Welcome to Easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from ok to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Todays story is for pre intermediate learners.
The name of the story is the boy who hoped.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com.
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hope this contains the full story as well as my conversation before it today's story is about Esperanto.
If you don't know Esperanto is a language, but it's different to other languages.
Esperanto isn't spoken in any one country.
Esperanto is actually a constructed language, so it's made up.
Now that might sound very strange.
You maybe have heard of constructed languages from tv shows like Game of Thrones, or from the film Avatar where there is the Na'vi language, or even from Lord of the Rings by J.
R.
R.
Tolkien.
However, Esperanto is different to these languages because Esperanto was made for international communication.
So Esperanto was made to be the world language.
Now, of course, these days the world language is English, or at least the biggest world language is English, but there are still many Esperanto speakers.
In fact, I speak Esperanto fluently myself.
Today's story is about the creation of the language.