Curse

chris_nin00 · Nov 22, 2005, 03:37 AM // 03:37

Hoked on foniks wurkt four mi!

Farthest Point · Nov 22, 2005, 03:40 AM // 03:40

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Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Hoked on foniks wurkt four mi!

you realize by saying that, you just made everyone in the forum stupider

chris_nin00 · Nov 22, 2005, 03:44 AM // 03:44

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Originally Posted by Farthest Point

you realize by saying that, you just made everyone in the forum stupider

Remember its just the special olympics in the off-topic forum!

Arturo02 · Nov 22, 2005, 04:43 AM // 04:43

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Originally Posted by Green Booger

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?

I think it's all the tenses and phenomes.

TheEPIC · Nov 22, 2005, 04:54 AM // 04:54

Of all of the languages to come out of the European world, English is probably the hardest because it breaks so many of its own rules. I'd think any of the latin languages would be the easiest, from Europe, followed by German in a close second.

Note: I'm not including Russian as a European language, and it is probably ridiculously hard since you have to learn a different alphabet, cyrillic.

(And no I didn't read any of the posts above this outside of the first few so please do not comment that I posted something that someone else posted or anything like that.)

PieXags · Nov 22, 2005, 05:07 AM // 05:07

Hahaha, here's a thought. Maybe english teachers are just better at teaching their language than other teachers are at teaching other languages?

Aracos79 · Nov 22, 2005, 05:29 AM // 05:29

Romance languages are usually fairly simple due to their (fairly) standard rules, and the similarities between them. English is difficult because it is a "bastard" language. It's not truly Romance, or Germanic, or anything else. It's a combination of several different roots. That's why you get so many irregularities and very few standard rules. Asian languages are difficult due to the huge "alphabet". Instead of constructing words from letters, you start basically with the words themselves. This requires a lot more capability for memorization.

tuperwho · Nov 22, 2005, 05:38 AM // 05:38

While you wouldn't think so from observing how most people use it, I'd say English is on the easier end of things. Granted, to get it right is quite difficult, but to nail all the nuances of any language is tough.

In my experience, one piece that makes English easier than German for sure is that there are no genders for nouns. 'The' is always 'the'. No 'der', no 'die', no 'das', and no conjugations of them for all the different cases and such.

Xue Yi Liang · Nov 22, 2005, 05:45 AM // 05:45

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Originally Posted by Aracos79

Asian languages are difficult due to the huge "alphabet". Instead of constructing words from letters, you start basically with the words themselves. This requires a lot more capability for memorization.

First of all, asian "characters" are pictograms - you can often get a sense of a character's meaning from its component parts. It's not as difficult as you might assume.

But there are some alphabets in Asian languages (e.g. Japanese Hirangana, Thai Alphabet etc.).

Until you actually study a language it's hard to say if it's so difficult to learn. The grammar of Chinese, for example, is so simple you can learn the basic sentance constructions in one day. In western language you have to learn verb conjugations, tenses, pronouns and many other pointlessly complex constructions.

Gustav Gloomp · Nov 22, 2005, 05:45 AM // 05:45

turkish,persian,arabic,afghan,armenian and all the countries in the middle east have the hardest language to learn for others that arent brought up from those areas. their language sounds so alike (except armenian sounds more russian) some of the words are the same but it will be hard to learn it compared to english. english is the easiest language probably or italian or french.

Dralspire · Nov 22, 2005, 05:52 AM // 05:52

Languages - such a great topic. I could write without stopping for about a week. In a nutshell … I studied six and pass as a native speaker in three languages (English is not one of them

). During my studies (speaking/reading/writing), I have come to the conclusion that each language is as easy or as hard as you make it.

Accurax · Nov 22, 2005, 05:58 AM // 05:58

i tried to learn persian once... ...

lovely people
amazing food

annoyingly difficult language

Alone) · Nov 22, 2005, 06:04 AM // 06:04

Well, my English teacher in high school told me that English is a hard language because of how many words we have, and how many words that can have more than one meaning. And there were other reasons why it is hard above as well, breaking its own rules, going around, etc.

Oe reason why it may be easy to us is because we are surrouneded by it, and it's almost everywhere we read, hear, whatever. So it could be that one adjusts to it easily.

sybban · Nov 22, 2005, 06:08 AM // 06:08

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Originally Posted by Green Booger

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?

It' the hardest language because it has been massacred to the point where we have to have a slang dictionary. No other ethinic group destroy's their grammar the way we dude. I blame vanilla ice. Word to your mother

PieXags · Nov 22, 2005, 06:36 AM // 06:36

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Originally Posted by sybban

It' the hardest language because it has been massacred to the point where we have to have a slang dictionary. No other ethinic group destroy's their grammar the way we dude. I blame vanilla ice. Word to your mother

True dat, we're off da hizzle and...stuff, yo.

Yeah ok RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO that. Remind me not to do that anymore. English is a great language! It sounds so wonderful! People say french is so great sounding...PFFT! I hated french! (Now let me hide, before Witchblade finds me.)

Shukrut · Nov 22, 2005, 07:57 AM // 07:57

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Originally Posted by PieXags

People say french is so great sounding...PFFT! I hated french! (Now let me hide, before Witchblade finds me.)

FOUND YOU FIRST NOW DIE HAHAHA!!!

Omega_2005 · Nov 22, 2005, 09:02 AM // 09:02

Deutsch and French are quite hard IMO, but try beating the Korean and Japanese Kids language!

EDIT: The most easiest? look at 13375P34|<

LeftAlone- · Nov 22, 2005, 09:46 AM // 09:46

Well, I havent encountered anything too hard yet, though its not like I've been looking for such either.
Personally, English for me is just a language I started learning when I went to third grade (now I'm at the 11th) and the internet has helped too. I find it quite easy, and its definitely my favourite language.. Its so pretty ^_^

Here in Finland, all the teachers and tourist and even my neighbours parrot keep saying Ffinnish is the hardest language on Earth.. I say hell no.

ghostlyranger · Nov 22, 2005, 10:02 AM // 10:02

i think is about ur country educational system and when u learn a new language. Usually, young children learn languages faster than adult.

so there is no really a hardest language

Omega_2005 · Nov 22, 2005, 10:05 AM // 10:05

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Originally Posted by ghostlyranger

i think is about ur country educational system and when u learn a new language. Usually, young children learn languages faster than adult.

so there is no really a hardest language

True, but looking at curved or blocked symbols are hard to pronounce for some, including me oO