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Re:Esperanto is finding new life online by klipt on Friday May 29, 2015 @05:24PM (#9627553)
There's research showing that one year of Esperanto followed by three of French leads to greater French fluency than four years of French: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
Re:Esperanto is finding new life online by psychometry on Friday May 29, 2015 @05:39PM (#9627645)
Those studies included tutelage in the structure of language as part of their Esperanto instruction, so the same benefit might exist simply by modifying students' language curricula.