For me it was Hebrew and it’s cool writing system, then ithkuil and how alien it seems. It lead me down a deep rabbithole to where i now make writing systems.

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    Spanish, when I was very young, basically because it was the only other language (besides English) that I knew existed. I grew up in an extremely white/homogenous place, so Sesame Street was pretty much the only reason I even knew Spanish existed.

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      Exposure to a language is always very important, and i think Spanish is pretty common as a second language in Britain and the USA since Spain and Mexico are quite close