I have been studying Spanish and I am interest in Esperanto. Is it easy enough to learn at the same time without getting too confusing?

Thanks,
Me

S_R_S5:I have been studying Spanish and I am interest in Esperanto. Is it easy enough to learn at the same time without getting too confusing?

Thanks,
Me

I would say it depends on how far along you are in your spanish studies. If you're a beginner in spanish, then the similarities in vocabulary might cause confusion if you're trying to learn them at the same time. If you've alredy reached a pretty high-intermediate level in spanish i'd guess that you could add in Esperanto without too much difficulty.

If you're a beginner in Spanish, I would strongly suggest you suspend studying Spanish and study Esperanto instead (with the idea of resuming your spanish studies later). There is significant evidence that learning esperanto makes learning additional languages (especially romance languages) vastly easier. So if you learn Esperanto first, you'll be able to learn Spanish with a lot less struggle and frustration later on. Of course learning Spanish first will also help you learn Esperanto to some extent, but you'll struggle a lot more if you choose the Spanish first order.

And really, You can learn Esperanto within 3 months (not to a fluent level necessarily, but to a level that with a dictionary you'll be able to read/write/say just about anything you want. At that point it's just adding vocabulary to reach fluency. Then you can tackle spanish with a vengence as you improve your Esperanto vocabulary by reading books, forum posts, blogs, etc... in Esperanto.

I studied Esperanto and Latin at the same time. I had very few problems with overlap.

Having said that, I have definitely had native-English speaking Esperanto students whose Esperanto was heavily influenced by the Spanish they had studied, but I got the impression that their Esperanto would be heavily influenced by Spanish, whatever order they learned in.

I like awake's advice, but if you really do live in Argentina as your user profile indicates, I understand that you wouldn't want to wait three months to start studying Spanish. In that case, I don't see any problems with studying both concurrently, so long as you try to keep them separate in your mind.

Incidentally, the grammars of these languages are different enough that I think that studying Esperanto and Spanish would be easier than, say, studying Spanish and Italian.