Strenght and Weaknesses of Major Languages

Hi everybody, I wish to ahr my observation about the adcantages and disadvntages of the leading world languages.

ENGLISH
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Large number of secondary speakers.
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.
Spoken in major international organizations.
Strong influence of its native speakers.

Disadvantages:
It cannot coin own its term and therefore has the tendency to borrow.
Inconsistent spelling.

FRENCH
Advantages:
Large number of secondary speakers.
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.
Spoken in major international organizations.
Higly influential native speakers.
Higly standardized that native and non-native speakers speak it well in formal situations.

Disadvantages:
Below 100 million native speakers.
Lots of homonyms that create confusions.

RUSSIAN:
Advantages:
Spoken natively in large geographical areas such as Russia, Belarus, parts of Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Very minor differences between its dialects.
Large number of native speakers.
Large number of secondary speakers.
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.

Disadvantages:
Difficult to study for those who are not familiar with it.
Widely spoken only in a large continuous landmass from E. Europe to Mongolia.

SPANISH
Disadvantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in 20 countries.
Easy to study.

Disadvantages:
Not widely spoken as a foreign language except in the US.
Limited presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.

ARABIC
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in more than 15 countries.
Strong presence in literature and economy.

Disadvantages:
Not widely spoken as a foreign language.
Numerous dialects exist.
Difficult to study for those who are not familiar with it.

CHINESE
Advantages:
Spoken only in China, a huge landmass and Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in more than 15 countries.
Written form is used by its distinct dialects.

Disadvantages:
Not widely spoken outside as a foreign language.
Numerous dialects exist some of it compete with Mandarin the standard dialect.
Difficult to study for those who are not familiar with it.

PORTUGUESE
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in large landmass.
Spoken in 4 continents.

Disadvantages:
Often perceived as a variant of Spanish.
Not widely spoken outside as a foreign language.

HINDI
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Strong presence in literature.
Strong influence of its people.

Disadvantages:
Not spoken as official language in Non-Hindi states.
Not widely spoken as a foreign language.

GERMAN
Advantages:
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.
Higly inluential native speakers.

Disadvantages:
Spoken natively only in limited geographical area such as Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg.
Numerous dialects exist.

ITALIAN
Advantages:
Has a strong presence in arts, music, literature, economy and to a lesser extent sience and technology.
Higly inluential native speakers.
Fairly widely spoken as a foreign language.
Easy to study.

Disadvantages:
Spoken natively only in limited geographical area such as Italy, San Marino, and parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg.
Numerous dialects exist.

JAPANESE:
Advantages:
Strong presence in science, technology, economy, etc.
More than 100 million plus native speakers.
The most widely spoken Asian language in the orient.

Disadvantages:
Natively spoken only in Japan.
Written form(s) deter(s) those who want to study it.

Hi everybody, I wish to share my opinion about the advantages and disadvntages of the leading world languages.

ENGLISH
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Large number of secondary speakers.
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.
Spoken in major international organizations.
Strong influence of its native speakers.

Disadvantages:
It cannot coin own its term and therefore has the tendency to borrow.
Inconsistent spelling.

FRENCH
Advantages:
Large number of secondary speakers.
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.
Spoken in major international organizations.
Higly influential native speakers.
Higly standardized that native and non-native speakers speak it well in formal situations.

Disadvantages:
Below 100 million native speakers.
Lots of homonyms that create confusions.

RUSSIAN:
Advantages:
Spoken natively in large geographical areas such as Russia, Belarus, parts of Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Very minor differences between its dialects.
Large number of native speakers.
Large number of secondary speakers.
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.

Disadvantages:
Difficult to study for those who are not familiar with it.
Widely spoken only in a large continuous landmass from E. Europe to Mongolia.

SPANISH
Disadvantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in 20 countries.
Easy to study.

Disadvantages:
Not widely spoken as a foreign language except in the US.
Limited presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.

ARABIC
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in more than 15 countries.
Strong presence in literature and economy.

Disadvantages:
Not widely spoken as a foreign language.
Numerous dialects exist.
Difficult to study for those who are not familiar with it.

CHINESE
Advantages:
Spoken only in China, a huge landmass and Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in more than 15 countries.
Written form is used by its distinct dialects.

Disadvantages:
Not widely spoken outside as a foreign language.
Numerous dialects exist some of it compete with Mandarin the standard dialect.
Difficult to study for those who are not familiar with it.

PORTUGUESE
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in large landmass.
Spoken in 4 continents.

Disadvantages:
Often perceived as a variant of Spanish.
Not widely spoken outside as a foreign language.

HINDI
Advantages:
Large number of native speakers.
Strong presence in literature.
Strong influence of its people.

Disadvantages:
Not spoken as official language in Non-Hindi states.
Not widely spoken as a foreign language.

GERMAN
Advantages:
Large number of speakers as a foreign language.
Strong presence in science, technology, literature, economy, etc.
Higly inluential native speakers.

Disadvantages:
Spoken natively only in limited geographical area such as Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg.
Numerous dialects exist.

ITALIAN
Advantages:
Has a strong presence in arts, music, literature, economy and to a lesser extent sience and technology.
Higly inluential native speakers.
Fairly widely spoken as a foreign language.
Easy to study.

Disadvantages:
Spoken natively only in limited geographical area such as Italy, San Marino, and parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg.
Numerous dialects exist.

JAPANESE:
Advantages:
Strong presence in science, technology, economy, etc.
More than 100 million plus native speakers.
The most widely spoken Asian language in the orient.

Disadvantages:
Natively spoken only in Japan.
Written form(s) deter(s) those who want to study it.

Very biased.

how much time did these bunch of idiocies require you to write them all?

English cannot coin it's own terms and therefore has a tendency to borrow? You mean like "Le weekend"?

Does anyone want to list any other crap?

I think you meant to say that Spanish isn't learned as a foreign language very much outside of the US.

What a professional and accurate analysis! It's stunning, I suggest you to write an university book.
Let me think.... is there another idiotic stereotype to add??? MHHHH...no, it's such and hard task to find other ones.

Guest (the first one in this thread) wrote an interesting analysis. If you disagree with his conclusions, you can state why, or else ignore the thread. Why do we have this constant knee-jerk reaction with hateful speech on almost EVERY thread, no matter what the topic? Don't we have a moderator here?

I'm sure I'll have an instantaneous obnoxious reply to my post, so I'm not going to be surprised. I do, however, remain hopeful of better behaviour. This is a great forum, but it get's harder and harder to keep reading with all the flamers.

Russian:
advantages - you will have strong cheek and lip muscles for shredding food (and other more unmentionable stuff)

Chinese - you will have flexible tongue, good for unmentionable stuff.

Sorry I made a mistake. It should be

CHINESE
Advantages:
Spoken only in China, a huge landmass and Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Large number of native speakers.
Written form is used is uniform for all its distinct dialects.

JAPANESE:
Advantages:
Strong presence in science, technology, economy, etc.
More than 100 million plus native speakers.
The most widely spoken Asian language in the orient as foreign language.

not

CHINESE
Advantages:
Spoken only in China, a huge landmass and Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Large number of native speakers.
Spoken natively in more than 15 countries.
Written form is used by its distinct dialects.

JAPANESE:
Advantages:
Strong presence in science, technology, economy, etc.
More than 100 million plus native speakers.
The most widely spoken Asian language in the orient.

Sorry again!

Chinese spoken natively in more than 15 countries?? Huh??

Chinese has more speakers than Japanese.

It's also worth noting that Chinese's writing system is incredibly hard to learn (about as bad as Japanese's; I'm not sure which is harder), and it's only a good representation of Mandarin, so it doesn't correlate well to other Chinese dialects.

- Kef

"Disadvantages:
It cannot coin own its term and therefore has the tendency to borrow."


What about French "l'email", "l'internet" or "un pullover" or German "das Bestseller", "das Computer", "das Couch", "Eskalation", "Konfrontation", "Impeachment", "Jeep" which have all been borrowed from English? Even the German word "boot" (boat) comes from English.

Guest (the first one in this thread) wrote an interesting analysis. If you disagree with his conclusions, you can state why, or else ignore the thread. Why do we have this constant knee-jerk reaction with hateful speech on almost EVERY thread, no matter what the topic? Don't we have a moderator here?



OHHH!!! Very interesting! Above all when it says about one language is "easy" or when it is spoken in coubtries where it does not exist, very scientific.
Maybe these reactions are constant because the 99% of the topic are constant idiotic.
Right, where is the moderator? Why he doesn't delete this topics? Why does he delete only the topics he doesn't like?

<< Chinese spoken natively in more than 15 countries?? Huh??

Chinese has more speakers than Japanese. >>

I said I made a mistake. Kindly read my 2nd latest message before yours furrykef!