> In general I find that the speakers from Asia have to try harder to be understood because of the reduced shared vocabulary and different phonetics. It seems m

> In general I find that the speakers from Asia have to try harder to be understood because of the reduced shared vocabulary and different phonetics. It seems much easier for a speaker of Spanish or Italian. That's because esperanto is pretty much latin + german + russian. That's the roots of the esperanto. Esperanto was a silly attempt to "unify" europe via a single language. The article was rather silly. But I guess it was written by esperanto fanatic who wants to spread esperanto. It'll never happen - lest of all in asia, but the best of luck to him.