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I've heard good things about Indonesian/Malay. It probably helps it was a regional lingua franca for a long time.
English was legit the best choice in Europe - analytic, with vocabulary drawn from a couple major families, and (almost) no grammatical gender. If only we could unfuck the orthography...
I feel like Indonesian is what Esperanto could've been.
Lojban, or Toki Pona for shits and giggles.
Esperanto. Logical. Clear. Easy.
Mi amas Esperanton!
Globasa. A constructed language, but with most world language families represented, and a process that ensures new words meet a few other good criteria.
Barring that, toki pona.
Esperanto, Ido, Indonesian, or Afrikaans.
Sanskrit.
French, we could all be a little more french when keeping our leaders on a leash
Esperanto! Yes, there are better conlangs, yes, it's eurocentric, and yes, there are ways to improve it or even come up with something better. But it has a cool history, it's tied to socialist movements and anarchist movements, it is fairly easy to learn (especially for speakers of European languages), it's grammar is super simple, it uses a system of root words and affixes that make me think of Legos, and it has real, native speakers already, meaning it is a living language that has changed over time, and is fully capable of being used exclusively to communicate efficiently.
Plus, the fascists fucking hate it
Plus, the fascists fucking hate it
Lol was waiting for this kick-back
Something with a consistent phonetic alphabet, like Korean with hangol.
Esperanto. it's not the statisically-average best lingua franca but it's the best known that's not tied to a single nation. Plus Hitler and Stalin both hated it.
I feel like Indonesian is a decent start. There are already a lot of people speaking it, and it's REALLY easy to learn.
There's no conjugation and no cases/agreement. I'm a native English speaker and picked up a functional amount of Indonesian in a matter of months, just from reading a couple books before we went.
Gaeilge just to fuck with the brits. We all have to write it in ogham too, I don't care how inconvenient it might be.
That or serbo-croatian because we are all serbs anyway
Mongolian, just for preparation for when the Mongols rise again. It's just a matter of time.