First of all, let me adress the elephant in the room, No, I don’t want to susbstitute the teaching of English in Europe with that of Esperanto, at the moment we aren’t ready in my opinion to break off this dependence from US geoploitical power, but rather, I’d gladly propose a campaign to encourage the use and the adoption of Esperanto at least across Europe and across our nearest commercial partners, like North-african lands and, why not, China.
Why should we seriously consider the adoption of Esperanto for our brotherland? :
1) Changing geopolitical aequilibria. Seriously guys, do we want to trust USA’s foreighn politics towards Europe? I strongly suggest to find commercial partners outside of our traditional economic environment, similarly to what our canadian brothers are doing. However, to do so Europe needs a stronger identity, and a deep fraternal bound, that I think could be reached with Esperanto, I’ll explain in the next points:
2) Esperanto is much quicker to learn for everyone. Being that Esperanto is an highly optimized language (although not perfect, I admit that) without any irregularity in its grammar, everyone in Europe can achieve fluency in about 150 hours, comparet to roughy 1000 hours necessary to reach a barely decent level of communication in English.
Even speakers outside of Europe find Esperanto generally much easier to learn, can you just imagine how desirable for Europe would be to have a reasonably efficient lingua franca not only between european citizens, but also between BRICS powers?
3) More chances of widespread use. So far only a percentage of EU-citizens has a passable level of painstakingly aqquired fluency in English, but if we manage to convince younger generations to invest little time in Esperanto, we will have a great percentage of coming Europeans with not only a decent knowlege in Esperanto, but also a greater knowledge of English itself, and that is because it has been prooven how propedeutical Esperanto is for the learning of other languages (even in non-indoeuropean languages).
4) People that were commonly left away from the knowledge of English, will suddently have at their disposal a powerful simple democratic tool to express himself, Esperanto doesn’t need a plethora of audio-visual contents to be consumed in order to get the grasp of it, just a slim grammar and a vocabulary, and that’s it, you are ready to go.
5) Stronger european cohesion, for us to have a role in the coming geopolitical chessboard we need our own communitarian language, and Esperanto IMO is the closest we can get to achieve a close-to-motherspeech common european language.
In conclusion, I strongly suggest that Esperanto will be a win-win for everyone, stronger Europe, stronger knowlege of English itself, stronger bound with non-US economical partners, or at least, these are my two cents.
what do you think? Should we embrace the green star all together? let me know what do you think about this.
Elkore, via frato