English is the hardest language to learn

Guest   Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:27 pm GMT
"I don`t think so.
english is an easy language and u can learn it in one year if u wanna that.
u can struggle to get it"

What language is this? It kind of looks like it might be related to English.
Guest   Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:39 pm GMT
<<"I don`t think so.
english is an easy language and u can learn it in one year if u wanna that.
u can struggle to get it"

What language is this? It kind of looks like it might be related to English. >>

Yeah that always make me laugh. People expressing how easy English is, while writing very poor English themselves.
Guest   Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:28 pm GMT
"The only thing about Japanese that is hard is the writting system. It's easy to learn how to speak or understand but be illiterate. I only studied it for 6 months and could do very well but since then I forgot most."

hontou ka yo? rokkagetsu dake de nihongo ga jouzu ni naru koto ga sugoi ne~ nihongo de kaite mireba?
Franco   Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:05 pm GMT
<<hontou ka yo? rokkagetsu dake de nihongo ga jouzu ni naru koto ga sugoi ne~ nihongo de kaite mireba>>

If i'm not mistaken you said:

Is that true? To have become a Japan-hand in only six months is great eh. I'd like to see you write Japanese.


Hai sugoi ne, demo watashi wa nihongo de hanashitakunai. Subete ga wasuremashita kara. Nihongo wa ii go desu, demo watashi wa jikan ga nai desu.

As you can see, my japanese sucks.
Presley.   Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:42 pm GMT
Maji hetakuso.
John   Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:57 pm GMT
I understand, although I speak English that it is very hard to speak my language, but there are some things that people not native to the English language say that I want to correct them on. Below are some.

- can anyone tell me harder language to learn.
correct way- can anyone tell me -A- harder language to learn.

and people who post comments that do not speak English, PUT YOUR COMMENT IN ENGLISH!!!!! English-speaking people cannot understand German!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-I believes

correct way- I believe.
Calliope   Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:40 pm GMT
@John: The question was not if it is hard to speak English, but if English is the hardest language to learn. Also, it is not a "nitpick on my non-native mistakes, please" thread; in case you were wondering.
Russell Dawson   Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:45 pm GMT
I've said it before, learning any language is tough and one needs to try a variety of approaches. (Before I visited this thread I hadn't thought of insults as a means sharpening one's skill, but hey, whatever works).

If anyone is looking for ideas about how to increase their exposure to English without being insulted, you could try the following article. I wrote it and if you find it useful at all you could email me to let me know. (My email is posted on the author profile page at the site below)

http://www.helium.com/tm/109907/choosing-right-method-improving

Ganbate, ne!
Ali   Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:02 pm GMT
I don't think so english is one of the easiest languages
deborah   Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:05 pm GMT
I very much doubt that English is the hardest language to learn, although it does become more difficult the higher the level of proficiency you obtain.
I'd say it's possibly the most preferred second language around the world and therefore more people are trying to learn it. This means you have more people saying it's so difficult. Learning a completely new language, any language, is not a piece of cake.

Which language you are coming from of course makes a difference too.
Nevertheless, if your mother tongue is French, German, Spanish or Italian then you are really in a good position to pick up English. So my question to the German etc. speakers would be, if you think English is the hardest, have you learnt any other foreign languages?
Guest   Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:47 am GMT
Oh please, japanese is so easy to learn, in fact you might as well call it a slang of chinese. Japanese is just a complete copy from chinese almost. Most of the hirigana used is made up calligraphy scribbles of chinese texts!!

谁是中国人吗?

誰が中国人ですか?

oh my, do you see the simirality?!

ich finde deutsch ein nicht einfach language. D:
Australian   Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:17 am GMT
Are you people stupid?! English is basically one of the, if not the, easiest languages to learn. There are no masculine, feminine or neutral words like most other languages. German kids in grade 10 can speak excellent English. ENGLISH IS VERY SIMPLE
Justin   Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:34 pm GMT
I am a native English speaker trying to learn Russian, and I don't think speaking English would be very difficult at all. English doesn't have cases or gender, and verb tenses in English are not that difficult. Additionally, English doesn't have all that many words, and alot of words are kennings - words made by compining to other words, e.g., "basekettball" "doghouse" "stoplight" "mailbox". I know other languages use prefixes and suffixes to form different words (Arabic) but in English compound words are so damn simple.

Writing and Spelling in English, however, is ridiculously (I had to look that word up) difficult. Doubled letters and the order of vowels in vowel pairs must be memorized. And I speak American English; spelling is even more confusing in Canada and Britain (American "color" = British "colour"; American "center" = British "centre"). English grammar is not easy, while certianly not as dicfficult as Russian. Most Americans don't use correct grammar.

It is easy enough to speak English well enough to be understood, but difficult to be able to write in English correctly.
xKimmy_Love   Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:13 am GMT
Why are you guys fighting? I mean come on...It's just literature. Well I really can't say that, since I was born with an English tongue, but I have a good interest in learning a different language.

I've always wanted to go to Japan or France, but I don't feel like I can ever really learn the language. I mean face it.

Japan is a parade of pictures and scrolls, each symbol possible of meaning multiple different words.

That's what I call the hardest language right there.

But French is another. I think that would be a piece a cake learning. No offense to the people of France.
xKimmy_Love   Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:17 am GMT
Oh and another thing. How could it have been possibly easy learning about the "new" slang in English.

Asshole

Fucking bitch

Dumbass

Seriously, how confused were you guys when you had to learn English slang?