Language is interesting. French is far more accessible to an English-speaker than Finnish, since it's more closely related. Of all the languages I've studied, the one I actually had the easiest time with was Russian, because the spelling is reasonably phonetic most of the time once you learn Cyrillic, and the word order is close enough to that of English. German, despite vocabulary similarities, was the hardest to get right since the sentence structure is backwards from what my brain wants.

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