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| Zorrillo Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 6389 days ago 41 posts - 82 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Sign Language, Spanish, Polish Studies: Greek, Georgian, Indonesian | Message 25 of 29 02 January 2011 at 2:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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I generally agree with the summary of Georgian by sjheiss. The verbs are extremely complicated; it seemed to me that only about half of verbs are regular. Georgian verbs are the most difficult thing I've encountered in my language adventures to this point. They seemed to make no sense whatsoever to me. I felt like I had no rule to rely on, I couldn't assume anything...every verb had to be memorized.
The rest of the language is more moderate in difficulty. I do plan to revisit the language again, because I love it, so perhaps the second experience will go better. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6145 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese | Message 26 of 29 02 January 2011 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
I thought that one might cause some controversy. Personally I've found that Arabic words are just easier to learn (maybe because there are many Arabic loan words in many languages, notably Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian in my list) and the spelling is much more phonetic - this also has an impact on the ease of deriving complex forms from basic roots. MSA is a very regular language once you learn the rules. Also the methodology for teaching Arabic is much better as most books introduce you to the grammatical terminology early on, whereas the Hebrew books I've used try to avoid the issue. Finally, as I said, I'm just rating MSA; if you want to function in the Arab world you'll need a dialect, which probably entails learning another 15-rated language 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rad Newbie United States Joined 5619 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: French | Message 27 of 29 02 January 2011 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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1 English
2 Italian 2 Spanish 2 Dutch 4 French 5 German 8 Polish 9 Russian 9 Ancient Greek 10 Arabic The problem with this list as others have mentioned is availability of resources as well as prior experience with languages. Although I know French fairly well, I studied it for 6 years in school. Spanish and then Italian came later. I studied on my own and have not taken them to more than an early intermediate level. Latin could be in there too because I had it in high school and have dabbled with it since, but I can't seem to get excited about it. Greek, Arabic, and Dutch are more recent studies. Greek was/is mind-boggling still after 6 years. The only thing that puts it ahead of Arabic right now is that the alphabet is more recognizable. Arabic doesn't seem so daunting, but then I'm just getting into verb forms. I'm only a couple months into Dutch, but every day I am amazed that already I can make out news articles. I had forgotten that languages don't always have to be mind-benders. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5860 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 28 of 29 03 January 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Growing up in a bilingual environment where I need to pick up English and Chinese as a
child, my rating may be very puzzling to most people here in the forum. Nevertheless, I shall post my rating here: 1) Chinese 1) English 2) Spanish 3) German, French, Japanese 4) Malay 5) Russian 9) Korean (tried) 10) Arabic (tried) I have only tried Arabic and Korean but I find it difficult to retain anything I read or listened. Hence, I listed them here as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5127 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 29 of 29 07 January 2011 at 8:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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1/5-Mandarin* 4-French Mandarin has a 1/5 rating because speaking and listening was easy for me, while learning to read and write has been torturous for me and even after much practice my skills are terrible. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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