I stumbled on a Flickr clip which wasn't very good of a portion of an interview in Occitan. It was the strangest thing -- what little I could hear of it sounded something like French spoken with a Spanish accent. I need to find some better audio bits of it. I looked it up and saw a brief background, etc. I'm always interested, though, in peoples' personal experience -- anyone on this list encountered the language? Know how it's written? Conversant in it? It's kinda intriguing. Julie Krueger