Dr. Esperanto's International Language, Introduction and Complete Grammar

LibriVox recording of Dr. Esperanto's International Language, Introduction and Complete Grammar, by L.L. Zamenhof. Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater. In July 1887, Esperanto made its debut as a 40-page pamphlet from Warsaw, published in Russian, Polish, French and German: all written by a Polish eye-doctor under the pen-name of Dr. Esperanto (“one who hopes”). Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917) had a gift for languages, and a calling to help foster world amity: by a neutral “Internacia Lingvo” that anyone anywhere could readily use as a second language: neither forsaking a mother tongue, no