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From: terton@assi.s-link.de (Werner Rohmann)
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Subject: ESPERANTO, my love (was: Re: ESPERANTO, my ass)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 23:41:00 +0100
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Chris Gray  (cgra@se.bel.alcbel.be) wrote:

>
>
> -- In article <3k1csq$3a2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
> s_salomo@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Thierry Salomon) writes: % In article
> <3jq993$93t@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, 123@somewhere.there writes: %
> % |> [English is] probably one of the easiest languages to learn.
> %
> % If you are a native speaker of course.
> % Ask how many non-native speakers know the word for a "she" horse ?
>

I don't.

I needed a couple of *years* to become able to read English news. But my  
speaking still remains "Germish" (German with English words).

In ESPERANTO it tooks me a couple of *weeks* to read news and to write  
letters to several non-German-non-European people.

There is no intention to substitute English by Esperanto.
But Esperanto is an easy-to-learn-all-purpose secondary language.

Werner

