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Languages are complex and fascinating, often leading people to describe unfamiliar ones as perplexing or incomprehensible. There's a popular idiom in English, "it's all Greek to me," used to convey confusion, as if something were as challenging as understanding the Greek language. Interestingly, many cultures have similar idioms, but the language of reference changes. For example, in France, they might say "it's Chinese to me," expressing the same sentiment. In Italy, it's "Arabic," and in Greece, they turn the tables by saying, "it's Chinese." These idioms don't reflect the true complexity of a language but rather its perceived foreignness to another culture. Each culture has its own 'mysterious' language, a testament to our shared human experience of feeling baffled by the unfamiliar. This phenomenon showcases how cultures perceive each other and highlights the shared human experience of navigating linguistic diversity.