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[–] dare_you_to_be_real 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Dude obviously has way more time and effort invested in Esperanto than I probably ever will, so it's hard to really criticize him. If I went to an Esperanto convention, I'd expect everyone to speak Esperanto, or at least try to. Getting mad at that would be like going to an Apple convention and expecting their to be Linux or Windows booths. I'm not a linguist. Most topics of study came pretty easy to me, but despite growing up in foreign countries, I always had trouble with languages. I think that I will be able to pick up Esperanto. I will continue to try for some months. If I was expected to learn a totally different foreign language, I don't think that I could. I know that languages are one of the gateways into different cultures, but I don't think you have to have any fluency in some places language to get a lot out of a short visit.