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As far as I can tell, the differences involve number:
Iam means once, or sometime; at some unspecified (single) time.
Foje can mean once or sometimes; it's the adverbial form of fojo which means occasion or (a) time, so you can thing of foje as meaning "at a time" or "occasionally"
Kelka means some, so kelkfoje (or kelkafoje, though I see it's frowned on for an excess of syllables) means sometimes or occasionally. :)
Surfing round, I see kelkfoje used as "now and then," "now and again."
All are adverbs.
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Here's my theory. ESTI is a verb, which is not quite equal to the English word BE. To describe a verb, we use adverbs. The sentence can be understood like that: how does something(lerni lingvo foje) exist(esti)? It(lerni lingvo foje) exists(estas) easily(facile).