Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 16:31 |
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On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:43:21PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> Easy:
> (roughly in order, probably)
> Dutch(possibly the easiest major world language to learn)/Afrikaans
This is all horribly subjective, but as long as we all keep that in mind
. . .
I've often heard Indonesian touted as the easiest language for
English-speakers to learn. I don't know it, so I can't comment on the
accuracy of the opinion.
> French
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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