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by munmaek 2494 days ago
That's not what they're talking about at all. They're talking about learning how to learn a language. Learning a second language gives you meta insight into language learning, which makes it far easier to move onto a third language.

For example, I studied German in college. I never really progressed in it that much, but learning how to learn made learning Korean significantly easier for me. It happens that esperanto can be useful for this as it doesn't have all the small idiosyncrasies and exceptions that real languages have.

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>That's not what they're talking about at all. They're talking about learning how to learn a language.

Huh? I acknowledged that at the start of my comment:

>Some of what you're saying (knowing one language in general helps you learn to learn other languages) is true