Union Mundial pro Interlingua

"Interlingua es un lingua international facile e de aspecto natural elaborate per linguistas professional como un denominator commun del linguas le plus diffundite in le mundo in le dominios del scientia, cultura, commercio, etc. Un texto in interlingua es immediatemente intelligibile a milliones de personas in tote le mundo, sin necessitate de studio previe."

This is amazing: a language that I instantly understand without having studied it! Yet I doubt the monolingual English speaker could understand it quite so easily. It seems like it's really just Italian with some simplification of grammar and some words from other Romance languages thrown into the mix.