Comments on: Learning a foreign language, is English or Chinese more usefull?

By: Ehrin

Ehrin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:16:12 +0000

You seem to have a good handle on english from your post. Why not try Chinese. I work for a language learning site http://www.edufire.com. Email me at ehrin (at) edufire.com to get your first lesson free.

thanks

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:42:34 +0000

Interesting point — but although I don’t dispute the ideas behind Esperanto if I had to learn a new language today the arguments are not too strong.

Wikipedia lists:

Esperanto has about 2 mln speakers

English has about 0.5–1.8 billion
Chinese (Mandarin) has about 1.1 billion

The chances that you are able to have a conversation in either English or Chinese are quite a bit higher.

By: Bill Chapman

Bill Chapman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:15:56 +0000

I would argue the case for learning Esperanto.

You might want to take a look at http://www.esperanto.net