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Adam Wik

Thanks for the comment Brian! I'm not sure the assertions about the President and broad generalizations about who learns what are necessarily true. My professional opinion as a linguist is also that Esperanto is probably never going to catch on as a global lingua franca any more than Volapuk, Interlingua, Lojban, Sindarin, Klingon, Na'Vi or Dothraki.
It's a fantastic idea, but people have been trying to do so since the 1800s to no avail. People will use whatever language is convenient and dominant which right now in the business world is English. My weak prediction is that in 100 years or so it may be Mandarin, but who knows.
Even so, the Lernu site you linked to (which is actually down at the time of writing this) seems to be a convenient and - most importantly - free resource for learning Esperanto. While I doubt Esperanto will ever live up to the aspirations of its origins studying it for a few weeks definitely can help prime learners to tackle a language they're more interested in.
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