That's interesting that TheHammer says English was easy, because I've always heard that English is one of the hardest languages to learn for a non-native. I was under the impression that it was right up there with Chinese, Japanese, and those other notiously hard languages. I think the reason is that so much relies on context, whereas in other languages, the order of the words doesn't so much matter as long as you have the right noun and verb structure.Maybe I heard wrong. I don't know, I don't have a lot of experience with languages.Peace,Bri
Does anybody else think this is a messed up language? I mean, with too many words and synonyms and too many rules that don't make sense?Now don't get me wrong, English is my native language, but I think that the language is this big hulking beast with patchwork all over it. The entire language needs an overhaul.
Having spoken French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, and Danish throughout my life, I find English relatively straightforward to learn in terms of pronunciation , grammmar....etc (although slangs, idioms could be complicating at times). I think East Asian and Scandinavian languages are among the hardest of all.
self are proof english not so hard languagetry talk like this with other language and you will hardly be understanded
I've often wondered about this. Is any language really any harder or easier than any other language? How could you ever test a hypothesis that set forth that one language was more difficult than another? I mean, afterall, 5 year olds of all languages speak with roughly the same literacy in their native tongues, right? If English, or Russian, or Spanish, or fill-in-the-blank______, were more difficult wouldn't that mean that children would learn to speak the more difficult language later (assuming a comparable level of innate intelligence between the children)?