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*facepalm*
Yes, any language will help you learn the next I already said this (if you could pay attention)
But Esperanto is around 10x easier to learn than other natural languages.
When the students learned Esperanto for 1 year and then French for the next three, if that had been spanish instead of Esperanto they would have had to learn if for much longer, 3-5 years to become experts, and it would have defeated the purpose of learning French faster.