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There are countless languages in this world.

One is spoken by only a couple of people, another is by over a billion three hundred million.

One sounds very beautiful, another sounds very powerful.

I sometimes dream if I could speak them all.

Unfortunately, however, it is impossible for a person to be fluent in all of them.

So, when two or more people whose mother language isn't the same talk with each other, they use one language, such as English or French, as a common language.

But using a natural language as such causes some problems.

Firstly, a natural language has its native speakers.

That means that particular people have a great advantage when speaking it as a common language.

Secondly, a natural language is often irregular.

For instance, English words spell very irregularly.

The word "enough" is an example.

Though it contains "g", you never pronounce this sound.

Thus, I stumbled on an idea of creating an artificial language.

As some of you know, however, one has been already created.

A Polish oculist, Ludwik Lezjer Zamenhof, realized what I was thinking about over a hundred and twenty years ago and created Esperanto.

No sooner had I found its existence than I dabbled at it.

I soon realized that Esperanto is very regular as far as I glanced through.

Moreover, you don't have to remember as many words as you have to do English ones.

For example, you say "granda" for "big," and "malgranda" for "small." "Dekstra" for "right," and "maldekstra" for "left." The prefix "mal" added to the beginning of a word changes its meaning into the opposite.

One important thing he taught us is that it was not impossible to create a new language.

If you're now learning a very hard language and feel it might be impossible to master it, please remember this; a language is not only for being learnt but also for being made by you.