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Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome. Legolas Send a noteboard - 05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM
If I had more free time I just might try Quechua, too. Magyar has no interest to me whatsoever - it's in the category of languages that I consider "completely devoid of interest" for me. That list includes Japanese, pretty much all the modern languages of India and Southeast Asia (i.e., I'm intrigued by Sanskrit), Magyar, Finnish, really all the Nordic languages, most of the Bantu languages (other than Swahili), Japanese and Korean.


Agreed about Japanese and particularly Korean, though.
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I should correct myself... Tim - 02/01/2010 08:49:21 PM 781 Views
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fnords!!!!! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM 712 Views
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I failed my challenge. Rebekah - 01/01/2010 11:13:59 PM 807 Views
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Possibly. It'd probably be worth checking what he meant. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 10:59:32 AM 305 Views
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I have. Jessie - 11/01/2010 01:59:45 AM 791 Views
Excellent. (spoilers) Legolas - 11/01/2010 04:31:17 PM 683 Views
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