Seriously, some of the dumbest people in the world speak it. It takes no skill to speak. Whereas other languages such as Русский, Español, Tiếng Việt, 日本語, 汉语, 한국어 and several others require skill. I'm sick of hearing this comment about how English is one of the most difficult languages in the world. It's the easiest. Anglophones are also some of the most ignorant and obnoxious people in the world.
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Anonymous2007-01-13 1:54
Oh yeah, Americans are the ONLY idiots in the world *rolls eyes*
Seriousely. It's literally impossible for anyone who can speak "Human" to speak dog. However, there's this article that talks about humans that has been brought up by animals. These people can speak the animals language and speak. However, they cannot learn any human languages. It's very strange.
says who? woof woof rawr ruff woof growl bark! "If you do not chase your tail, you may end up where your master is heading."
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Anonymous2007-01-23 15:45
Animals have limited forms of communications, but most aren't that complex. Of note is whales, dolphins and elephants. Bees are widely known to communicate by dancing. Dogs, as far as I know, have limited communication means, but they use body language more than vocalized things. If I remember correctly, groundhogs or prairie dogs or meerkats have a form of communication that is fairly advanced.
Mandarin Chinese only has four tones (five if you want to get technical). It's not that hard.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 13:52
Ithkuil is the hardest language.
Go fuck yourselves now.
Seriously, though, the difficulty between languages can't be measured by a single factor. You need to take so many things into account; case system, verbal system, phonology, morphology, arbitrariness, et cetera, et cetera.
English is my third language, and by personal opinion, I find it far easier than Russian, my first, and German, my fourth.
Russian has a far more complex verb system than English, as well as a large amount of consonantal phonemes (due to palatalisation and such) and far more difficult grammar.
I know Norwegian, as well, and find it stupidly simple. Simple "subject-object" case system, relatively small vocabulary, etc. Pronunciation is on the irregular side, but it's still no big deal.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 14:40
>>95
No human can speak Ithkuil, even the man who made it. I don't the language counts.
In my native tongue, Polish, pronunciation is simple. For the most part, the way you recite the alphabet is the way you always pronounce the letter in a word.
No. You just don't notice because you know the language natively.
I know Russian, and I've had a go at Polish. Despite this claimed one-to-one correspondence between pronunciation and orthography (which really isn't true, anyway), its unnatural combinations of consonants and small use of vowels make it stupidly hard to pronounce.
You don't even really pronounce letters in words as you do in the alphabet. For example, how would you pronounce "sz", "rz", "cz", etc?
Russian, on the other hand, has a much simpler phonology. Once you know on which syllable the stress is, you can deduct the word's pronunciation.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 15:35
>>99 For example, how would you pronounce "sz", "rz", "cz", etc?
*shurg* But it wouldn't take me more than ten minutes to learn.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 21:25
I think sz is like sh and cz is like ch. No damn clue about rz, though.
hahahahahahaha! oh wow. grouping people in with the languages that are spoken is even more ignorant than racism. why dont you hide under your rock again since you cant come up with a good reason for hating. it was good seeing you again though, how do you like the sunshine? has it changed at all since the last time you emerged?
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Fun Machine2007-01-31 1:49
English is the hardest to learn, not due to pronunciation, but different rules of grammar and past/present/future tense. For anyone who doesn't speak english, it's pretty damned hard to get the hang of right away. If you're born and raised to speak english, then sure, it's no problem. You know the different rules of the english language...but anyone else will have some difficulty catching on to it
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Anonymous2007-01-31 2:36
Spanish is the hardest to learn, not due to pronunciation, but different rules of grammar and past/present/future tense. For anyone who doesn't speak Spanish, it's pretty damned hard to get the hang of right away. If you're born and raised to speak Spanish, then sure, it's no problem. You know the different rules of the Spanish language...but anyone else will have some difficulty catching on to it
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Anonymous2007-01-31 8:26
Engrish is the hardest to learn, not due to rules of grammar and past/present/future tense, but different pronunciation. For anyone who doesn't speak Engrish, it's pretty damned hard to get the hang of right away. If you're born and raised to speak Engrish, then sure, it's no problem. You know the different pronunciation of the Engrish language...but anyone else will have some difficulty catching on to it
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Anonymous2007-02-03 2:44
>>101 >>100
ch - same as h in happy
cz - same as ch in church
dz - same as d followed by z
rz - same as s in treasure
sz - same as sh in share
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Anonymous2007-02-03 23:37
Lojban ftw.
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Anonymous2007-02-04 1:25
>>105
your an idiot... go back to failing school dipshit
french, spanish are much harder to learn than english(that's why english is an international trading language easy & quick to learn) cause every noun has a "sexe"
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Anonymous2007-02-04 4:31
how the hell can you fail at american school? they're not even teaching anything. find an average graduate and he won't know the difference between affect and effect.
But how many of these people are actually (properly) literate? How many can differentiate between "your" and "you're" or "its" and "it's"?
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Anonymous2007-10-30 15:13
I would say that speaking english isnt' that hard, but reading and writing are. And this is mostly because the words dont sound anything like they been spelled. My first language is finnish and second english. When I compare these two languages, english is simpler to speak, but when it comes to writing a word that you have only heard it horrible, no wonder you have spelling competitions. When in finnish you just write every "sound" you hear and you most likely got the word right.
Same goes for reading, I can pronounce any finnish word that I have never heard by just reading it, but in english I could only guess.
SO english has its problems, but as it has been said earlier on its because you can hear it everywhere you start to learn it. I got the hang of it trhough internet and fanficts. So I do apologize and and all typosand misspells, I suck at grammar.
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Anonymous2007-10-30 15:17
>How many can differentiate between "your" and "you're" or "its" and "it's"?
Not many Americans, at any rate.