Susan Chahwan is a Pre-primary Director and Director of Teaching and Learning for children from aged 3 to 6 years old at Sutherland Shire Montessori School. She is in the process of integrating Esperanto into her classroom with the aid of Mondeto’s all-in-one program and says it can be a valuable learning tool as well as a conduit to help build relationships with people from different parts of the globe.
“It is a language that our class can learn together that is simple, systematic and logically constructed. Success in learning this language will be transferable when at another time we try and learn another language.
“The order of the language makes the concept of grammar easy to understand. Being Latin-based, the roots of words and their meanings are exposed and can be discussed.  You don’t have to have a native speaker at hand and Esperanto can be learned anywhere.”
“I also think the widespread learning of Esperanto could be seen as a mark of respect to all cultures - to meet a part of the way by learning a language for common use worldwide.”