A International Language: Joke or Not?

The lingua franca of 21th century has been and still is English. As may it
seems like a good thing at the first glance, the more you see the damage it
brought upon other languages you might change your view. There are 6,909
languages, not even counting dialects, in the world that are still spoken. But
more then half of them will stop breathing. Most of them will be replaced by
the dominant language in that region. And this brings us to need for a real
international language.
Before English, French was the language spoken between high-class
people. But as we all know today, French no longer holds that title. And
probably English is destined to same fate. It may be replaced by Chinese,
maybe by Spanish.
Before I carry on, I would like to give some distinct trait of Chinese. It has 4
tones and a very complicated writing system that requires you to know at
least 2000 characters to read a newspaper. Doesn't sound easy, does it?
Many people tried to create a language that will be the bridge between many
cultures but many of them failed. They are called auxiliary languages. Most of
known of them are Esperanto, Interlingua and ,who would thought, Klingon.
Yes the language of warrior specie of Star Trek. But because of it's created
specially for TV show we won't be talking about it. What we will talk about is
Esperanto.
Esperanto was created by Dr. Zamenhof. At first language didn't have a
name, so speakers used the pseudonym of Zamenhof "Esperanto" which
means the one who hopes. It has 2 million fluent speaker and it could had
more speaker if the WW2 hadn't happened. In the early 20's Esperanto was
thriving all around the Europe but starting in 30s Adolf Hitler and Joseph
Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-nationalistic
tendencies. The teaching of Esperanto was not allowed in German prisonerof-war camps during World War II. Esperantists sometimes were able to get
around the ban by convincing guards that they were teaching Italian, the
language of Germany's closest ally. And Zamenhof's children were put in
concentration camps by Nazi Germany and sadly they didn't survive.
Even upon all this difficulties Esperanto survived. And it's growing. You may
ask why. Well for some because of it's history of spreading peace and for
some because it's easy. 100 hours of studying Esperanto roughly equals to
2000 hours of studying English. And because of being easy it gives it's
speaker the chance of being equal to a native speaker, a chance that many
languages doesn't give.
It also let other languages to live on because it's politically neutral. So what
are you waiting for go learn it and spread peace around the world.