> Esperanto's phonology is very
> difficult (only slavic-speaking people can master it
> without training,
> and maybe Germans).
What! All those fancy "s" stuff in Esperanto can be found in English
too. As native finnish speaker I think esperanto phonology is too hard
if your mother tang doesn't belong to indo-"european" languages.
>
> The strangest thing about all this is that
> whereas Esperanto's
> phonology is nearly impossible to master for Asian
> people, most of the
> new Esperantists that appear nowadays are Asian, and
> the current
> president of the UEA (who can be considered nearly
> as the president of
> all the Esperanto movement) is even Korean, and
> speaks a very good
> Esperanto. Sometimes reality is even more incredible
> than sci-fi.
>
> >
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