[LadyDoc]

Esperanto is biased to European languages.

So if your primary language is Mandarin, Tagalog, a Bantu dialect, or another non Indo European language, it will be as hard to learn as basic English.

But the main problem is that it has Marxist roots and is taught as a way to push a one world language.

https://www.theindy.org/article/3600

[Does so]

“Tagalog”
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Pronounced tah-GAH-log, a nurse corrected me in hospital...