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Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 20:04
I suppose French is hard for foreigners. Anyway, it's
probably very hard to write it correctly, as it seems
that no Frenchman is able to do it. On this very day I
got 2 professional e-mails, issued by French,
(supposed) educated people, containing such horrible
faults as "Nous avons ignorer". Normally, a 7-year old
child is supposed not to make this mistake (confusing
infinitive with past participle).

But Russian is definitively harder than German, for
English people just like for French, I guess, this
mainly because of the aspects. French, German and
English have no real aspects, anyway, nothing like the
Russian ones. Compared with this, alphabet is
relatively anecdotical.

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > Er. French? Easier than the other Romance > languages - for > Anglophones? Are you feeling okay? Temperature, > perhaps? :) > > Having studied both Spanish and French I found > Spanish much, much easier - even > though I learned it first and therefore had its > Romanceness on the brain to > help me with French. And Italian is only slightly > harder than Spanish, > while still easier than French. Portuguese I can't > really judge because I > studied it after both Spanish and French and could > never extricate it > from the other two successfully. > > > German > > I would say German is harder than any of the Romance > languages, despite > the familial relationship with English. It's those > darn cases. I would > put German on par with Russian, actually; I think > the only thing that makes > Russian more difficult than German is the extra > hurdle of learning a new alphabet. > > -Mark
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