Easy Ido

This is a course for the language Ido. Ido is a simple language to learn, and the explanations in this course are simple too. If you can translate this course into your language, please do so.

What is Ido?

• Ido is perhaps the easiest language in the world to learn. It has a 100% regular grammar with no exceptions.
• Ido was created to be a language that everybody could learn quickly to talk to people from other countries.
• Ido was created on the basis of Esperanto but changed to make it easier to learn and write.
• Ido is used by at least 1000 people in the world today.
• Ido uses no special letters like in the Esperanto language (ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ) so you don't need extra software to write it.
• Ido has its own Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
• As of 2024, Ido is 117 years old.
• Ido has its own magazines and literature.
• Ido looks a lot like French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian (and Esperanto too).
• Ido will help you understand Latin and other romance languages.

Okay, let's learn Ido!

• Lesson one
• Lesson two
• Lesson three
• Lesson four
• Lesson five
• Lesson six
• Lesson seven
• Lesson eight

Where to go from here

• Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona.
  • Ido society in the UK
  • Deutsche Ido-Gesellschaft
  • Ido-France

• Parolez Ido - an Ido-language community with blogs and forums.

• Ido-English dictionaries:
  • English-Ido at Glosbe
  • English-Ido dictionary by Dyer
  • Dictionary by Germana-Ido

• Magazines:
  • Gazuyi
  • Progreso
  • Ido-Saluto!

• Wikipedio - Wikipedia in Ido