I have stickers on it, some of them hand drawn by my daughters.

Diploma or not, i feel if you want to learn one language to get around in the world, there are many better options than esperanto. English one of them but hey, spanish would work too, if you go to south america… I also think english by now is a common treasure for humanity, and not related to one country or empire. It evolved into a simple enough language so that you can very easily pick it up to a level where you can get around in most of the world. Anyhow, i wish all the best to all ppl learning esperanto, I’ll keep on struggling with my Dutch, and then maybe spanish or turkish :)

That’s wonderful, but hardly relevant :) My point was: creating a language specifically for easing comms between people, and then have 2 million people speak that language out of 8 bln, while there are multiple other general use languages that are spoken by billions of ppl, just doesn’t make sense. Case in point: we have this conversation in one of those, and it’s neither your, nor my native tongue.

2 million out of 8 billion is kind of an issue.