Esperanto to be taught;
easy to write and speak
ESPERANTO from Page 1
If everyone in the world could
speak one neutral language,
people everywhere could speak to
each other as equals, Fritz said.
“Everyone of us is going to
have contact with people from
other countries,” she said. “If we
speak a neutral language, there’s
no one-upsmanship.”
Fritz’s son, Peter Brown, will
begin teaching an impromptu Es
peranto course Thursday at 5:30
p.m. He will hold the lesson at
Davinci’s restaurant, 11th and G
streets. Brown is a doctoral candi
date in Spanish at the University ol
Nebraska-Lincoln.
The class, sponsored by the
Nebraska International Language
Society, will run for two hours on
six consecutive Thursdays. The
cost to each student is SI6.
Fritz said the language is easy to
learn because the words are de
rived from those in existing lan
guages. About 60 percent of the
words are of English origin, she
estimated.
‘ ‘Tolstoy said he learned it in an
hour,” Fritz said, but most people
probably would need several years
of lessons to speak it fluently.
A working knowledge of the
language comes easier. Fritz said
she taught enough Esperanto to
Sunday school students in 10 les
sons for them to become pen pals
with Esperanto-speaking children
in Yugoslavia.
“If you’ve studied any lan
guage at all. you can probably
make out some of the words,” she
said.
Brown said Esperanto words
are easy to pronounce, so a
speaker’s nationality cannot be
identified by accents.
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Tajik delegates
talk to students
about soviet life
By Lee Rood
Senior Editor
About 25 University of Nebraska
Lincoln students met Friday with
delegates from the Soviet Union’s
southern Republic of Tajikistan.
The visit to UNL was one of the
Tajiks’ last stops before leaving
Nebraska Saturday morning. Their
week-long trip included a welcome
by Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris, a tour
of the Nebraska Legislature, dinner at
the Nebraska Indian Center and a trip
to Omaha to meet Soviet immigrant
Mrs. B (Rose Blumkin) of Nebraska
Furniture Mart.
The delegates, representing a vari
ety of professions in Tajik society,
used translators to tell students about
Tajik culture, Soviet politics and the
Jan. 23 earthquake that killed more
than 274 people and left 11,000 with
out shelter in their homeland.
bulion Mirzoshoev, chairman pre
sidium of the Tajik Society for
Friendship and Cultural Relations
with Foreign Countries and leader of
the group, said each of the 13 dele
gates liked Lincoln and the United
States for different reasons, but many
were impressed by “the high level of
technology and organizational la
bor.”
“Even Lenin said the things you
have to learn from Americans is their
big head for business and technol
ogy,” he said.
Mirzoshoev said “people don’t
gel to travel just everyday from
Tajikistan,” but that the group’s trip,
sponsored by the Friendship Force of
Lincoln, is the result of “new politi
cal thinking between Ronald Reagan
and Mikhail Gorbachev.”
“Coming to America, we can’t
solve all the problems and we don’t
intend to,” Mirz.oshocv said. “There
are disagreements between the
United States and the Soviet Union in
politics and economics, he said, but
both countries should be united in
avoiding nuclear weapons.”
Speaking of Soviet and American
build-up of nuclear weapons, he said,
“Whenever you overfill a glass of
water, it spills... We have to destroy
them.”
Mirzoshocv said his people arc
very pleased with Soviet party leader
Gorbachev, but that his ^popularity
is more evident in the U.S. than iri the
Soviet Union.”
Mazabsho Mabatshoev, editor-in
chief of the newspaper “Tojikistony
Sovety” in Dushambe, the capital of
Tajikistan, said Gorbachev’s per
estroika policy “embraces the entire
Soviet Union,” but that people in
Central Asia have their own prob
lems.
Tajikistan, which borders Af
ghanistan and China, is different
from the other 15 Soviet republics, he
said. The Tajik people speak a Ian
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Tajik. Because the official language
in Tajikistan is Russian, many people
feel the influence of Tajik is dying
out.
Mabatshoev also said people in
Tajikistan would like to have their
own economy, instead of a shared
Soviet economy.
“Everything that we produce that
we would use is ours and everything
we would sell to other republics
should be paid for,” he said.
People in Tajikistan arc very
pleased with glasnost, Mabatshoev
said. In the two years that he has been
editor of the newspaper, Mabatshoev
said, “We have become a completely
independent newspaper except for
the Ministry of Defense.” Even U.S.
newspaper reporters do not have ac
cess to military secrets, he said.
William bluer /Dally NabrasKan
Mahmadsaid Shamsylloev, left, and Sutton Mirzoshoev
were Introduced to the Nebraska Legislature Wednesday.
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