[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

[Andy Vida]

Burch wrote:

> I note that she also is required to take driver training course (road
> training) for a cost of about US$560.  She is being allowed to take the
> written exam using a translator, but has to be able to understand all the
> road signs.  (She is having a rough time learning Czech.)

	What's she doing there?

	As for Czech, I doubt it's any harder than Russian, the worst
	of which is the pronunciation.  The grammar is pretty straight-	
	forward.  It takes a little  getting used to not having
	coupling verbs.  EG, in	english you ask "what IS this?".  
	In Russian, you say, literally,	"what this?".  The connecting 
	verb is implied.  All in all, slavic languages are pretty
	cool.

	If you want a ball bustingly hard language to learn then go
	for either Hungarian or even worse yet, Basque.  Probably
	the two most difficult languages on the planet.  German is
	considered difficult by most standards and has four cases,
	accusative, nominative, genitive, and dative.  Russian adds
	two more with locative and instrumental.  Hungarian, I have
	been told, has 35 and Basque something like 60.  That is
	insane.  I don't know any Basque, but I can say that Hungarian,
	though strange, is a really cool language if you can get the
	grammar down, which I never really did.

	Just tell your sister to keep at it.  She'll get past a point
	and all of a sudden she will find herself conversing with
	relative fluency.  It's a good feeling.