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i somehow can't get myself to really learn a language until i take a class. i'm not terribly disciplined. i've also found that the whole endeavor is largely fruitless unless you speak it every day -- i doubt i remember half the spanish i learned from four semesters of taking it. nonetheless i'm taking chinese in the fall -- that should be fun.
speaking of languages, i'm making one up -- it has its own alphabet and everything. it's called "plarthlakh" -- yes, that's the "kh" from the back of the throat like you hear in arabic and hebrew. here are some sample phrases, transliterated into the roman alphabet:
"chexhqrst." --hello. (the "xh" is the click from the xhosa language; the "q" is from the back of the throat, again borrowed from arabic.)
"ztan lrt pa?" -- how are you?
"beml lra." -- i'm well.
"qsbch lra." -- i'm ok.
"zme beml lra." -- i'm not well.
"xtht plarthlakh pa?" -- do you speak plarthlakh? (the "x" sounds like the english k.)
"xhab." -- yes.
"zmekh." -- no.
...i have way too much free time.
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