Re: Language Difficulty

David Peterson <DigitalScream@A...> wrote:
>     Now that I'm thinking about it, I found Arabic easy (though I've by no
> means mastered; I've stopped learning, actually) because it made sense to
me;
> it spoke to my inner logic.  German doesn't make any sense to me at all,
> though.  I still have to sit there with a little "der, die, das" table if
I
> want to write in German.  And speak?  Ha!  Forget it!  "Wo ist derdiedas
Klo?"
>
> -Dave
Hehe...well I must put forward that Italian is a very simple language to
learn: genders are mostly predictable from the noun terminals (except for
the darned -e ones), the article paradigms are, in my opinion, quite
elegant, and there's the added bonus of being able to pronounce dish names
in Italian restaurants :P

Though, the verb paradigm is reasonably large, and the subjunctive ...
sometimes you forget to use the subjunctive :)

I have tried to teach an off-list conlanger in real life a few phrases of my
native language, Cantonese, but it's the tones that mess people up. It's
always the tones that mess people up :P

Imperative

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