ESPERANTO

One year of Esperanto should be compulsory in all schools.

"Many schools used to teach children the recorder, not to produce a nation of recorder players, but as a preparation for learning other instruments. [We teach] Esperanto, not to produce a nation of Esperanto-speakers, but as a preparation for learning other languages."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
"A child can learn as much Esperanto in about 6 months as he would French in 3-4 years... if all children studied Esperanto during the first 6-12 months of a 4-5 year French course, they would gain much and lose nothing."
"...the unchallenged superiority in the ability to use German achieved by the students who had studied Esperanto was observed."
"Esperanto is the right language as a basis for those who plan on studying other foreign languages."


Diskutu.

Esperanto sucks, go with Ido.
Anyway, I'm fluent in German, English and Spanish, and with that I can at least read Esperanto pretty much fluently too. I guess it really doesn't take that much to learn it if you already speak one or more of the source languages, since the grammar is so simple.
It might be a good idea for the EU to make it so that Esperanto/Ido or a newly created similar language would be taught in the schools of all member countries. That from the first grade, and later on English, German or French.

Esperanto is only good when it comes to Indo-European languages. I don't think it'll be as useful to a person learning Mandarin.

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

Why not just teach children a useful language instead

>>5
did you not read the posted link at all?

I wish Ido was Esperanto. :|

>>4
Wow, I knew Esperanto had problems, but that's still shocking.

Esperanto is the linux of languages


Shit sux.