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Old 06-30-2009, 04:22 AM   #18130 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Esoteric View Post
I think Latin is such an exquisite language.
Man, I'm trying to tackle learning most of the prominent Romantic Languages right now; it's really slow-going, as my Spanish is rusty, my French is Anglicized, and my Portuguese and Italian are derived from me thinking in Spanish/English first, so it's fraught with subject/verb misplacement.

And those insufferable conjugations! I might never get to Japanese, but for those that took Latin in practice, the enunciation of the language is very similar, save for the sometimes silent "U"s and extra "O"s.
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