>>47
Yeah right. Like to see you try that with Esperanto and Swahili or Chinese.
The reason that Esperanto helps with a forgein language is that it uses a pan-european vocabulary and indo-european grammar. Since most people are learning indo-european langauges, it helps. It just won't help you if the language is something else.
If you want to get good at any type of language, I suggest learning something like lating or greek that requires a good grasp of grammar. Get used to declining and conjugating and understanding case systems. Esperanto won't really force you to learn that the way classical languages do. Esperanto recognizes only nomitaive and accusitive. It won't help when you need to mark genative or ablative or dative cases.