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There are a number of languages that I'm curious about.  I grew up speaking English, I studied Spanish in college (though I've forgotten a good bit of it by now), and I took a short course in conversational Japanese (and I remember enough to say "Good morning" and that sort of thing).  I'd be interested in seeing what Finnish is like, simply because even though it's a European language, it's not a member of the Indo-European language family -- so it presumably bears no resemblance to Italian, German, etc. (other than some words borrowed from them).

I'd also like to brush up on my Spanish, and in fact I started to do that a while back, but then I had to stop for a while and haven't yet gotten back to it.  So apparently my biggest limiting factor is neither time nor money (in fact, the language site I was using is free), but rather momentum or something of that sort.

The site that I mentioned is www.Duolingo.com -- they have lessons available in many languages (including a few made-up ones like Esperanto and Klingon), and they don't charge any fees.  I found it helpful for re-learning Spanish, but they start you out with a quiz to find out how much (or how little) of the language you know already, so if you're a complete beginner, they'll start you at the very beginning.

 

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