From Terence Geoghegan

“Esperanto isn't a bad idea, but it has yet to catch on in the mainstream.”
Actually, this is not the case. Esperanto certainly did catch on in the mainstream. In China, there is a weekly newsmagazine in Esperanto with over a million readers. However, the real hotbeds of Esperanto culture were Germany and the Soviet Union, right up until WWII, when both Hitler and Stalin had everyone who spoke the language murdered. (Stalin called it “yatzike shpeeonam” – the “language of spies.”)
When I lived in Europe, I not only met fellow Esperanto-speakers everywhere (I've been to a couple of the “Universalaj Kongresoj”, but even met native speakers of the language–children whose parents did not speak each other's languages, so the child grew up speaking the only common language–Esperanto. (Of course, the child would also speak both parents' native languages as well.)
I turned to Esperanto because after living in Europe for five years, I had had to learn seven languages,and I still couldn't communicate in Greek, Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian, etc. etc., yada yada. I got tired of it–figured I had made enough of an effort, and it was about time someone met me halfway. Esperanto makes that easy. You can learn to speak it well in an hour or so; then you just add vocabulary like in any other language, but in completely regular ways. (Just one brief example–since all nouns end in o, all verb infinitives in i, and all adjectives in a, once you know that bicycle is “biciklo,” you know that “to bicycle” is “bicikli,” and a bicycle shop (”butiko”) would be “bicicla butiko.” What could be simpler?)

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