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[ysobel]

...I am ridiculously tempted to learn Swahili.

Well, "learn". Use duolingo for, anyway.

Edit: the duolingo course has no audio. Sadface. Back to something else.

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[rydra_wong]

DOOOO IIIIIT.

I dabbled briefly (with Rosetta Stone rather than duolingo), and I am very bad at languages but it was fascinating to dip into something so structurally different from European languages.

[ysobel]

It is awesome -- but the duolingo course doesn't have audio :/ and while apparently the pronunciation is relatively straightforward, I like the auditory reinforcement.

So I am back to doing Japanese instead. Because *that* makes sense, lol. (It doesn't. But neither did welsh. I'm doing this for fun, not for any practical purpose, so why not.). I've gotten hiragana to the point where I can at least sound it out -- it's not as solid as even Cyrillic is, and my Cyrillic is pretty rusty -- but I can manage. Of course I still have katakana to learn, and kanji, as well as tons of other stuff, but eh. Like I said, I'm doing this for fun.

...I possibly have weird definitions of fun, lol.

[rydra_wong]

Because *that* makes sense, lol. (It doesn't. But neither did welsh. I'm doing this for fun, not for any practical purpose, so why not.)

But it does make sense! If you're doing it out of pure interest rather than for a practical reason, then it's going to be especially interesting to pick languages which are outside the main European language family that (white) Westerners tend to have more familarity with.