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A Chinese would rather learn English and trade with most of the world (then Spanish, and trade with 400M people), than learn Esperanto even if it's "easier."

Besides, once you've learned Chinese, any European language with an alphabet looks easy to learn.

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> Besides, once you've learned Chinese, any European language with an alphabet looks easy to learn.

Well, there is the fact that Chinese children learn Pinyin (Chinese romanization) in school. Of course Pinyin attributes different sounds to the letters of the alphabet than Western European languages do, but at least they've already seen the characters when they start learning.

Current state of affairs is understandable. I was answering to the points regarding Esperanto rationale.

Then again, there is a lot of grades of "easy" - like 10 months easy vs 5 years easy.

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