Don == Don HARLOW < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it writes:     Don I think you mean few

Rosalind == Rosalind Walter < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it writes:     Rosalind Where are you going to find proficient speakers of     Rosalind English in China?   Everywhere.  In every city of  a certain size  or larger, you can find such speakers.     Rosalind In all too few parts of that country. There are much less Esperanto speakers than English speakers in China. (Do  you  have actual   figures?)    Even the spekaers of   Cantonese, Minnanese or Shanghainese  (which are not  official languages and  are usually not  considered   national  or  major  languages)   outnumbers Esperanto speakers.     Rosalind There are very few proficient speakers of any language     Rosalind who do not waste time speaking broken, heavily accented     Rosalind English which I find difficult to understand. Will broken, heavily accented Esperanto be easier to understand?

By absorbing experience through repeated trials and errors.     Jens I can't tell a monolingual Chinese anything, I don't know     Jens enough Chinese.  And if I did, we wouldn't need Esperanto to     Jens communicate with anyway. So, Esperanto would worth nothing if you knew Chinese? Only if I had to deal with Chinese customers all the time.

Rosalind == Rosalind Walter < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it writes:     Rosalind Mi montras, ke la sama vorto en la franca ne havas la     Rosalind saman signifon, kiun vi donis.  Do konfuzo.