Excerpt you have over a billion people with whom you can communicate vs. the 18 people that speak Esperanto. 6 months of Mandarin and you can order food and hav

Excerpt you have over a billion people with whom you can communicate vs. the 18 people that speak Esperanto. 6 months of Mandarin and you can order food and have a reasonably simply conversation with a Chinese person. 6 months of Esperanto and you can have a detailed conversation with someone that probably already speaks English, statistically speaking. Esperanto isn’t opening up any cultural doors. At least learning Klingon gets you some legit nerd points at Comic Con. Esperanto doesn’t really give you anything.