Recent content by Michjo

The solution to that problem for Esperanto is actually quite simple: have existing teachers of other languages learn Esperanto. It's easy enough that if all language teachers were to start now, we'd have a corps of fully qualified of Esperanto teachers in a year, without anyone having to spend...

By "abomination, an awkward-sounding Frankenstein sloppily cobbled together from European languages", I suspect very strongly that Mr. Squishy really meant was that he IMAGINES Esperanto to be such. I speak Esperanto, and never have I felt it to be an abomination, or a Frankenstein, or awkward...

Esperanto's vocabulary is not only not too small, it is as least as large as that of the other languages suggested here. The number of ROOTS (or stems, if you like) is relatively small - about 10,000 official + 10,000 unofficial - but you can combine them with almost total freedom to create new...