#sara does languages

 People learn Spanish as having feminine and masculine words. El mapa, La mujer, el autobús, la puerta, etc. Swedish also has gendered language. En smörgås, ett äpple. Now normally this would not matter, if you confused them and said ”ett smörgås” people would just laugh it off. But in Swedish, to make the definite form of a word, you need to know if it is an Ett word or an En word. Yeah, it is still just a silly mistake, but it helps knowing these.

Generally, if the thing is living, it is an En word. The only exception to this (Please correct me if I am wrong) is Ett barn. However, just because all living things are En words does not mean all En words are living. For example, en smörgås. A sandwich. Unless you are having a realllllllly fresh tuna sandwich, it should not be alive.

 “But wait! Sara! What was that thing you were mumbling about earlier? Something about definitely an article?” 

Definite articles exist in some, but not all languages. In English, we have just one. The. In Spanish, we have two. El and La. In Esperanto, one: La. In Russian, none. All of these go before the word they make definite.

So what’s the Swedish definite article?

              Well. It doesn’t have one. Instead of having a separate word to make a concept definite, it just uses a feature of linguistics known as agglutination. It moves the indefinite article (a/an in English; En/Ett in Swedish) to the end of the word. En smörgås becomes Smörgåsen. Ett äpple becomes Äpplet (Ett words only have one “t” in their definite forms)

How do I type those Esperanto letters?

               Esperanto has an alphabet of 31 letters. The standard Latin alphabet, plus Ĉĉ, Ĝĝ, Ĵĵ, Ŝŝ, and Ĥĥ. These letters are commonly typed as Cx, Gx, Jx, Sx, Hx, or Ch, Gh, Jh, Sh, and Hh.

Examples: Ŝi diris ĝin // Sxi diris gxin // Shi diris ghin

                 Personally, if I don’t have an Esperanto keyboard available, I prefer the x-system, as I think it looks nicer. However, enough about this. You wanna know how to type the capped letters.

 For Windows Users:

               I personally prefer Ek! Ek! is a simple program that allows you to type the letter and follow it with an x or an h to create the capped letter. (Example: Sx -> Ŝ//hh -> ĥ)

               Link: Here ((NOTE: The entire webpage IS in Esperanto))

                 Another program out there is Bitabismo. Unfortunately, his actual website has been corrupted. However, there was a download supplied by the creator, Marcus Sunnell, in 2012.

               DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK: Here

                              NOTE: I understand you may not be trusting of some random on the internet, and some person who reblogs this might change that link to a virus, so the website I received that link from can be found here.

 For Mac (OSX) Users: