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[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] thinks that, despite its structural flaws, Esperanto is basically the coolest concept ever. Interlingua, however, is prettier.
===French===
[[Sam Doyon '05]] took Japanese for 3 1/2 years at Williams, lived in Tokyo for two months before he forgot every word of Japanese.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] took this in high school but now retains little more than the ability to pretend he 's Japanese is speaking Japanese by inserting whatever he wants to say in English between "watashi wa" and "desufading fast."
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09atr Alex Ratte '09] knows how to talk like a middle-aged woman from Tokyo because that's what his mom is.
[[Walker Matthews '08]] has studied Latin for seven years, which implies (but does not guarantee) that he knows what he's talking about.
 
===Lojban===
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] is at once terrified of this language and somehow strangely attracted to it.
===Love, the Language of===
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] used to speak this quite well over actually thinks Polish orthography makes a few glasses lot of Tyskie or Żywiec (but never Lech); alas, język rosyjski wszystko zepsułsense. Obviously this makes him crazy. Sto lat.
[[Mike Nguyen '10]] na zdrowie!
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