I think Esperanto is interesting and I would be facinated to learn more about it and to learn it. It would interest me in an intellectual sense. However, I have never met anyone who speak it in real life. I spend my working life with international students and if it was really effective in this day and age I feel I would have met speakers of it before now. I speak English, French, German, Spanish and Polish and I would rather learn another real language to communicate with, rather than an invented language. When Esperanto was invented, we did not have as much international communication and it was not as easy to communicate with speakers of other languages. In the last half century, English has overtaken the role that Esperanto was invented to fill. This does not mean that English will always be the international language, it all depends on politics, after all. However, if Esperanto was to be effective, I am certain it would have become so before now. I therefore feel that Esperanto is unlikely to ever become an effective means of communication. It may have over 1 millions speakers worldwide but this does not mean that any of them are using it effectively to achieve communicative aims.

According to numerous studies and tests in schools throughout the world, children who were taught Esperanto before another foreign language succeeded in learning the second language much faster and better than without taking a prior course of Esperanto. It looks like that the esperato is the effective language.

According to the internet, Esperanto was created in 1887 by a Polish doctor named Zamenhof. The main objective of Esperanto is to serve as a common auxiliary language, fostering more effective and fair international communication. The Esperanto movement also supports linguistic diversity, democracy, human emancipation, and a global culture for peace. My colleagues tell me that Esperanto is relatively easy to learn, and is currently used by a worldwide community estimated at over one million speakers. Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction and radio broadcasting. So overall I have to agree that it can be an effective language despite only 1 million speakers. worldwide

i never been close to esperanto but i know it has a long history and for instance in my city there is still active groups which date back to the times of pre civil spanish war when the anarquist movement took seriously this international language as a means of promote international solidarity among working class. by the way, i saw your profile and i see you are very romantic......pretty song this of "besame mucho"...would you like to know some others of the style?

Hello Ila, Your question is not particularly clear. Effective for whom and as what? Let me give you three examples to show you what I mean: Firstly, there is a rich body of poetry written in Esperanto, so we could say that, for those who choose to write poetry in it, Esperanto is effective as a vehicle for poetic discourse. Secondly, there is a scientific association called the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino, which requires students to use Esperanto alongside their native language. As the academy has now been in existence for about twenty-five years, we could say that Esperanto is, for those who have studied and who continue to study there, effective as a vehicle for scientific discourse. Finally, there exists in Japan the Oomoto religion, which places great importance on Esperanto as a means of achieving world peace (I think!) and which has been publishing in Esperanto since the 'twenties, so we could also say that, for the followers of this religion, Esperanto is effective as a vehicle for religious/spiritual discourse. All the best, Alvin