What is his main criticism of Esperanto?

One widely-cited problem with Esperanto is its treatment of feminine words as marked when masculine words aren’t (e.g. patro “father”, patrino “mother”). It also lacks a genderless personal pronoun distinct from the one used for inanimate objects, much as English does.

Who actually uses Esperanto?

While Esperanto has no official affiliation to any language family, is it generally based on Indo-European languages. It does not have official language recognition from any country but it is spoken widely in about 115 countries in South America, East Asia and Eastern and Central Europe.

Why is Esperanto problematic?

They consider them as “fake” and lacking culture. Some could argue that Esperanto is a “failed” language that tried to become a lingua franca but didn’t really achieve it. So they again don’t see sense in learning it. And some could dislike the idea of universal language by itself, as threatening to native languages.

How effective is Esperanto?

The experiments conducted and repeated many times at Paderborn went much further, finding that 145 hours of Esperanto is enough, for a French speaker, to reach a level about equivalent to 1500 hours in English or 2000 in German; showing Esperanto is learned 10 to 13 times faster than other languages.

Why don’t people learn Esperanto?

Unlike natural languages, you don’t learn Esperanto because you’re fascinated by a country, people group or location. Outside of a few crackpots who decided to turn their kids into circus acts by raising them with Esperanto as a first language, it has no inter-generational identity or national/tribal history.

Is Esperanto a constructed language?

If you think that Esperanto is just a basic constructed language put together by a language nerd back in the 1800’s that went viral, you’re wrong. I also made the mistake of thinking its purpose was that simple. Unlike other conlangs, Esperanto is 100\% ideologically motivated.

Should Esperanto culture be limited to music and cuisine?

To limit it to things like music and cuisine is insanely ignorant and unfortunately indicative of how a lot of modern progressives treat culture even outside the Esperanto community.

What is esperantistan like to live in?

2. Esperantistan is an ideologically homogenous landscape. Wherever you travel, you meet people of all different persuasions. No matter what language you learn, you’ll meet speakers all the time from the far left to the far right of the political spectrum. You’ll also meet non-believers, nominal believers, the devout and the extreme.