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Green Booger · Nov 22, 2005, 12:00 AM // 00:00

Since elementary school, all my english teachers have told the kids how english is the hardest language to learn- my opinion - thats a bunch of bull doo. Im korean, and no i dont own at pvp, im only rank 5 and no i dont play 24/7 more like 1 hour at most per week. Back in korea when i was 9, i thought korean was hard to learn and im KOREAN! After i moved to america, i learned english within 2 years. I had straight As in english(yes i know i have alot of grammar mistakes here too but i dont care). What do u guys think?

heist23 · Nov 22, 2005, 12:02 AM // 00:02

english is tough because of all the extra crap ingrained in there, but hell.

Korean is kicking me in the ass. it's sad, too, because i'm re-learning my native language.

Lasareth · Nov 22, 2005, 12:02 AM // 00:02

Asian languages are much more difficult to learn than english, in my opinion. English would seem the simplest of what I've seen.

smokesilver · Nov 22, 2005, 12:05 AM // 00:05

I think Arabic would be a hard language to learn

FazeDx · Nov 22, 2005, 12:07 AM // 00:07

simplest is prolly english or spanish, Hardest is chinese. Trust me. Im chinese american studying all 3 languages. memorizing around 9000 characters ISNT fun.

fiery · Nov 22, 2005, 12:11 AM // 00:11

i think click click language is the hardest.

Lexar · Nov 22, 2005, 12:34 AM // 00:34

English is easy. Not much you can do wrong, anyway. I believe Russian is supposed to be very hard to do without grammar mistakes.

benmanhaha · Nov 22, 2005, 12:38 AM // 00:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by fiery

i think click click language is the hardest.

binary is tough also.
i think english is hard because of all the stupid extra rules, like silent 'e's and the what not.
ok well its not hard to me cause im american but i mean in general.

Xue Yi Liang · Nov 22, 2005, 12:52 AM // 00:52

Asian languages are not as complicated as you might think. The grammar much more simple than the Western languages - you don't have to conjugate verbs or mess with different pronouns or tenses. It's easy to figure out the basic way to say most things. The only hurdle might be the pronunciation which becomes second nature with practice.

You'll have to memorize tons of characters in order to read, say, Chinese but it's not impossible. I think it's much tougher for a Chinese person to speak English properly.

Farthest Point · Nov 22, 2005, 12:57 AM // 00:57

asain languages are easy. english is the most complex language. I dont know what all of you other people who say it isnt are talking about but you can ramble on.

heist23 · Nov 22, 2005, 12:58 AM // 00:58

in my opinion, though, Korean is easiest for anyone who's learned a Romantic language. there's a set alphabet with definite pronunciations, and after you memorize how the characters work with each other it's just down to memorizing vocabulary.

:P sometimes i wish i stayed FOB....

karunpav · Nov 22, 2005, 01:10 AM // 01:10

I honestly think that English is the most complicated language. Just the grammatical rules are enough to kill you. There are also more words in the English language than any other language. Plus the puncuation. I know that in Spanish, there are commas, periods, exclamation points, and question marks. That's it. And in Hindi, there are only periods, exclamation points, and question marks. Not so sure about Chinese, but there's my schpeel.

Shimus DarkRaven · Nov 22, 2005, 01:11 AM // 01:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by smokesilver

I think Arabic would be a hard language to learn

Arabic is very easy to learn if you put the time into it. I already know how to ask the basics, like where's the toilet and such, with less then an hour of study. Now, learning to WRITE in arabic..different story.

--The Shim

chris_nin00 · Nov 22, 2005, 01:13 AM // 01:13

English is the hardest hands down!

So many irregularities...

sino-soviet · Nov 22, 2005, 01:23 AM // 01:23

Based on experience, Asian languages are conversationally easy to learn. If you want to delve into the writing and characters and semantics of the alphabet however, its up there. English I would say is quite easy due to its mass appeal in media,books, internet, etc. Quite a few people only know English because they see it so often.

nightrunner · Nov 22, 2005, 02:34 AM // 02:34

I am actually finding Spanish much harder to learn than Japanese XD

chris_nin00 · Nov 22, 2005, 03:02 AM // 03:02

I actually found the two to be the same.

Lived in Japan for 9 years.
Two years of Japanese...
Two years of Spanish...

I found both of them easy

Easier than my English class

Hot Dead · Nov 22, 2005, 03:12 AM // 03:12

English is the hardest language that I know, all the "sh's""ch's""ph's" (and many others) are too wierd/difficult to understand/follow.
Serbo-croatian (serbian+croatian=serb-croatian) is the easiest language, what you hear is what you write and visa-versa. And in between fall all the other languages in the world....

The word "all" sounds like "ol", why not just spell "ol"? (English)
The word "svi" (all) sounds like "svi" and we spell it "svi" (serbian/ croatian/ serbo-croation/ bosnian [almost all slavik lang.'s])

Shukrut · Nov 22, 2005, 03:33 AM // 03:33

Depends if you concider only speaking or writing/reading as well.
In my opinion english is easier than french, german or italian... They sound easy at the first place but there are so many rules and grammar they actually become quite hard at the end.
Chinese is fun to speak but still difficult sometimes because of the tones (4 in mandarin and 9 in cantonese). One word that may sound the same has actually different meaning when you change your tone. Like the word "foo" can mean "tiger" with a tone and "husband" with another tone... The hard part is you can't read the way you speak. Like "juk sam" (putting on clothes in cantonese) is read "chun yi" from the written form.
It's true the grammar is simple but there's plenty of other tricks like quantifiers. The word "a" in english has several translations in cantonese as it changes along with the things it quantifies "yat ga tse" (one car "ga" is quantifiers) and "yat zek kai" (one chicken "zek" is quantifier)... And it all changes depending on size, shape etc... of things you're talkin about...
And a chinese guy needs to know around 3000 basic characters to be able to read the newspaper properly against 26 letters in english alphabet

Farthest Point · Nov 22, 2005, 03:35 AM // 03:35

There are so many exceptions in the english language its just just vocabulary its also grammar.