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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 17 of 35 07 February 2015 at 2:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Russian hasn't fried my brain that much actually. There's a bunch of exceptions, but the
structure is still European enough that I found it easy enough to adapt to. Edited by tarvos on 07 February 2015 at 5:42am 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5381 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 18 of 35 07 February 2015 at 7:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, if one really could say there was a "most difficult language" - I think people would flock to it. People like us here on this forum anyway! :)
Of course it's all hypothetical, but plenty of people like a challenge. Although Navajo is pretty mind bogglingly difficult looking! Tarvos, out of curiosity, why do you find French the hardest? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kc2012 Diglot Groupie South Africa Joined 4474 days ago 44 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Dutch, Mandarin, Russian | Message 19 of 35 09 February 2015 at 9:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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What a question. Everything depends on your environment and availability of resources. For
example learning Chinese may be easier if you're living in China than learning French living in a non French speaking place for example? Obviously it's just an example. But yeah Russian is certainly a hard language but the fact that the writing system can be learned in a couple of hours (took me about 3, and another week or so to read it reasonably fluently) is such a big help! Being able to read a language gives you access to so much vocabulary. A year of fairly intensive study with lots of reading and listening can get you to a fairly good level in Russian,this is based on my experience. This is why Chinese frustrates me because the reading just slows you down so much! But then again characters are to be respected and I do enjoy studying them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 20 of 35 09 February 2015 at 11:49am | IP Logged | |||||
First one I had to learn properly. I was finding out more about myself as a language learning personality. I had many problems listening and conversing and it took me years to figure out what the problem was. And eventually I solved it. In all of my other languages it has taken me much shorter. German is a strange exception to that rule, but here the fact I'm Dutch comes into play. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 21 of 35 09 February 2015 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
What was the problem? I'm curious now :) Dutch is my French. French is my German. Actually I started to study other languages because of Dutch. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 22 of 35 12 February 2015 at 10:25am | IP Logged | |||||
I was being way too passive. I had to actively use the language to get better. I thought I could just rely on my school knowledge and then speak French, but it wasn't the case. And I knew my grammar well, so that wasn't the problem either. The problem was that I wasn't used to situations where French was spoken colloquially and I simply had to get used to ACTIVELY speaking a language in order to be any good at it. Nowadays I speak much better French and it's pretty much all due to that realization. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 23 of 35 12 February 2015 at 2:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, I guess that applies to my Dutch too (with the difference that my Dutch grammar is
still basic). Edited by tristano on 12 February 2015 at 2:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 24 of 35 12 February 2015 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
I didn't know the subjunctive at the time and there were some other important things, but the speaking was more important. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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