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That's an interesting choice of analogy; there's some evidence that's not necessarily the best approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esp

• yorwba 8y ago
  No, there isn't, at least not in that article. If you actually read the studies referenced, you'll notice that none of them actually support the claim that learning Esperanto first is better than just starting with your actual target language directly. Learning Esperanto can speed up learning another language with shared vocabulary, but not so much that it offsets the initial time investment of learning Esperanto. Given how often it seems to be used to perpetuate dubious claims about Esperanto's almost-magical benefits, I'll need to find some time to completely rewrite that Wikipedia article. For now I'll just link to a review of one of the studies I wrote up a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848019