Practise Esperanto Affixes!
I always notice that mastery of the affixes is essential for understanding Esperanto and for speaking it fluently. The thing is that many Esperanto speakers never have a very big vocabulary… but you don’t need one if you have fully mastered the affixes. Sometimes I even wish that German or English or other languages had a reliable affix system like this, because I start a sentence and find that I’ve temporarily forgotten a word, or it’s on the tip of my tongue and I just can’t get it out. Let’s say it’s the word “auxlo” (= auditorium). If you have trouble coming up with that word in Esperanto, you can continue speaking without a noticeable stop and people won’t even know you’ve been missing a word, because you’d say something like “prelegejo” (prelegi+ejo = to lecture + place = lecture-place) and that’s a perfectly fine way of expressing yourself. In fact, it’s considered good language usage to say “prelegejo” instead of “auxlo”, because it enables beginners to understand more easily, particularly if they come from a non-Indo-European language background.
Since it’s so crucial to understand agglutinated words quickly and to be able to come up with some yourself without much thinking, I’ve decided to post some exercises here for you to improve your understanding of Esperanto affixes…
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