Lernu!
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Type of site
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Language learning |
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| Owner | E@I |
| Created by | E@I |
| Website | lernu.net |
| Alexa rank |
 202,163 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | December 2002 |
| Current status | Active |
lernu! is a multilingual, Web-based free-of-charge project for promoting and teaching Esperanto. The name Lernu comes from the imperative form of the Esperanto verb lerni, meaning "to learn". The site is run by E@I, an international youth organization, which started as a working group of the World Esperanto Youth Organisation.
The site's content includes various tools for learning Esperanto, such as exercises, games, dictionaries, grammatical overviews, an examination system and a multimedia library with books, music, voice-narrated stories and videos. The site also provides communication services such as an instant messenger, discussion forums on various topics, and news about Esperanto events. Esperantists and Esperanto organizations can advertise their activities and services on the website.
Statistics show the website being visited nearly 75 thousand times per month. Most of the visitors come from Europe, South-East Asia and both Americas. In May 2011, the site recorded its 100,000th registered user.
The lernu! project was first proposed at the first Esperanto@Interreto (now E@I) seminar in , Sweden in April 2000, and was developed in October 2001 at the second seminar of E@I, also in Sweden (in Uppsala). In July 2002 the project received monetary support from the American Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF), and work on the website started in August of the same year. It was publicly launched on 21 December 2002 and from then on has been supervised and developed by E@I with the ESF support and the help from many individual supporters and assistants:
Mark Fettes from Esperantic Studies Foundation and I discussed the idea in 2000 at the UN conference in New York City, but only in the beginning of 2002 the first concrete project proposal was made, and we presented it to ESF at CALICO the same year. Several months later we made a sketch and in December 2002 the first version of lernu! was launched.
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