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Originally Posted by kat  I started picking up Esperanto when I was minorly ill for a week once and found that I could chat online using a dictionary in it after a few days - at that point, I only spoke English and really terrible Italian, so that was really cool for me (I could understand a fair amount of Esperanto in written form before I ever studied it, due to shared vocabulary with English/French/Italian, all of which I could read to various degrees - nowhere near fluently in the latter two cases). I haven't studied Esperanto as much as I'd like to, and I'm still far from fluent, but how quickly I could manage basic conversations was an "oh wow" moment for me, after several years of very frustrating language study with extremely low marks in school |
I hear so many good things about Esperanto. Especially that it's easy to learn, but also that it would be a more fair language in for example international negotiations. Today native English speakers have an advantage in most international negotiations, but that would not be the case if we all shared an ability to speak Esperanto.
Unfortunately I don't think it will be possible for everybody to start speaking Esperanto. Languages grow as people use them and almost nobody is currently using Esperanto
