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To those who are multi-lingual...a question for you.
- Thread starter Deidre
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Well...I've been learning languages since I was 10. Now I speak 5 languages (It, Eng, Sp, Fr, Ger). 4 of them fluently.
Learning Spanish is super-easy for an Italian...and French is quite easy as well. Speaking them is very relaxing to me.
Speaking English can be tough...but learning English grammar is easy as pie.
Learning German is really hard..you need mind flexibility...and logic. It deals with a very schematic language, very different than the versatile, flowing Italian.
German, I'd answer.
Btw...you need memory more than logic...but if u love languages, it can be pretty fun
Learning Spanish is super-easy for an Italian...and French is quite easy as well. Speaking them is very relaxing to me.
Speaking English can be tough...but learning English grammar is easy as pie.
Learning German is really hard..you need mind flexibility...and logic. It deals with a very schematic language, very different than the versatile, flowing Italian.
German, I'd answer.
Btw...you need memory more than logic...but if u love languages, it can be pretty fun
Audie
Veteran Member
Mom raised me with both, so it was not hard.
Probably Chinese for me. Not the language as such, but the cultural context.
Spanish was not difficult, because I grew up in Latin America.
Of course, I have not tried to learn Swedish.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
German isn't too hard. But Japanese is very difficult.
There's technically no reason to bother with any language but English and Chinese.
However, if you're into occult subjects Latin, French, and German are more helpful than English. 01001010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01110101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110
RabbiO
הרב יונה בן זכריה
Not in my world.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Pretty sure I had my reasons. Couldn't be the Germans who come here, or wanting to go to Japan, or anything like that.
Jumi
Well-Known Member
There are quite a few languages that are hard to learn, but English is probably among the easiest to learn basic communication with. The real difficulties in English is the amount of rule exceptions and pronunciations not matching the writing. It of course depends on how different your own language is from English how difficult it is, mine isn't an Indo-European language so I need to think in English if I want to write it somewhat intelligibly. Translating from my own language always makes a mess.
For you to learn Arabic, it's also not an Indo-European language unlike English so of course it will be quite difficult to get.
Writing it is hard, but I loooove how it looks! I agree with your perception of English. There are many nuances, that is what I believe is hard, if you haven't been raised speaking it from your childhood.
A good European citizen should know the 5 languages of the EU-
lol...kidding...but yeah...English allows us to communicate with anyone.
I mean...that's why the idea of learning a non-Indoeuropean language scares me...u guys are great.
Spiderman
Veteran Member
I can speak a whole bunch of Latin i learned while at a monastery.
Latin is not difficult to speak and memorize, but difficult to understand.
I also learned how to speak in gibberish at Pentecostal holy spirit revivals.
I can pray the hail Mary in Japanese, French, and Aramaic.
I can say, "God is great" in Arabic.
That's about it for me talking in tongues.
Latin is not difficult to speak and memorize, but difficult to understand.
I also learned how to speak in gibberish at Pentecostal holy spirit revivals.
I can pray the hail Mary in Japanese, French, and Aramaic.
I can say, "God is great" in Arabic.
That's about it for me talking in tongues.
Pretty sure Chinese is the hardest of the major languages.
For minor languages it would be the language of the San people of South Africa.
Jumi
Well-Known Member
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Well, out of Spanish and American Sign Language that Im still learning, ASL is the hardest. It uses a total visual grammar system
So instead of saying: Im going to the store to by cookies,
Its (glossished)
Store
There (point to where the store is)
I-go-in
Shelves (left or right)
Shelf (1-2-3)
Shelf 3. Cookies. There.
(I-take)
Buy
I was going to be an ASL interpreter. The language also is culture sensitive. English not so much.
I pick up spanish easily. If I went overseas, Id be fluent already.
Jedster
Flying through space
There's technically no reason to bother with any language but English and Chinese.
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illykitty
RF's pet cat
I speak three languages, (native) French, English and Hungarian.
The last one is the hardest of the three, because it's part of its own group of languages, Uralic (from Ural mountains in Russia) and it's NOT Indo-European. So you won't see anything familiar apart from the alphabet (which used to be runes). Finnish and Estonian is part of that family too but they are more similar to each other due to proximity and Hungarian has evolved into it's own thing. Now it's hardly anything like those two. I speak it and can more or less read it. Learned it from my mom at the same time as French but it's kind of basic, not sophisticated. I can watch, say, a Disney movie in Hungarian and understand most of it but not something more "grown-up".
So Hungarian has quite a lot of quirks, for anyone curious just skim the Wikipedia article.
A few examples: it has 14 vowels (long and short ones) and has a LOT of word variation to indicate possession, amount, who it's for, if it's a noun, etc. That means some words can get freakishly long! Also it's gender neutral, so it doesn't matter if you're male, female or consider yourself a different gender, everyone is referred as "ő" (pronounced "eu", for French speakers or roughly like in the word Europe in English).
Having dabbled in a lot of languages, Chinese and Japanese are very difficult for me for different reasons. Speaking Japanese is relatively simple for me but it has a very complex writing system and you need to remember the correct honorifics and the particles. Chinese is very difficult for me personally, because I struggle to say the tones right. I can hear them ok. Some people don't struggle with them though. The writing system is challenging too, but apparently less frustrating, according to some, than Japanese. I've never bothered though, so it's not my opinion. Korean has its own difficulties but at least writing it is easier with their letters called Hangul.
The last one is the hardest of the three, because it's part of its own group of languages, Uralic (from Ural mountains in Russia) and it's NOT Indo-European. So you won't see anything familiar apart from the alphabet (which used to be runes). Finnish and Estonian is part of that family too but they are more similar to each other due to proximity and Hungarian has evolved into it's own thing. Now it's hardly anything like those two. I speak it and can more or less read it. Learned it from my mom at the same time as French but it's kind of basic, not sophisticated. I can watch, say, a Disney movie in Hungarian and understand most of it but not something more "grown-up".
So Hungarian has quite a lot of quirks, for anyone curious just skim the Wikipedia article.
A few examples: it has 14 vowels (long and short ones) and has a LOT of word variation to indicate possession, amount, who it's for, if it's a noun, etc. That means some words can get freakishly long! Also it's gender neutral, so it doesn't matter if you're male, female or consider yourself a different gender, everyone is referred as "ő" (pronounced "eu", for French speakers or roughly like in the word Europe in English).
Having dabbled in a lot of languages, Chinese and Japanese are very difficult for me for different reasons. Speaking Japanese is relatively simple for me but it has a very complex writing system and you need to remember the correct honorifics and the particles. Chinese is very difficult for me personally, because I struggle to say the tones right. I can hear them ok. Some people don't struggle with them though. The writing system is challenging too, but apparently less frustrating, according to some, than Japanese. I've never bothered though, so it's not my opinion. Korean has its own difficulties but at least writing it is easier with their letters called Hangul.