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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Aaaaand that would be me

Countless hours of German and French and at best a few words remain

Time well spent?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    I took German in high school and forgot it all immediately. A decade later I found myself in India studying Malayalam, the language of Kerala which is the southern-most state in the country. Very hard language to learn but as I was learning its formal grammar I was like, wait a minute this is very familiar. Turns out a German monk in the 19th Century visited Kerala and gave Malayalam its first formal grammar, which was basically just German's grammar. So it wasn't totally useless.

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