Amikeco wrote:Ah, since she is a Russian native speaker...is this another thread where native speakers try to boast about the complexity of their language in order to feel superior?
JackFrost wrote:Moved where it should be.
I'm not even going to mention again that all languages are equally easy/hard. It's all relative like beauty.
Formiko wrote:I'd have to disagree..most Native American Indians can make a grown man cry (especially Cherokee)..and Georgian is known cause cerebral spasms
Formiko wrote:JackFrost wrote:Moved where it should be.
I'm not even going to mention again that all languages are equally easy/hard. It's all relative like beauty.
I'd have to disagree..most Native American Indians can make a grown man cry (especially Cherokee)..and Georgian is known cause cerebral spasms
Российская легко!
(или Русский легок.)
JackFrost wrote:Formiko wrote:JackFrost wrote:Moved where it should be.
I'm not even going to mention again that all languages are equally easy/hard. It's all relative like beauty.
I'd have to disagree..most Native American Indians can make a grown man cry (especially Cherokee)..and Georgian is known cause cerebral spasms
Российская легко!
(или Русский легок.)
Maybe for an English speaker, yes, but you cannot make that overgeneralizing term because it's not the case for everyone.
I'll repeat myself: All languages are equally hard. From the linguistic point of view.
Ennys wrote:I think modern Irish is very difficult, because it has a weird spelling, a pronounciation which I have to learn by heart because I never guess it from the spelling, and some sounds I cannot reproduce, plus the broad-slender variants between which I can not always hear the difference
Broad dh, anyone?
Ennys wrote:And finnish must be very difficult, from what I have heard, because of its many inflections...
Stacy wrote:Yeah, I'm always desperately trying to say Finnish isn't cryptic, it's just a different way of thinking.
But they've already decided it's hard and used it as an excuse not to bother, so of course they're not going to get anywhere with it. (I don't mean Ennys here, I mean eg. Erasmus students which come here )
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