The discussion about multiple languages got me thinking about this. Does anyone here speak Esperanto?

In case anyone isn't familiar with it, Esperanto is a language that was created in the 19th century to be politically neutral and easy to learn. Its creator lived in an area that is now part of Poland but was then Russian. He believed that some of the conflict he saw in day to day life there could have been avoided if people shared a common language. He also believed it was important to have a language that was neutral, not forced on people by a colonial power. To fulfill that goal he developed a new language, and also tried to keep it as easy to learn as possible. There are no irregular verbs or silent letters in the language, no exceptions to rules.

I took an Esperanto class over the winter. The class was one evening a week and within two weeks I was able to read kid's books, within a month I was reading Esperanto Wikipedia pages (using a dictionary a lot), and within two months I was able to carry on simple conversations at a party.

Cu vi parolas Esperanton?