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Esperanto and the Search for a Global Language (Encore)

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The History of Esperanto

The Nazis, and in particular Adolf Hitler, hated Esperanto. Many Esperantas claim that there are 2 million speakers worldwide. The time it takes to become reasonably fluent in Esperanto is around 3-12 months. Despite these attempts at suppressing the language, it did still see some modest growth. It's a language that has vocabulary from both Germanic and Romance languages.

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