Has anyone here ever tried learning Esperanto to help in their language studies?

[clep3705]

This reminds me of the argument that learning Latin helps you to learn other languages. Notice that fewer and fewer schools offer Latin. Learning Latin isn't going to help you learn Asian or African languages. If you learn Latin before learning a western European language, the knowledge of Latin will help. But it is more efficient in terms of total time and effort to skip Latin and learn the other language directly.

Learn Esperanto to learn Esperanto, not to learn something else.