Richard Crim, you once again amaze me! Cuneiform? Hieroglyphics? Wow! Esperanto for me, no. I'm very bad a languages. I took a mandatory two years of high school French and all I can say is, "Je suis ici." I heard one of the best ways to learn a language (if you can't go live somewhere it is spoken) is to watch TV in that language. (Try finding a channel that broadcasts in cuneiform!) Of course, I also heard the only way to get good at a language, or anything else for that matter, is that you love it so much you enjoy the time you spend learning and practicing it. Languages are not my thing!