[sionnsar]

Sounds like you speak several languages. I’ve never been able to learn anything but English, which has always sort of bothered me.

My wife speaks 13. 20 years ago I was a complete monoglot, my high-school German having withered from disuse.

But on a lark I took a year of Latin -- it was an eye-opener and *really* helped when I started learning Gaelic a few years later, even though the languages are unrelated and *extremely* different.

The biggest difficulty with reading Arabic, as far as I can tell (I am slowly learning the Farsi alphabet which is similar but seemingly a bit simpler) is that letters often come in three forms: initial (beginning a word), medial (within a word) and terminal (end of the word). They're all related, but modified for cursive-like writing.

[grey_whiskers]

My wife speaks 13. 20 years ago I was a complete monoglot, my high-school German having withered from disuse.

But on a lark I took a year of Latin -- it was an eye-opener and *really* helped when I started learning Gaelic a few years later, even though the languages are unrelated and *extremely* different.

I am *DEEPLY* respectful and jealous.

(Congrats to you for landing such a fine woman...)

Cheers!