It's not perfect, but practically it's still the best option. Of all the candidates for an easy to learn international language, it has by at least an order of

It's not perfect, but practically it's still the best option. Of all the candidates for an easy to learn international language, it has by at least an order of magnitude the most speakers and materials. For example, the Esperanto wikipedia is larger than the Arabic one. I also haven't seen any of the other conlangs demonstrate they can be both as expressive and easy to master.