Some radio stations broadcast regularly on Esperanto. And it’s possible to hear some broadcasts not only on TV but also
in Internet. Among Esperanto radio stations are: Cina Radio Internacia (International Chinese radio), Radio Havana Kubo
(Radio of Cuba), Radio Polonia ( Polish radio), Radio Vatikana (Vatican Radio)

Useful references:

Admirers of Esperanto radio (AERA)

Archive Esperanto radio in MP3

Esperanto radio in DMOZ

The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar

Pasporta Servo is a hospitality network, currently consisting of some 1350 hosts in more than 85 countries around the globe. To join the network as a guest, you only have to buy the address list, which is updated each year. Then you can use the service. Each host has specified some conditions, for example on the number of guests or days, or notification in advance. Hosts won't charge you anything, many will even offer you breakfast or a perfect dinner, but if you come for a week with four people, you'll understand that some may ask for a small contribution. The price of the list covers our administration costs.

Esperanto literature began before the official publication of the language; the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, translated poetry and prose into the language as he was developing it as a test of its completeness and expressiveness, and published several translations and a short original poem as an appendix to the first book on the language, Unua Libro. Other early speakers wrote poetry, stories and essays in the language; Henri Vallienne was the first to write novels in Esperanto. Except for a handful of poems, most of the literature from Esperanto's first twenty years or so is now regarded as of historical interest only.


Between the two World Wars, several new poets and novelists published their first works, including several recognized as the first to produce work of outstanding quality in the still-young language: Julio Baghy, Eŭgeno Miĥalski, Kálmán Kalocsay, Heinrich Luyken, and Jean Forge.


Modern authors include Claude Piron and William Auld, who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature a number of times.


Esperanto has seen a solid production of material in Braille since the work of the blind Russian Esperantist Vasilij Eroŝenko, who wrote and taught in Japan and China in the 1910s and 1920s.



Over 25,000 books in Esperanto have been published, and the largest Esperanto book service at the World Esperanto Association offers over 4,000 books in its catalog. Over 100 original novels have been published in Esperanto, plus a larger number of novellas, short story collections, and poetry collections. Two major literary magazines, Fonto and Literatura Foiro, appear regularly; some other magazines, such as Monato, also publish fiction.

Information from wikipedia.org

Zamenhof was born on December 15, 1859 in the town of Białystok (in what is now Poland but was then part of the Russian Empire) to Jewish parents. The town's population was made up of three major ethnic groups: Poles, Belorusians, and a large group of Yiddish-speaking Jews. Zamenhof was saddened and frustrated by the many quarrels between these groups. He supposed that the main reason for the hate and prejudice lay in mutual misunderstanding, caused by the lack of one common language that would play the role of a neutral communication tool between people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.