Editing Lernu!

{{Short description|Esperanto learning tool}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''lernu!''}}
{{Infobox website
| name             = ''lernu!''
| logo             = LernuNovaEmblemo.png
| logo_size        = 150px
| url              = {{URL|https://lernu.net}}
| commercial       = No
| type             = [[Language learning]]
| registration     =Required
| owner            = E@I
| author           = E@I
| launch_date      = {{start date and age|2002|12}}
| current_status   = Active
}}

'''''lernu!''''' is a [[multilingual]], web-based free project for promoting and teaching [[Esperanto]]. The name ''Lernu'' comes from the [[imperative mood|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 Organization]].

The site's [[content (media)|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.

==History==
The ''lernu!'' project was first proposed at the first Esperanto@Interreto (now E@I) seminar in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] in April 2000, and was developed in October 2001 at the second seminar of E@I, 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lernu.net/|title=lernu.net - A multilingual website for learning the international language Esperanto|website=lernu.net - A multilingual website for learning the international language Esperanto|language=en|access-date=2019-07-19}}</ref>

During four years of the project's development, several people contributed. The core team was responsible for the overall supervision and development of ''lernu!''. It was assisted by several designers and programmers. Dozens of translators used a specially-made online translation system to make the website available in more than 20 languages.

==Courses==
There are multiple courses on the website, ranging from simple word learning (Bildoj kaj Demandoj) to difficult rewriting of stories (Kio okazas)

== Interface ==
Users are able to view the site's interface in their choice of 24 languages – [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]] (both ''simplified'' and ''traditional'' characters), [[Danish language|Danish]], [[English language|English]], Esperanto, [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[French language|French]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[German language|German]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Kirundi]], [[Swahili language|Kiswahili]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] (''[[Bokmål]]''), [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Serbo-Croatian|Serbian]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]] and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]; a further five languages—[[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Serbo-Croatian|Croatian]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]—have at least 70 percent of the interface localized; nine additional languages – Dutch, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese – are in varying stages of completing the interface translation.

== Statistics ==

* About 50,000 lernu.net users possess at least a basic understanding of Esperanto.{{fact|date=January 2022}} 
* In 2013, the website reported 150,000 registered users and had between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors each month.<ref>{{cite web |title=La programo de la kleriga lundo en UK 2013 |url=http://www.uea.org/kongresoj/2013/kleriga_lundo.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130805171625/http://www.uea.org/kongresoj/2013/kleriga_lundo.html |archive-date=August 5, 2013 |access-date=January 6, 2014 |website=Universala Esperanto Asocio}}</ref> 
* As of October 2018, Lernu had 320,000 registered users.
* Currently, the website is being visited nearly 75 thousand times per month.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lernu.net Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lernu.net?p=&r= |access-date=2019-04-05 |website=www.alexa.com}}</ref>
* Most of the visitors come from [[Europe]], [[South-East Asia]] and both [[Americas]].<ref>[http://en.lernu.net/komunikado/uzantoj/mapo.php lernu!: Communication / Users / Map<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070331122742/http://en.lernu.net/komunikado/uzantoj/mapo.php|date=2007-03-31}}</ref><ref>[http://www.liberafolio.org/2011/cent-mil-uzantoj-en-la-retejo-lernu.net Cent mil uzantoj en la retejo Lernu.net] (in Esperanto). Libera Folio, 6 June 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011.</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official|https://lernu.net/}}

[[Category:Esperanto education]]
[[Category:Language-learning websites]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2002]]
[[Category:German educational websites]]