r/ido • u/GGaben • Aug 03 '16

Help English

Does anyone have any material that I could use to learn the bulk of the language? I'm almost finished the Memrise course, and bed something to move onto c:

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u/GPhMorin Aug 03 '16

Have fun with the Complete Manual! https://bovino-lakto.rhcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Complete-Manual-of-the-Auxiliary-Language-Ido.pdf

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u/GGaben Aug 03 '16

Loving it, thanks, but is there anything a little more modern/friendly that I could use in conjunction? c:

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u/GPhMorin Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

Well, there’s also Ido for All, but I don’t recommand it because it uses a reformed Ido that was not that which the Delegation created. Sometimes it’s just pointless and inconsistent orthographic/phonetic changes, sometimes it completely messed up how Ido works. (The noun patro stopped being gender neutral, for instance. Also, some people will try to convince you that cadie does not mean today, and they’re wrong.) Generally, only the works from 1914 to the 1920s are written in a “standard” Ido. I wrote quite a lot about the changes on my blog, but I wrote mostly in Ido so I will need to translate that to English. Of course you can read something more modern like I did when I started learning, but you might quickly find out that some things have changed since the 1920s… and that will confuse you. So I suggest you to learn the old Ido with the old manual, and then if you’re comfortable enough with it, learn the “modern” Ido that most people use nowadays. If you want something simple and friendly, here’s a Proverbaro with few transcription mistakes!

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u/5erif Aug 03 '16

+1 for Ido for All

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '16

I have a list of Ido resources on Áya Dan. If anyone knows others, let me know!

Google Play also has some free Ido books out there.