> His advice is to spend just a few weeks learning and having conversations in Esperanto, so that you can feel the experience of detaching from your mother tong

> His advice is to spend just a few weeks learning and having conversations in Esperanto, so that you can feel the experience of detaching from your mother tongue. Then you’ll be better-prepared to go learn the language you really want to learn. Ah, the Paderborn method: [0]. If you only speak your native tongue, and you want to learn another language, first learn Esperanto, then learn your target language. You'll actually learn the target language faster than if you had studied it straight away! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn_method