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Holy shit, why would I learn Latin instead of Esperanto if all I wanted to do was improve my information retention of Spanish? Do you know what Latin is like? (I've been teaching it to myself lately, and hot balls is it alot harder to pick up than Esperanto)
Anyway, this thread seems to be full of buttmad people who are against learning for the sake of learning. It's not like a person can only learn a small number of languages and then they are completely spent. I learned Esperanto on my own when I was 14 in less than a year and it has definitely been a huge help to me in learning other languages. Yes, any language would have this effect. But Eo is so simple to learn that it was like a warm up for my brain before I started in more heavily on natural languages. On its own, Eo has a limited amount of literature available and not a whole lot of speakers to converse with, but it was never meant to be anyone's primary language so that's just fine.
Anyway...Just relax, y'all. If there's any "useless" language we should be picking on here, it's toki pona.