What are some unexpected or unknown benefits from learning Esperanto?

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If you immerse yourself in early Esperanto literature (before World War II), you end up learning a lot about Mitteleuropa high culture—and indirectly, a fair bit of German. There’s a lot of Heine, and a lot of emulating of Heine. Esperanto poetry is also a whole lot more formalist than English-language poetry (another Mitteleuropa thing), so you learn early that a Shakespearean sonnet is not a proper sonnet.

Answered 2016-09-23
[Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-are-some-unexpected-or-unknown-benefits-from-learning-Esperanto/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

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