[Freak_NL]

> Attempts such as Esperanto and others were never carried out with enough skills or resources.

That is a dubious claim. The truth of the matter is that there is no economic benefit in learning Esperanto over learning English as a second language, and (comparatively) very little cultural benefit. Learning English unlocks a vast world of literature, media, and communication in addition to the basic marketable skill its proficiency entails. Esperanto? Not so much.

The only way to force the use of Esperanto or any artificial language is to force children to learn it worldwide. That's something you might expect in North Korea (if they were so inclined), but most people would rightly dismiss it as a mostly pointless exercise.

[chillacy]

It’s worth noting that esperanto predates the era of English as an international language. Back when Zamenhof designed esperanto, French was the closest thing to an international language that unlocked the vast world of literature, media, culture, etc.

[visarga]

It's even harder to learn a universal language if you can always turn to Google Translate.

[andrewzah]

You can't. Gtranslate is absolute rubbish for Japanese and Korean, in my experience. It only really works on simple sentences, converted to English.

It does not generate formality levels correctly or consistently at all, so if you translate multiple sentences it can go from non-formal and non-polite to very formal and polite.

English is more or less a universal language, and esperanto will never achieve anything other than being a toy language for nerds. It's neat, but that's all it is. You would be better served learning Mandarin, English, Spanish, or German.