Originally Posted By: BranShea
[i] When you speak of 2000 "native speakers" that would be 2000 bilingual speakers? I suppose.

More likely three-lingual. All Esperantists are bilingual by construction, they become three or four-lingual later, when they travel abroad to meet their acquaintance. The fastest way to multilingualism is through Esperanto.
Unfortunately EU, in spite of its program to promote multilingualism, is opposed to Esperanto, on the ground of its alleged lack of culture, limited vocabulary and other false reasons. The English-speaking elite is afraid to set up any experiment that would disprove the claims of Esperantists.
Increasing the number of native speakers of Esperanto is not the objective at all, it's a side effect.

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