I ended up being more interested in the histories of languages and following word roots as they passed from culture to culture, and era to era, and their relationships with the Mythologies of various cultures as those also passed along. So the actual extensive learning of any particular language sort of fell to the side

. Though I did become reasonably adept at (reading) German, and at least making some sense out of the other Germanic languages and Old and Middle English.
Living now in California, Spanish has become more familiar to me. And though I don't have a solid linguistic foundation, I know enough words to get by picking up the gist of something written, or to (barely

) communicate with a Spanish speaker who also knows a few words of English.
I think learning to appreciate and communicate in other languages is "awesome" (dude-speak

). I think everyone should give it a go. And I've always wished I could speak a dozen languages, but never had the endurance to really do it

.
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