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Before english became the world's international language, that sentiment I think was pretty strong. Now there's no doubt about english as being the international language. I most recently witnessed a japanese speaker and korean speaker who were chatting and when one used an esperanto word the other didn't know, they found the meaning by saying the english word (even though their english wasn't great).

I haven't met many esperantists who don't speak English at all or even at a pretty decent level.

It seems for most the new goal is to participate in esperanto culture, which is definitely its own thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumism