary of sociolinguists are interested in linguistic human are titles which are of a similar rank to university rights and language ecology. It will be difficult for Esperanto. professor. Two years earlier, I was named an them to find adequate solutions. Interlinguistics is ‘outstanding superior engineer.’ I was, therefore, capable of playing a serious and effective role in that able to carry this title to the university which Languages In A Globalising field. This is not only true for China, but, to an even accepted it and offered me the equivalent rank of World [orig. Géostratégies des greater degree, for the world. professor. Langues]

Editors: J. Maurais & M.A. Morris DB: Does the Esperanto movement in China DB: What is your status in the university and in Published: Cambridge: Cambridge support your interlinguistic activities? which departments do you teach students? University Press. 2003. Languages:

English, French. ISBN 0521821738 HTL: Since I previously lived in an isolated region HTL: I am now chief instructor in computational pp. 345 of China, I did not have much contact with the linguistics. Every semester I teach information Chinese Esperanto League. I nevertheless have the This book considers the effects of science for linguists and ‘automated language present-day trends in global politics impression that CEL is not very interested in the processing in Prolog’ for second and third year on the relative status of languages, scientific side of planned languages or about students. I have also participated in other research in and the directions in which the interlinguistics. Hopefully, communication between the department, chiefly with projects concerning linguistic hierarchy might develop CEL and myself will become better in the future. computational linguistics. In the first and second in the future.

DB: With which other aspects of interlinguistics years, my students will learn the basic information are you interested or occupied? about information science and linguistics. From the MLA International Bibliography. third year, they will study subjects compatible with Published: New York: Modern HTL: I am, in addition, interested in information their interests in planned languages and Language Association of America. science, computational linguistics, language computational linguistics. I am still unable to teach ISSN: 0024-8215 planning, dependent syntax and some other interlinguistics. However, I have discussed the The MLA International branches of linguistics. possibility of including interlinguistics as a field of Bibliography is a bibliography of study with the department head. Actually, BBI and journal articles, books, and DB: How did you come to obtain your post as a Esperanto have a very good relationship. In 1964, dissertations. It contains the most university professor? extensive annual bibliography of Continued on page 4 interlinguistic publications.

De Latino Sine Flexione

[Ein Jahrhundert Latino Centenario Journal Feature: Language Problems & Sine Flexione]. Author: Barandovska-Frank, Vera. Language Planning Published: San Marino: Akademia Libroservo. 2003. Languages: Language Problems and Language Planning is Esperanto, German. published in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. This A short monograph on the history international multi-lingual journal publishes articles of the simplified Latin invented by primarily on political, sociological, and economic aspects mathematician Giuseppe Peano. of language and language use. The journal also features

sections on Interlinguistics and publication reviews. st Language In The 21 Century Featured Articles in Issue 27(3) Editors: Humphrey Tonkin & Timothy Reagan. Published:

• Recent foreign language education policies in Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Palestine. Muhammad Hasan Amara 2003. ISBN: 1588113841 • Miscommunication between pilots and air traffic Features selected papers of the control. R. Kent Jones • Communication as source and motivator of language millennial conferences of the evolution. Vilmos Benczik Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. ISSN: 0272-2690 For more information see: www.benjamins.com

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Copenhagen and Goethenburg on interlinguistic and for ways to make them more readily available to Around the Globe issues. ESF expects to continue supporting the researchers. The Hodler Library is one of the colloquium event in 2004. foremost sources for documentary research on Esperantic Studies Foundation

Esperanto and planned languages. www.esperantic.org Esperanto Corpus (http://www.ikso.net/%7Ebertilo/tekstaro/) New ESF Website & Publications Lernu.net The first trial phase of the Esperanto research (www.esperantic.org) www.lernu.net corpus, initiated by ESF and compiled by Bertilo ESF's website, esperantic.org, was thoroughly Wennergren, reached completion in 2003. The trial revised and updated in 2003. In addition to a new Linguist List corpus contains two million words, encoded design, the site was updated with new information www.linguistlist.org following the guidelines of the Text Encoding pertaining to educational projects and interlinguistic Initiative (TEI). This year, work began on an research activities. In addition to making its newly Comprehensive linguistics resource expansion of the corpus to ten million words, with redesigned newsletter available online, the ESF site input from an international Advisory Committee of now offers an HTML version of Informilo por Ĝangalo experienced linguists and corpus users. Interlingvistoj (the leading Interlinguistics http://gxangalo.com

newsletter) and links to the peer-reviewed, Impressive Brazilian Esperanto portal OTHER INITIATIVES academic journal Language Problems and Language

Hodler Library Planning (LPLP). Le Monde Diplomatique

(Esperanto version) ESF assisted the Universal Esperanto Association to By Mark Fettes, Executive Director develop a comprehensive plan for the safeguarding http://eo.mondediplo.com ([email protected]) of the invaluable holdings of the Hodler Library International news site Haitao Liu con’t Brusela Komunikadcentro Journal Feature BBI offered the first class on Esperanto in a (articles password = saluton) Chinese university. Many Esperanto speakers on http://www.lingvo.org

Radio-Beijing at one time were students of BBI’s Site devoted to language equality, Esperanto courses. In a way, BBI is a cradle for multilingualism & Esperanto professional Esperantists in China. ipi journal Linguasphere DB: Is there anything more that you can tell us www.linguasphere.org about your research? Informilo Por Site devoted to world languages Interlingvistoj HTL: At this time, I am not engaged in a lot of & multilingualism interlinguistic research. Most of my work at the ISSN: 1385-2191 Updates for moment pertains to computational linguistics. Of We are interested Interlinguists course, I may pursue other research aligned with in receiving information my interests, but to do that I hope to receive about interesting websites, Informilo por Interlingvistoj is published four financial support from the university. I will need new books, articles, courses times a year by The Center for Research to carefully plan any interlinguistic research or other media pertaining to and Documentation on World Language endeavors. The university will likely not refuse to Esperanto & Interlinguistics. Problems (CED). IPI seeks to keep support interlinguistic projects provided that one Interlinguists up-to-date on research and Send us your latest events occurring in the field. can deliver a good program.

discoveries. Featured in Issue 45(2) Professor Haitao Liu is a university professor of applied and computational linguistics at the All contributions and reactions to 1. Bibliography of Occidental-Interlinguistic Beijing Broadcasting Institute (BBI). BBI is the the newsletter are welcome at publications only university in China that has become uniquely [email protected] 2. Review of Interlinguistic periodicals focused on communication studies. It now has 70 3. New books about European language departments and 12,000 students. It is also one of Previous editions of Esperantic politics the 100 most important universities in China. Studies are now available online at 4. Interlinguistics in Italy www.esperantic.org Haitao Liu can be reached c/o the following: Contact IPI c/o: Applied Linguistics Department To request additional free print School of Presentation Art copies, write to Detlev Blanke Beijing Broadcasting Institute P: ++49-30-54 12 633 [email protected] No. 1 Dingfuzhuang Dongjie, Chaoyang District E: [email protected] Beijing, CN-100024 P.R. China W: www.esperantic.org/publications [email protected]

By Detlev Blanke ([email protected]) Esperanto translation by Jason M. Clark © Esperantic Studies Foundation, 2004

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