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> But you are the native Spanish speaker in my metaphor, not the folks learning Spanish way past the days they had time to learn Spanish in college, trying to build the next greatest Spanish hit song to tell their story (i.e. software app!)

To probably strain the metaphor, native Spanish speakers see this like you're struggling with Spanish so you give up and instead decide to learn Esperanto because it's easier and a few people have sold it as being a good alternative to communicate across cultures. You run off and spend 4 months on Esperanto and have a song written and a catchy tune that is well received, but when the time comes to publish an album for the Spanish speaking world, maybe you've got some notoriety built but you've still got to start over from scratch and learn Spanish. For most people, they aren't going to make a hit song on their first try, they're going to fail and have to try again, so learning those Spanish fundamentals instead of a shortcut might have been a better use of time.