[klez]

My very rusty Esperanto seems to still be able to get the gist of what you said (and I also understood the little I read of an article on your website).

My trouble is that whatever material I used to learn it (mainly Kurso de Esperanto and a course on lernu!) seemed to be completely detached from the way most people seem to actually write. Lots of suffixes I've never seen used in the learning material are abundantly used in the real world.

All of this to say, where do I go to learn a bit better?

[ebzzry]

One of the best books for that are Esperanto Learning and Using the International Language by David Richardson and Complete Esperanto by Tim Owen.

[elsjaako]

My feeling is that the courses teach you the grammar pretty well, but you have to read (with a dictionary ready) to get more of what you are asking for.