I've heard finnish is very, very hard. But since I'm a native finn, I suppose I'm not the right person to say this...
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Anonymous2007-11-19 9:12
yea well i know few americans who have learned finnish. but i think that it's still rated in the top 3 of hardest languages. i can be wrong.
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Anonymous2007-11-20 7:22
Threads like these are completely meaningless. It just turns into a massive pissing contest.
This is like apples and oranges.
The difficulty of a language is an individual thing, based on your lingual (and cultural) experience, and which linguistic topics you are most comfortable with.
For some, the completely different mindset behind Russian, Japanese or Arabic might be a massive setback, for others it's the huge set of phonemes in Abkhaz, Ubykh and !Xoo, and for yet others, it's the cases in Finnish (though this is less of a problem in practice; Finnish is extremely regular, and the 'cases' are merely semi-fancy equivalents of prepositions; though, like Russian, Finnish has a completely terrifying verb system), and so on.
tl;dr: Pointless topic with a pointless question to which there's only a subjective answer. Go to bed.
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Anonymous2007-11-20 9:00
>>8
Ubykh is dead, as you should be. gtfo my /lang/
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Anonymous2007-11-20 13:06
I think swedish and finnish are the hardes to learn.
For English speakers it would be Korean because of the pronunciation, if you are slightly off in most of the languages, people will understand you but when speaking Korean, your pronunciation cannot be slightly off. Chinese difficulty is overrated.
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Anonymous2007-12-01 18:29
>>19
Korean is not so hard. i want it to be my third language.
Chinese is way harder. at least Korean allows for accents
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Anonymous2007-12-02 5:02
>>1
As far as I can tell, Chinese is dead simple for an English speaker. Fairly comfortable sounds, and less complicated grammar than most.
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Anonymous2007-12-02 5:04
mexican
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Anonymous2007-12-02 7:13
Filipino.
Do you speak it?
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Pedro Hansen2007-12-02 8:18
What about those African languages where they just use clicking-noises?
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Anonymous2007-12-02 9:30
>>19-20
Difficult or not, Korean is only useless. Learning it is just a waste of time.
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Anonymous2007-12-04 5:37
>>25
not really. most of our cars are built in Korea (from Chinese parts) and more of our electronics are being built in Korea then in the past. If anything, now if a perfect time to start learning.