Esperanto? What? Why? How?
A bit of background info: I'm struggling with my German and I am at beginner/post-beginner stage. I think it's the grammar. Also, I'm at French and Spanish intermediate level. I want to get better at them. I'm 15 and I love travelling, history, culture and languages.
When on the net, I keep finding loads of articles on Esperanto. I know it's an artificial language and I was not really interested by it. However, I was told it would improve my knowledge and how well I learn German and French. Is it true? If so, how do I learn it? What do I need? How long would it take to become reasonably "good" (but not fluent) at Esperanto? What does it sound like? Sorry for about 6 questions in one but I'm a bit confused by it all.
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It's not an artificial language, it's a real language but there are hardly native speakers. It's meant to be a second language, which is good.
Honestly I only just started learning Esperanto an hour ago and it is SO EASY, I'm not even joking. I'm learning French and I decided to try out Esperanto so I'd become better at French.
To me it sounds a bit like Italian.
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Yes, Esperanto will help you with German and French. I don't think it will take long to become considerable good at the language, but everyone is different.
Although the sound of Esperanto without doubt bears a robust resemblance to Latinate languages because of all of the vocabulary inherited from Latin, the query of which detailed language it so much resembles is dependent upon the listener. Americans generally consider it appears like Italian or Spanish, however there also are a few phrases that do not sound a lot in any respect like the ones languages — Esperanto has plenty of Germanic and Slavic impacts, too — so a few say it sounds extra like Portuguese or Romanian. Naturally, you can discover Italians who do not consider it appears like Italian and Spaniards who consider it sounds very one of a kind from Spanish, and so forth. Since only a few humans study Esperanto from start, just about all people who speaks the language has an accessory because of the affect in their countrywide language. Speakers from Poland and the previous republics of Yugoslavia are generally judged to have essentially the most "excellent" accessory amongst Esperanto audio system, so maybe the ones languages might be viewed closest in how they sound.