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| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4913 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 6 05 December 2011 at 9:15pm | IP Logged |
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So next semester at college I want to start one of these languages... I was wondering from any of your personal
experiances which was harder. Hebrew or Russian? I pretty much weighed every other factor, and so far I'm definitely leaning towards Russian... but there's something exotic and ancient about Hebrew... even though I'm not Jewish. (BTW I am talking about modern hebrew, like that spoken by Israeli's on an everyday basis.) Also! if anyone else has anything to add about either language I would be very appreciative! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| floydak Tetraglot Groupie Slovakia Joined 4855 days ago 60 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Slovak*, English, German, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 6 05 December 2011 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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according to FSI, for an English native they're on the same level.
http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang uage-difficulty 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 5 of 6 05 December 2011 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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I am studying both of them (although I have much more experience with Hebrew), and I
would say it depends. Some things that are hard in Russian are easy in Hebrew, and vice versa. For example, Russian has a relatively complicated case system, while Hebrew doesn't really use case declensions. On the other hand, the verb system in Russian is simpler in than the one in Hebrew. In terms of vocabulary (ie. how similar it is to English), I suppose Russian is a tiny bit easier, being a European language. In terms of pronunciation Hebrew is much easier, unless you speak some Slavic language and can already articulate the Russian sounds. So basically it depends how you look at it. Anyway, good luck with whatever you choose!! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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