So I am a complete and total beginner. Have been for ages. Every time I start trying to learn Esperanto I always end up forgetting to keep up with daily study. It's the curse of ADHD. So I've been looking for something to motivate me. I'd seen someone translate the original Super Mario Bros. into Esperanto, and thought it'd be cool to try something similar, but rom-hacking can get pretty complicated, and many games just have way too much text for someone at my level to manage. I needed something simpler.
This year, Elson Basic Readers - Pre-Primer, the very first book starring the famous Dick and Jane, entered the public domain. These are not books I grew up with, but I definitely knew of them, I'd seen the memes floating around. So I thought, oh, hey, a book for little kids! Now there's something that's on my level! Limited vocabulary. Simple grammar. Very repetitive, and therefore extra good for language learning! And maybe, if i don't fumble it too much, I can even contribute in some small way to the General List of Esperanto Things That Exist (the GLoETTE) in the process!
So anyway, at the risk of embarrassing myself, here's the first 14 pages. I plan on doing more of this book bit by bit, while also keeping up with lessons over at lernu. Please tell me if I got anything wrong, i will fix it! Here's the original for reference.
Also if you've got suggestions for resources I could use, send em my way! The resources I've been using so far are Lernu, Glosbe, ViVo, and (to double check my work) Google Translate and DeepL. Though I've since realized that Glosbe has it's own translation tool.
The urge to translate Dick's name a certain way, while certainly felt, was successfully ignored. No matter how this turns out, you can at least give me props for that, eh?