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I wanna try korean. But I'm scared its too difficult and end up wasting my time. Anyone with previous experience?
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Quote ( Jimmy De Roy @ March 15th 2010,12:44:11 )
Quote ( Fredrik Palmqvist @ August 24th 2009,16:29:07 )
Example
English: A house, an orange (there are rules for when it's a or an)
Swedish: Ett hus, en apelsin (we have either "en" or "ett" for the english a/an. There are no rule when to use what, as a swede I can hear which is right, but for people who try to learn it, it's extremly hard).
Agree since i am studying it at the moment
Actually, there are rules...most people just don't learn them and/or they aren't very logical. In Danish, and I'm sure it is the same in Swedish, "en" is masculine/feminine and "et" is neuter. Obviously, grammatical gender is illogical at times, hence "en hund" (a dog - masculine/feminine), while "et får" (a sheep - neuter).
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Quote ( Dylan van den Berg @ March 15th 2010,12:42:59 )
Easiest : Turkish I learmed Turkish about 2 years ago and I have to admit it wasn't easy at all.They sentence system is different from other languages.And hells know what I've been throw during the time I was learning it :)
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Yoruba is a common language with West African countries Quite easy. Who Wants in??
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Maltese not that hard I think. Nicest anguage 2 swear in
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Gallic! (ie, Welsh, Cornish, Irish and Scots gallic) Although, I heard in Brittany, they have welsh under the french place names!
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the hardest is till: DUTCH, it's my mother languages but i still fail it :S, and english is the easiest, try dutch you will fail in the grammer (i still fail it xD)
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Who wants a maltese lesson?? Not now maybe 6:30PM
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Now let's forget all the "popular" languages. There is a language spoken by tribes living by the Amazon river. All you Brazilians should be familiar with it or at least should have heard of it.
Anyway, they don't know quantifiers at all but they have a "sense" for numbers. They can't count and can't tell the difference when given two pictures, one with 3 fishes, second with 4 fishes.
What's more, their language has 3 vowels and 8 consonants and it can be spoken or whistled! They have like 50 words or so in total. The resutl of that is they don't dance, play music, or do art of any kind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraha_language - here is the link
Now imagine that for every 10.000 births one person has absolute hearing (if you don't know what that is, google it). There is a tribe (sadly I forgot it's name) where all tribe members have absolute hearing. If you're having trouble recognizing differences in pronunciation, imagine how you would feel among them.
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Quote ( Mareks Sāns @ August 24th 2009,16:03:42 )
Lithuanian hard? Bullpoopsicles :D
It isnt for a brother latvian :D
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Quote ( Slawek Waszkiewicz @ March 15th 2010,16:22:47 )
What's more, their language has 3 vowels and 8 consonants and it can be spoken or whistled! They have like 50 words or so in total. The resutl of that is they don't dance, play music, or do art of any kind.
This is simply not true. Their language has many more "words" than that, though most of those are reflected by pre- or suffixing existing words. And the not doing art is also wrong. The very Wiki link you gave tells that mothers teach their kids to speak by singing. In fact, Piraha is a very tonal language, where meaning can change by varying pitch and tone.
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Quote ( Bruno Grønbæk Kristensen @ March 15th 2010,16:54:51 )
Their language has many more "words" than that, though most of those are reflected by pre- or suffixing existing words.
OK, it's like LEGO. You can construct many different words but you use the same word-base. I'm sure they can express more by altering pitch, stress and rhythm and they don't bother much with constructing words.
Quote ( Bruno Grønbæk Kristensen @ March 15th 2010,16:54:51 )
And the not doing art is also wrong. The very Wiki link you gave tells that mothers teach their kids to speak by singing.
Singing is art. No argue here, however I wouldn't call teaching how to speak an art. Mothers don't create anything, they repeat the same musical patterns and the main purpose of that is to teach their kids to speak, not to please their ears.
Culture itself doesnt exist in thier world. Culture is conveyed by schools, theaters, libraries, mass media etc. This kind of culture (and yes Im talking about elite culture, or high culture) is created by inteligence, by people who, by learining, gained an ability to create and understand art. Of course art is addressed to everybody (well usually it is) but it requires wide reception skills from the community. Without basic knowlege of history, literature, basic theoretical knowlege and speaking you won't be able to create art and even recognize it.
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I`ve heard that Latvian is one of most difficult languages in world, but I think It`s just another reason for russian fools too ignore our language. :(
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I think georgian and flemish are very hard, since it involves a lot of sounds produced by your throat. And of course, let's not forget na'vi :)
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Aquest és el més difícil d'aprendre l'idioma
*~EDIT!~*
Русский язык - трудный язык, чтобы учиться также.
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Beside latvian I know russian (easy) and english (basics - easy, grammar - hard)...
Now i am trying to get rid of polish language basics. It is real challenge to be honest :)
Later i would like to learn language of my granddads, but... Almost in every country this language is different.
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I can speak
Albanian
English
Spanish(a bit)
The hardest one for me is chinese russian and arabian language
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Im sorry for digging this up but Ive just finished reading an article about polish language on Uncyclopedia and all Ive got to say is that I almost choked to death while reading. And yes, I was laughing so hard. This is incredibly fun to read if you're polish. But despite the fact it's a bit exaggerated, all the grammar parts are correct and it still can make you laugh, or feel sorry for us Poles ;)
The article itself is a bit long but I strongly recommend it if you have some spare time.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Polish_language
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I always said Polish is the hardest language by far. I don't know how non-natives can learn it. I also don't know how on earth Chinese and Japanese can read those hieroglyphs.
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Q: Jesteś pedałem? (Are you gay?) A: No (Yes)
LOL Slawek lol site ;P
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I can speak English, American, canadian, and australian lol
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Great ! And New Zealandian I suppose.
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Quote ( Nigel Hartlebury @ June 15th 2010,16:39:50 )
I can speak English, American, canadian, and australian lol
But not Scots or Anglo-Irish?
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I can speak Romanian and Moldavian in that case :)
Just imagine how many languages the spaniards are speaking :)
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Quote ( Alin Costrasuc @ June 15th 2010,17:06:22 )
Just imagine how many languages the spaniards are speaking :)
Aragonese, Catalan, Navaronese, Andalucian, what else? :)
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well dutch isn't that easy(only listen to all those people who try to) but for us belgium isn't that hard to master:P
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Well I'm currently learning French & Spanish at school, and find Spanish slightly easier.
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Quote ( Bruno Grønbæk Kristensen @ June 15th 2010,17:24:04 )
Aragonese, Catalan, Navaronese, Andalucian, what else? :)
Basque?
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Quote ( Slawek Waszkiewicz @ June 15th 2010,17:59:51 )
Basque?
Not a "Spanish" language, as such, unless we go by geography.
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I am currently in Year 8 and I have been learning french since Year 7 and started German in Year 8. Guess what.....
know More German than french.
For my german homework i can do it within 5-10 minutes. However with my frenhc i have to use Translators and it takes me about 20 minutes to do almost the same work.
French is just wierd
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