Do you want that people from different countries could communicate with each other in peace?
I don't know your answer, but I can tell you that Lazar Ludwig Zamenhof had such a dream.
This talented man wanted that people from different parts of the world to be able to understand each other. To do this he planned to create an artificial language. And so in 1887 the world saw a new, artificial language - Esperanto.
Why an artificial language?
When everyone learns a people's language, this people's get priority. For example, Americans know English from childhood. Foreigners, on the other hand, need to spend a lot of time and effort learning it.
Esperanto solves this problem. It's an artificial language, and everyone learns it in the same way. No one has an advantage.
Is it true that Esperanto's goal was to supplant other languages?
No, it is not true! Esperanto was created and planned as an international language. It had to be taught to people from different countries, in order to be able to communicate with each other in peace. That is to say, the language barrier should have been lowered.
At home, people would continue to speak their native language.
What is the peculiarity of Esperanto?
The peculiarity of Esperanto is that it is, at various estimates, the easiest language in the world. Many say that in order to reach a conversational level you need to spend about 150 hours studying it. Agree with you - it's very little. The grammar of the language is very simple. It has only 16 rules, which are easy to remember. The words are memorized quickly.
Once you learn Esperanto, it becomes easier to understand languages like French, Spanish, Italian and others.
How many people know Esperanto and with whom can you speak it?
According to various estimates, Esperanto is spoken by anywhere from 150 thousand to 2 million people. These numbers are approximate. But you can still find someone to talk to.
There are programs and social networks where you can find Esperanto speakers and communicate with them. That's very interesting. You already have a common topic of conversation-you know Esperanto.