Languages and Linguistics

...of Hungarian words.

He has this facility with languages and can passibly speak and read a number of them, how many I'm not exactly sure.

I told him if he started learning Hungarian I would be very annoyed since he's already a show off. (In fairness to the little 25 year old little brat, his old man brags about him quite a bit.)

Kids can learn a lot of languages on line these days if interested. I think my son became interested in languages because I complained during his childhood about how it is a tremendous weakness for Americans that we only speak one language, one for which many other countries have a large number of speakers.

When I worked for the Norwegians they were annoyed when I expressed interest in learning their language. There weren't at that time, over twenty years ago, a lot of resources for learning Norwegian so it didn't go anywhere.

Norway isn't linguistcally homogenous. There are still, I believe, a large subpopulation which speak the "uralic" Sami languages and dialects. When I was a boy, there was a girl in my class who spoke Finnish and if I recall correctly one of the Sami languages.