Ludwik Zamenhof was a Polish doctor who dreamed of world peace.
Born in 1859, in a region where multiple languages were spoken and ethnic conflicts were frequent, he came to believe that most of the world’s problems were caused by our inability to communicate with each other in a common tongue.
“I was taught that all people were brothers,” he said.
And so Zamenhof created a new international language called Esperanto. Using a hybrid of existing European languages, he devised a simple grammar and vocabulary that anyone could learn easily.
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