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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: talk & travel
In-Reply-To: elebras@sbchm1.sunysb.edu's message of 13 Feb 1995 16:34:59 GMT
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In article <3ho1nj$h1a@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> elebras@sbchm1.sunysb.edu (Erwan Le Bras) writes:

   And by the way, do you realise that Esperanto is a Indoeuropean made-up
   langage. So all the arguing that this langage is easy falls completely when 
   you try to teach it to someone from China for instance (1/4 of the world
   population).

That has been tried, even with support from the Chinese government.
And yes, Chinese can learn Esperanto. Better than English.

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