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True - unfair and no reason to believe that learning the basics is all that well correlated to fluency. Still, a bit of evidence that it's plausible that Esperanto is that much easier.
In any case, I ran across a bit of evidence just today that it won't matter: Pilot Translation Kit claims it'll ship in May.