Many words and expressions makes more sense when you have a knowledge in a Latin language or in Latin itself. I prefer living languages, not a defender of Latin, French is fine.
It really gives you the medal. The first foreign language is the hardest to learn and I got it from childhood. After that it just gets better all the time, there is a red thread in every language and they all reminds a little of each other (almost all).
I want to learn Arabic, the Egypt version. I have it here to start self studies, but I need someone to help me with the writing.
I have met more Danish people out and about (on private excursions) than Americans. There are some 5 million Danish and a mind blowing 300 million Americans. That gives 60 million Americans holding a passport. Do they use it ?
Within the Roman alphabet we have the same letters but with some add-ons, like in France they have this ^ above the o = ô. Still the same but to make it more accessible considering the number of words using them they reordered the keyboard in a number of layouts. Most build on the qwerty (the first six letters on the upper left).
The keyboard really holds a lot more hidden characters like ¦+++. I do not know if they print here, but hold Alt down while entering 199 on the keyboard and you see.
RE: intelligence
I am not intelligent enough to get your reply here. Who is?