i have heard a lot on here about which languages are easiest/hardest, etc. i think we are missing something important in this discussion.
first of all, when someone talks about language difficulty, then they automatically mean as a second language. of course, the easiest language is the one you speak at home from birth. after that it would depend on your native languge.
what is mean is this. if i speak english as a first language, then it would stand to reason that i would learn german easier and find it closer to my own tongue than chinese or arabic. if i spoke spanish as a native speaker(it is my second language) then obviously i will find one of the other romance languages to be simpler than english or chinese especially. a chinese person does not find chinese hard. and they would have a lot less problems with another oriental language than someone speaking a western european language since birth.
does this make since? i have heard that there are lists put out by military and such that lists the difficulty level in learning foreign language. has anyone ever seen or heard of one? i personally have not.
i think it depends on exposure. and of course, just as some are good at math(while i have to use my toes to count past ten because i run out of fingers)some are better at language learning.
it all depends on the native language.
first of all, when someone talks about language difficulty, then they automatically mean as a second language. of course, the easiest language is the one you speak at home from birth. after that it would depend on your native languge.
what is mean is this. if i speak english as a first language, then it would stand to reason that i would learn german easier and find it closer to my own tongue than chinese or arabic. if i spoke spanish as a native speaker(it is my second language) then obviously i will find one of the other romance languages to be simpler than english or chinese especially. a chinese person does not find chinese hard. and they would have a lot less problems with another oriental language than someone speaking a western european language since birth.
does this make since? i have heard that there are lists put out by military and such that lists the difficulty level in learning foreign language. has anyone ever seen or heard of one? i personally have not.
i think it depends on exposure. and of course, just as some are good at math(while i have to use my toes to count past ten because i run out of fingers)some are better at language learning.
it all depends on the native language.