Reply #3: I took a year of Finnish in college

[Dookus]

and liked it, but yes, it's somewhat daunting.

The hardest language I studied was Arabic. I don't believe people actually make those sounds. Seemed like a put-on. There's like three "k" sounds... one normal, one made deep in the throat, and the third evidently made by causing your spleen to slam into your diaphragm. I never mastered that one.

Plus there's 28 letters, each written three different ways depending on its position in the word, and then there are dozens of types of script.

My friend and I who took the class together were the only two who hadn't previously studied Hebrew, so that made it especially hard for us.