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I speak Danish and English fluently, and German pretty fluently I guess. Know a tiny bit of Spanish as well.

I know English fluently, and I can manage myself in Spanish enough to live in any Spanish Speaking Country.

I'm also able to read Hebrew, but can't speak or understand it.

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Originally Posted by Moon Rabbits

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Originally Posted by scrumpleberry

Latin is freaking easy - the simplicity and perfection of it is the beauty of the language. Anyone can pick it up with a little help.

I don't know what the hell you're on about because Latin is far from easy. There are so many nuances and tiny little things you have to watch out for, and so much memorization, not to mention the endless list of grammatical concepts (ablative absolute, jussive case, subjunctive moods, indirect commands / statements and other ut/ne clauses, participles, infinitives, gerundives ... )

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Originally Posted by scrumpleberry

Personally I don't think it's that nice spoken. But the most likely version is pretty likely seeing as how historians have been working on it for centuries.

I don't like how it sounds spoken either. Actually, to me, some of it sounds really silly and infantile (especially the imperfect tense, and the future tense for the first and second conjugations ... something about "bo" and "bis" and the like).

The thing is, most of the constructs you're referring to are things that you just have to understand. There's no need to identify or reproduce them most of the time. If you have a natural feel for the language, you don't have to think about it unless you run across something that really stumps you. Maybe then you need to think about constructs and subjuncitves. But more often than not, you just need to identify the verb endings, then the cases of any nouns, and then the bloody pronouns (HAET). I don't think it's difficult at all. What I was getting at is more that it makes sense more than most other languages though - it's the closest to perfect, which means that it's the easiest to understand.

Yup. The words themselves aren't particularly elegant...