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Post by Jaga on Mar 2, 2009 22:53:59 GMT -7
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Post by dietrich on Mar 16, 2009 13:04:38 GMT -7
It's quite easy to guess what language people will place on such a list, as long as they are speakers of Germanic or Romance. I've seen many lists like this and it seems that Slavic and Oriental languages are always found hard to learn. French universities tend to have faculties of "Etudes slaves et orientales" and I think they really believe that behind Oder there is nothing but vast barbarian East.
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Post by Jaga on Mar 16, 2009 13:11:47 GMT -7
Hi Dietrich,
I am fascinated with languages just like you. I used to speak Russian, German, English, French, Spanish pretty well. Now I am just left with Polish and English (with Slavic accent).
My father was very proud since he was able to speak Hungarian quite well. This is also a hard language to learn
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Post by pieter on Mar 16, 2009 13:58:05 GMT -7
Jaga, I miss Polish in the blog worlds-hardest-languages-to-learn!  ;D Pieter P.S.- Seriously: Polish has difficult words, difficult pronounciations, a difficult grammar and spelling. It is especially difficult, because for a native English, German or Dutch speaker there are very few words equal to the West-European languages. So you have to learn every word, verb and rule! Extremely difficult! |
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Post by pieter on Mar 16, 2009 14:03:40 GMT -7
For instance in French there are a lot of words that have the same roots as the English equivalent,
and many French words are used in other European languages!
Another example, Spanish is used in mnay countries too, and has become a world language!
Polish is spoken by approximately 60 million people in (40 million) Poland and outside Poland
(the Polish diaspora of 20 million people).
Pieter
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;D