Thread: Learning a second language

Originally Posted by Caledonian

Esperanto was a marvelous idea, and deserved to take off once the United Nations got under way, and yet it is practically dead nowadays. Maybe that is because nobody loves it as his own, and I'm sure few people, even among Esperanto speakers, ever got into the habit of thinking directly in it. Look at the way Shakespeare, the Bible, Churchill, Billy Connolly and a host of other sources creep into our daily words. I don't believe that would happen with Esperanto.

This is why Latin was considered the language of science. It's dead language, not subject to cultural amalgamations.

My only problem with Esperanto is that it's not truly a 'neutral' language. It's very Western European in structure, and those who already speak a Romantic language would have the easiest time learning it. Its presumptions are Eurocentric.