The Best Way to Learn Esperanto in 2026

The best way to learn Esperanto depends on what you want to do with it. Someone who wants to write to friends in other countries and someone who wants to pass an exam need different things. For both, most of your time goes to reading and listening to Esperanto you can follow, which is called comprehensible input. The rest goes to review and some real conversation.

Bubblegum covers the reading and listening part. Poppy, your AI tutor, writes Esperanto lessons at your level about things you like, with audio, a dictionary, and grammar topics on the same page. Regenerative Review™ brings the words you save back in new lessons. Add a tutor or a pen friend for speaking and feedback.

A 2016 review of 49 studies in Reading in a Foreign Language, a University of Hawaii journal, found that people learning English read better after reading a lot of easy material.

To check the level, read a few sentences. If most have about one new word, keep reading. If you can't tell what's happening, pick something easier.

For every goal, most of your time goes to reading and listening. Spend the rest on the skill your goal needs most.

• 💌Make Friends Around the WorldWrite short messages to people from other countries, and read what they write back. Learn each new word inside a sentence you can reuse in your next message.
• 🧳Travel and Stay With HostsPasporta Servo is a free list of Esperanto speakers who host travelers, and it has been running since 1974. Learn the lines you will need at the door, such as greetings and thanks, and say them aloud.
• 🎪Go to the Universala KongresoThe 112th Universala Kongreso is on 3 to 10 July 2027 in Melbourne. Play Muzaiko and read the news in Libera Folio, so the speech and the names sound familiar when you arrive.
• 📚Read Magazines and BooksStart with a few 50LANGUAGES lessons and their MP3s. Then read articles in Vikipedio, and try Monato and Libera Folio once longer texts feel comfortable.
• 📝Pass an Esperanto ExamExams follow the European language levels, from B1 to C2, and can be written, spoken or both. The Esperanto Association of Britain page links specimen exams, so practice with one at your level.
• 🎲Learn It for FunRead a lesson on something you enjoy, and save the words you like.

To see how many hours each stage takes, read how long it takes to learn Esperanto.

Most parts have a free option, such as the Lernu course or the 50LANGUAGES lessons, and an app or service for when you want more.

• ✂️Learning Words Without Their PartsEsperanto builds words from parts, so <W lang="eo">bona</W> (good) and <W lang="eo">malbona</W> (bad) belong together. Learn the part and what it does, and you get many words from one.
• 🗂️Lists With No SentencesLearn each word inside a sentence you read and hear, and save the whole sentence.
• ➖Dropping the -n on a Direct ObjectA direct object takes -n, as in <W lang="eo">Mi legas libron</W> (I read a book). Check for it in every sentence you write.