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Originally Posted by Brillopad

I don't know - maybe one day I'll be brave enough to take on Russian, it does look an interesting language.

Apparently learning a language is a good way of keeping your brain active when you get older and helps fend off dementia. As my mother was recently diagnosed with this it has really got me thinking.

The only language I'm really interested in learning is Japanese, but that really does seem too complex . I was OKish at high school level French but beyond that I'm definitely not a linguist.

My wife's first degree was French so she's fluent in that, functional in German and also has some Russian and Arabic. Some people just seem to pick it up so easily. It's not fair .