esperanto_story1-10, Exercise 2: A fair summary Model answer (about 200 words, check the details): "Esperanto is a planned language published in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof, a Warsaw eye doctor from the multilingual town of BiaƂystok. He intended it as a neutral second language, not a replacement for mother tongues. A movement grew quickly, held its first world congress in 1905, and survived a schism over reform. After the First World War it sought recognition from the League of Nations, which did not adopt it, but it produced original literature and held large congresses, including one in Edinburgh in 1926. In the 1930s societies were suppressed in Germany and the Soviet Union and many members suffered. The movement rebuilt after 1945, won formal recognition from UNESCO without being adopted, and is now a small, scattered community of uncertain size with its own publishing, music and online life. It is not a world language, and it has outlasted most other planned languages." Check: every sentence matches a chapter. Add "reported" or "estimated" where the course did.