Chinese

I have a professor who has been trying to learn it for like a decade and she says she still feels like "an outsider looking in" with regard to the language.

I think you can get up to the point of basic communication pretty fast, but ever really enjoying the culture is difficult. Let alone truly classic lit.

There's also this:
http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

And some anon here once posted a gigantic 3-post extragavanza about why learning Chinese is an extremely horrible idea and waste of time.

>>9273892
Unless you're prepared to spend literally the rest of your life learning it, probably not worth it.

It's basically impossible for a foreigner to become properly fluent.

>>9273911
开玩笑呗

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>>9273908
>>9273911
oh damn, ok. What about japanese or korean? I wanted to learn an east asian language...

or i guess i could just learn italian. I already know french so it wouldn't be that big of a jump.

>>9273942
pic related

>>9273952
I find it a truly fun language to learn. I recommend it, but it's true that it's pretty much a lifetime thing.