The Key to Bilingualism: Esperanto Pocket Textbook

Cover of booklet / Kovrilo de libretoA 32-page booklet (6.5cm x 9.5cm) introducing Esperanto and giving a basic instruction in the language. Created by Roger Springer.

Contents:

  • Formation of words
  • The elements of Esperanto
  • The personal pronouns
  • Numbers
  • Verbs
  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes

Plus:

  • ‘Esperanto at a glance’
  • Table of correlative words (e.g. what, then, someone, nowhere, …)
  • Body parts picture with Esperanto labels
  • Free online information

Download PDF, 2.4 MB

(A PDF of this booklet for printing machines is also available free. See the bottom of this page.)

Printing instructions

  1. Print four pages, DOUBLE-SIDED (i.e. 2 x A4 sheets of paper). (Printing single-sided will work, but with blank pages.) Use ‘Auto-fit to page’ setting, or equivalent.
  2. Pages 25 and 26 should be in the same corner on the first sheet. Pages 27 and 28 should be in the same corner on the second sheet.
  3. Put the sheets together with pages 25, 26, 27 & 28 (with the red marks) in the same corner and in order.
  4. Trim the two sheets along the thin line next to pages 32 and 17.
  5. Fold the combined sheets, short edge to short edge, so the barcode is visible.
  6. Crease the fold and slit the fold apart with a knife. Do not separate the sheets.
  7. Hold the combined sheets so the bar-code is facing towards you.
  8. Fold the sheets, short edge to short edge, so the barcode is still visible.
  9. Crease the fold and slit the fold apart with a knife. Do not separate the sheets.
  10. Hold the combined sheets so the barcode is facing towards you.
  11. Staple the booklet on the two green staple marks.
  12. Fold the sheets so that the staples are on the ridge.
  13. (Trim the booklet if you wish.)

Alternatively, download a version for reading on-screen (PDF, 7.2 MB)