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If you're curious...
"Mi" - pronoun meaning I/me
"lernis" - learned (The root is "lern-". The following rules apply to all verbs: "-i" is the infinitive form, "-is" is past tense, "-as" is present tense, "-os" is future tense, "-us" is conditional tense (kind of like could/would), and "-u" is imperative/command form.)
"Esperanton" - obviously Esperanto, but the "-n" suffix denotes a direct object.
"ĉar" - because
"volas" - (verb, present tense) want
"havi" - (verb, infinitive) to have
"amikojn" - (noun, direct object, plural) - root is "amik-", the "-o" suffix denotes a noun, "-j" makes it plural, and then the "-n" for direct object again
"en" - in
"ĉiaj" - all
"la" - the (this is the only article in the language; incidentally, there is no indefinite article)
"landoj"- countries ("-o" is noun, "-j" is plural)
"de" - of (there are actually multiple words that can mean "of" but that's another topic entirely)
"mondo" - world
The letter "ĉ" is pronounced like "ch"; Esperanto doesn't do two-letter phonemes because one of its foundational principles is one letter = one sound.