YHL wrote:
>
> > Okay okay, I sit corrected. It is a natural language, but from my
experience
> > in Latin speaking the language is very tedious, and I wish my language
to be
> > more fluent, easily spoken.
>
> IMHO "easily spoken" depends on what language you come from! Since
> English has lost most of its cases (pedants like me who use "whom,"
> things like "whose," etc. remain), English speakers may find case
> language problematic. But I bet people used to free word order and cases
> find more analytic languages with their tiresome word-order rules a pain
> to learn.
Yup, I agree with you. I think English for a Tagalog L1 speaker could seem
more difficult than Latin to an English mothertongual speaker.
Luca