I'm a terrible one for being tempted to start new languages. I've got my hands full with Latin and Greek for my degree, but keep perusing 'Learn Turkish' sites and have looked up the basics of writing Persian, despite not knowing a single word of it. Turkish is of course written with the Roman alphabet and doesn't look terribly difficult, but Persian has the same problem as Hebrew & Yiddish. And I'm sitting on my hands so as not to order Van Ess' 'Spoken Arabic'...it's an affliction, a terrible affliction.