Whether Dr. Phillipson alluded favourably to Esperanto in his much praised work ‘English-only Europe’ or in one of his equally brilliant presentations in various languages easily found online, I can’t recall. The excerpt below lit up my screen straight after I’d heard all of his Youtube presentation cited here at Language on the Move and had seen a famous Al Jazeera interview hosted eruditely and politely by Riz Khan between Dr. Phillipson and Robert McCrum

‘Zamenhof was so appalled by the inhumanity of nationalism and capitalist imperialism that he devised a peace movement and an interlocking language movement. Esperanto is a reality in the crisis-ridden modern world in which the need for more social justice is equally acute. Strengthening the rights of speakers of all languages is a cause that Esperanto contributes to substantially. Decision-makers ought to take it more seriously.’

I’d bet London to a brick were Baha’is allowed to wager that Dr. Phillipson still admires the human rights dimensions of policies practised and printed by the Universal Esperanto Association on its multifarious non-political, non-religious, non-aligned and pro-indigenous platforms around the world

Thank you so much for your comment, Prof. Phillipson.
I’m so happy to hear your supportive and positive comment on my analysis, and so grateful for sharing the youtube link “myths about global English” which highlights many points that I will address in my current study about ‘ideologies of English language teaching and learning in Saudi Arabia”.

I really appreciate your comment. Thanks a lot.