I haven't seen it rain this hard for this long around here in at least a decade. Wow.
I'm no expert, but I think the water is supposed to stay outside.
@jussipekonen 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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@jussipekonen In any event, the only advantage that either Finnish or Hungarian has for non-native speakers is that it isn't Basque. :-)
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@jussipekonen Yes, but I'm reminded of what was once said about the difference between the two Finno-Ugric languages Finnish and Hungarian: "They were once the same language, but the Finns took all the vowels."
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@kdfrawg I'm reminded of an interview I saw once with the former L.A. radio personality Michael Jackson (no, not that Michael Jackson, the one from South Africa) who was asked if he'd ever thought of returning "home," and he said no, because "now I've got kids who talk funny."
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@kdfrawg That's true, although I think the Californian accent comes closest to the more-or-less-neutral "sounds-like-they-were-born-in-a-TV-studio" accent that most broadcasters over here have learned to use.
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