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I've always been fascinated by the Russian language.

Also German for obvious reasons.

I've always been fascinated by the Russian language. Also German for obvious reasons.

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Frisian, Breton, Basque, Latin, Etruscan (which may just be an ancient version of Russian), many more.

I'm fascinated by old, disappearing and dead languages - wondering what information is hidden within their words and phrases. A pity that becoming fluent in a language takes so much time.

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Learn English it's disappearing fast and becoming Nog Latin.

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I have a Russian Grammar book that I haven't read yet but that I might find time for. There is a lot of Russian literature I'd like to read in the original language and people like Pavel Tsautsouline have made me interested in Russian culture.

I know some Spanish and have started reading it more lately. I like the stories by Borges and the poetry of Jose Marti the Cuban poet. It's also a great pleasure to read Don Quixote in the original language, lots of linguistic jokes.

Learning something completely different from English would be interesting but I would want to pick something that had material I would want to read, ancient as well as contemporary. Even ancient English/Norse would be cool to learn, read Beowulf in the original, etc.

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German is cool and shit, but it is basically English with a different lexicon.

I learned a little bit of Hindi back in the day, and it was interesting as fuck. They don't have any articles in that language. Articles as in the part of speech, like a, an, the. Totally off the wall.

And all their references to time use the same word for the future as the past. Like "Kal" means tomorrow, but also yesterday? There are definitely certain context clues that let you know what time they are referring to, but I never got that far.

I'd like to learn Swahili, so I could know how much more retarded their language is.

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Thing I thought most interesting about Hindi was their script is very literal. If it’s written a certain way it’s pronounced exactly that way.

Another is only one corner speaks, reads and writes formal hindi. The rest use and know it but if you ask or use formal hindi they don’t know wtf you’re talking about.

So if you actually book learn hindi. 80% of the formal grammar and words and technicality of the language you won’t see or be understood in 75% of the country.

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So if you actually book learn hindi. 80% of the formal grammar and words and technicality of the language you won’t see or be understood in 75% of the country.

10% of casual Hindi communication has to consist of English at this point.

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German and Python

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Latin and any language of any country I’d like to move to

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Pig Latin to communicate more effectively with the majority of the new inclusive police diversity hires.

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Pig Latin actually requires knowing real English, and the intellectual horsepower to encode and decode.

PIDGIN is what I assume you mean, and has many local dialects, although Chinglish is the most well known

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Aye no dat won!

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I believe that specific sub dialect is known as blackanese. Different from ebonics, in that the north American indigenous style negro is more often found speaking ebonics.

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Sanskrit.

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why?

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It's a reference to a dumb movie called PCU.

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Sanskrit is pretty easy to learn. Just start talking Latin and shove a roti in your mouth.

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I loved that movie....Jeremy Pivon killed it...

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sanskrit.. so i can read for myself those 50 thousand some clay tablets they found on Iraq.

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... they are mostly shipping manifests. you're going to be disappointed.

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I've taught myself some Russian, but didn't carry it through since there was no one to practice with ( purely for my own edification) and I would like to get back to it.

Part of learning Cyrillic is now using that knowledge to try Greek.

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