I am fortunate to be a competent linguist!

I’m able to speak my home language fluently obviously, and I’m able to speak Yiddish through my maternal grandmother. Russian of course!

I have learned to use English (in the style of the original people of the language - the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!), I can understand and get by in Romanian, Hungarian and even German (not quite as competently).

I can order food in Dutch and French, but having English, which very much is the linguafranca, I can speak to others if they have some English too. Languages are interesting.

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Glossy · F

And this is exactly why Esperanto was invented. It bridges the gap between the other languages, so anyone can speak to anyone else without learning their language, which might take years. You can learn Esperanto in a few weeks. Its rules are simple and logical. If they taught Esperanto in the Junior education system across Europe and the Western world, everybody will be able to talk to everybody else in a month. And yet no one ever suggested it as a policy in any political debate.

It’s almost as if we don’t want to talk to each other.

Teslin · M

@Glossy That is a great idea.

Glossy · F

@Teslin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Teslin · M

@Glossy Thank you. I was going to Google it tomorrow.