Many Esperanto speakers are very happy with their choice to learn Esperanto. Read what they say:

"My experience of using Esperanto has undergone a lot of change: I initially learned it out of linguistic curiosity only, a kind of bet with myself to see whether I could learn it really fast without investing too much time. Then, for a long time I only used it online (and on two occasions in Berlin and Beijing) and it became a language for penpals from other cultures. Then however I met my boyfriend through Esperanto and we attend Esperanto events together, so Esperanto has also become a secret language between us and a language for fun activities. Finally, I joined the board of the organization E@I, who are doing modern educational projects on the internet and their working language is Esperanto, so Esperanto has even become a language of work - and the language to use on many free international trips that I'm now getting. I never thought learning Esperanto would add this much to my life." -- Judith Meyer, Germany

"I'm an American college student who only first learned about Esperanto when I was 18, in the summer after my freshmen year in college. I had taken German all through high school, and still really struggled at an introduction course to German Literature. I began casually studying Esperanto at lernu.net, and then did an email correspondence course. After a month, I got in contact with a nearby Esperanto family, and they offered to take me along with them, free of charge, to the ELNA Kongreso 2006. After four days of virtual immersion in Esperanto, I was pretty much conversational, and that was really exciting. I headed a little study group at my college the following semester, and now I'm studying abroad in Shanghai, China, and I'm making Esperantist friends here too!" -- Oren, USA

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