You're making a good pitch for learning Akkadian! I wish you were there when I was a freshman in college idling flipping through the foreign language offerings

You're making a good pitch for learning Akkadian! I wish you were there when I was a freshman in college idling flipping through the foreign language offerings to fill a requirement. Akkadian was towards the front of some alphabetical listing and I was idly wondering whether to try it or stick with the language I studied in high school. I still wish my school didn't have a foreign language requirement at all, but I feel like this pitch would have converted more people scrolling through that alphabetical section of the course catalog.