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07-23-2006, 02:46 AM
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| do they seriously have a lot of ways to say i love u in hindi???
Chinese isnt hard...its just different.........spanish is hard - - i cant say the rr sound - - | 
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07-23-2006, 02:51 AM
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| Spanish pronunciation is so EASY...everything is right there to pronounce!
English is really hard with lots of rules to pronounce, and a lot of curve balls. | |
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07-23-2006, 10:43 AM
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| Navajo I agree with. Also, from what I've heard, Finnish and Hungarian are very difficult for English speakers. | |
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07-23-2006, 10:50 AM
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| Greek? really, this is a total shot in the dark. | |
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07-23-2006, 12:14 PM
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| Spanish is either hard to pronounce or easy to pronounce; it's fairly easy for me because I grew up with parents who spoke 3 languages each and were always code-switching. None of those languages was Spanish (actually: English/French/Swedish and English/French/German respectively) but I guess I was just used to different languages. I technically speak English, French, and Spanish, but I can't pronounce French for the life of me, but that's because my pallate is irregularly-shaped. The rr thing is tricky and very subtle, but other than that Spanish is fairly easy to learn (latin-based, many congnates, etc.) except all the different verb tenses; very few helping verbs!
I would expect the hardest languages to learn (for an English-speaker) are Chinese and Finnish simply because they are SO different - ie, not latin or germanic. | |
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07-23-2006, 12:58 PM
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| nko, I realize that about sanskrit. But don't most Indo-Aryan languages stem from Sanskrit? I just find it interesting, especially since I know nothing about any of those languages.
I think Spanish is easy to pronounce. I'm Chinese, and I roll my R's easily. | |
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07-23-2006, 01:56 PM
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| "chinese. I tried learning one sentence and messed up on every word"
read the title of the topic: LATIN-scripted | |
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07-23-2006, 01:58 PM
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| gstein, I can only attest to German from the languages I've been trying to learn. It's those verbs in certain tenses that bog me down, as well as the false cognates.... | |
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07-23-2006, 02:09 PM
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| meduh:
yes, like I said, its kinda like latin. Since I know hindi, I know that a lot of hindi words are derived from sanskrit. | |
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07-23-2006, 02:39 PM
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| I can't roll my "r"'s at all. I had straight A+'s in Spanish, though. | |
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07-23-2006, 02:40 PM
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| I didn't know Sanskrit was alive....it's kinda like Latin-no one speaks it, except holy places.
I figured everyone thought about Chinese in Pinyin. | |
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07-23-2006, 02:53 PM
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| Well, you'll find that Sanskrit has been going through a moderate revival over the past few years. The CBSE (main board of education in India) has it as a third language through middle school and as a second language in high school. I also know of a town in Gujarat (a state in India) where the entire population speaks sanskrit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskri...pts_at_revival
(All hail wikipedia, greatest of all resources  ) | |
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07-23-2006, 05:22 PM
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| I thought German developed on it's own without the Latin influence. During the Ancient Roman Empire, Germany didn't speak Latin. (I'm not sure, but i remeber hearing something about this.) | |
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07-23-2006, 05:40 PM
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| I think German is developed independently of Latin too, but don't count my word on this. I have a friend who's a total linguistic freak and he rambles a lot about the origins of languages, and it's not that I don't care (I find this stuff fascinating), I just can't keep up with him.
And I wouldn't trust some things found on Wikipedia simply because it's Wikipedia... | |
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07-23-2006, 10:07 PM
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| I would think Finnish might take this one, and both Vietnamese and Bahasa Melayu are near it. | |
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