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From: dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune)
Subject: Re: which should I learn now?
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philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:

>In article <3gsm70$8ai@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
>           buttrcup@expert.cc.purdue.edu "Nine Inch Nails" writes:
>> See, I'm weird, and I like learning languages
>> 
>> Hard ones.

>Navaho is reputed to be quite hard (although I don't know it). 

Good advice; if you're in the US and want an out-of-the-way language,
I think Navaho is indeed the best choice.  It is about as un-English
as you can get; it is structurally and phonetically totally alien
(lexically any non-IE language is alien); there is good teaching
material for it; there are some 120000 people who actually speak it in
your own country; and it IS plenty hard!  I don't know about
literature and/or newspapers; I think there is a radio station, though.

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