Latin vs Greek?

tokenadult
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:23:03 +0000

Any particular learner might find any particular language “easier” for reasons that are individual to that learner. I find Chinese “easier” than Russian, even though Russian is cognate with English, being an Indo-European language. The boy asked about in the original post, as I recall, has an interest in history. Maybe just choosing his language with that interest in mind may be helpful. Or maybe one teacher clicks with him better than another–I’ve had a variety of teachers in a variety of languages, and some connected with me better than others. Some people like dead languages that allow one to punt issues of pronunciation, and some people like languages with lots of dialect variation and lots of sounds that don’t occur in their native languages.