Languages

I went to Poland last year for a meeting, and there was a Czech in the group who said he could understand what the Poles were saying to him in Polish (albeit with difficulty), but that they had a harder time understanding him.Being a Mormon, I served a two-year mission in Taiwan, where I learned to speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese. I've lost a lot of it sense then, but I'm still keeping it up the best I can.I'm trying my hand at Swedish now. I'm already better at reading Swedish than Chinese, but I can't seem to figure out how to pronounce the vowels (Chinese vowels are, surprisingly, more like English vowels than Swedish vowels are).

Hi, Caffeine. BYU supposedly has the most and the best university-level language programs in the country. But, that's just Mormon propaganda, as far as I know. My wife's brother went to Slovakia. And his wife did too, so they can keep it up by speaking it to each other. I'm so jealous: my son refused to learn Chinese from me.

Hi, Caffeine. Check out the Salishan language family. I'm pretty sure that, not only do they have some entire sentences without vowels, but also some entire sentences without any consonants that Indo-European speakers would recognize.