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[dutchpink]

Once I get down Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Finnish, I'll be good.

Whooo.

PS no one speaks Esperanto.

I can't wait until Aaron gets back so I can stop carrying my cell phone around with me, eager to hear that 30 seconds of static that could potentially contain his voice. :(

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[ti_ana]

Esperanto kinda freaks me out. The people I've seen involved in the movement are kinda... cult-ish. I'm all for linguistic diversity! Lol. Hell, as an aspiring translator, it'll be what brings food to *my* table. ;-)

And take German, German's fun! :-D

[dutchpink]

German and I get along from time to time. I find it remarkably easy whenever I try to learn anything, but it's also so... ugly. I mean... I dunno. I think it's wicked cute when my American friend speaks German though because he's really good at it, and when Danilo does. :) So I like it sometimes. I just always feel like I should know German, so I guess I'll get on that.

[ti_ana]

Yeah, I like it when Danilo speaks it too. It sounds really pretty when my professor speaks it. I guess it depends on the speaker, because I don't think I've ever found it ugly-sounding. Except maybe whenever I hear old recordings of Hitler, he makes it sound like he's spitting half the time. ;-)
German is not "easy", the grammar is pretty insane when you're first picking it up, but once you get the hang of it, it's actually not that bad and highly logical (not to mention pretty regular).

[dutchpink]

I think there are hard and easy points to the grammar- some of it is like... "We used to do this in English but now we don't. Same with this, this, and this." So I can kind of figure it out, sometimes. I just hate the 3 gender thing. Not a big fan when I took Latin, nor am I now. For all the shit I say about Finnish being impossible, it has no gender or articles. Bless the Finns!

[ti_ana]

Oh, yeah. I can never memorize the genders, there's no way of knowing like Spanish, where (usually) "a" is feminine and "o" masuline. What kills German the most is the cases. If you took Latin, it's something similar, except German only has 4 cases and the word order does matter.