I’ve been learning Esperanto for around two years now, and read/write fairly well but definitely need to practice my listening. It’s really nice to see some more comrades interested in Esperanto, as it’s often a very Liberal space. There was a lot of anti-China rhetoric coming out of some of the r/esperanto and r/memeoj subreddits at times, back when I used reddit, and the few times I commented I was downvoted a fair bit for voicing a pro-China, pro-Communist stance. It also seems like IKEK isn’t particularly active, and lately I’ve not even been able to load the website.

I think the criticisms of the language itself are indeed valid, what with it being Eurocentric, but its goals of (relative) neutrality should be lauded and it says something that China has supported Esperanto to some extent; I’ve also heard it argued that Esperanto is easier for non-Europeans to learn than other, natural, European languages because of its simplicity in comparison. It’s certainly made me a lot more confident in going out and learning other languages, and has been the first language-learning effort I’ve made where I’ve stuck at it enough to see serious progress. I can write fairly complexly, although word-building from roots doesn’t come fluidly to me.

All in all, I’m a fan of Esperanto and it’s become part of my daily life, although I’ve been a bit of a hermit and mostly been chewing through literature and writing prose in the language rather than conversing.