Literacy: LOTE Boosts Basic Skills
Experts agree that early LOTE helps develop literacy skills in their first language. Esperanto is particularly useful because its structure is designed to be 'transparent' so that it serves as a model of the general features which all languages must have.
Even unfamiliar Esperanto words are recognizable as nouns, adjectives, present tense verbs etc. because they are labeled that way by easily recognizable features, such as suffixes. The resulting thorough understanding of grammar is applicable to any language.
Reading and spelling are as simple as possible in Esperanto. The 28 letters of the alphabet always sound the same and each sound can be written in only one way. No letters are silent or randomly doubled.This saves time for everyone, and is especially valuable to children whose self-esteem struggles with the difficulty of English.
Children with special needs may be able to have a second language too, if you choose the easiest.
Esperanto also helps numeracy by the exact match of words and concepts to both our number system and other primary mathematical concepts such as fractions and multiplication.
Esperanto's Latin roots help build English vocabulary and promote an interest in connections between languages.
Even unfamiliar Esperanto words are recognizable as nouns, adjectives, present tense verbs etc. because they are labeled that way by easily recognizable features, such as suffixes. The resulting thorough understanding of grammar is applicable to any language.
Reading and spelling are as simple as possible in Esperanto. The 28 letters of the alphabet always sound the same and each sound can be written in only one way. No letters are silent or randomly doubled.This saves time for everyone, and is especially valuable to children whose self-esteem struggles with the difficulty of English.
Children with special needs may be able to have a second language too, if you choose the easiest.
Esperanto also helps numeracy by the exact match of words and concepts to both our number system and other primary mathematical concepts such as fractions and multiplication.
Esperanto's Latin roots help build English vocabulary and promote an interest in connections between languages.
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