You just don ' t get it do you ? <| sep |> I was interested in this long ago . It has a reasonably regular and logical structure , and it is based on European languages , so it is relatively easy to get to the stage where you can struggle through an article with a dictionary at your side . But building the vocabulary to the stage when you don ' t need the dictionary is something else , and getting familiar enough with it to handle spoken Esperanto at normal speed is something else again I never got to that stage , and I think it would have taken me a lot of practice . But these days all the world ' s information is accessible to you through the internet if you speak English . This makes English so much more valuable that I think that , for nonEnglish speakers , learning English should be their first target . So there is little incentive for English speakers .