Hey, I have a german friend from nursing school.....of course she would be proud to say she speaks like a cat coughing up a hairball. But, then she's crazy like me.....thats why we're friends!
Esperanto is a language concocted by a bunch of people with too much time on their hands, too much idealism and way too much hope that humans would ever give up their petty nationalisms.
Oh BTW, did I ever mention that I was an optimistic cynic!