I have often heard people saying that English is an easy language to learn. I have also heard that Chinese is the most difficult, and many speakers of languages are proud to say that their language is one of the hardest of all. But is this true? Are some languages harder than others?I think It depends on many things...One thing might be harder, but another is simpler.
What do you thinf of it?There are a lot of answers that you can provide and things to say to this question, this is the opportunity to express about your language.
In my opinion i colud say that every culture has something to learn, there are different rules ans accents to differece...and this is the reason of why language change in rules, meaning and structure...
If im wrong...please tell me!!!Here we are to learn from our mistakes.....
I would say, English is easier to learn than French or Spanish. The use of time-grammar is easier in English, I think.
But it could be, that everyone defines difficult or not difficult in a very different way. Perhaps it depends on your own language.
So, I think, it would be easier to learn Spanish for someone whose native language is French, becaus there are some similarities in grammar.
Sometimes when I sit down and think about it, English is hard in some areas, and easy in other areas. Being a native I cant say for sure, but if I had to guess the hardest part it would be all the exceptions to grammer patterns we have. especially past tense. German has been troublesome for me because of all the cases. I'm still getting use to the fact that if I want to say "it" it could be "er, sie or es"
because I'm so use to just "it" and "it" has no gender, naturally I always want to say "es"
So, I would say if you want to talk about specific things and use nouns, german has been the hardest I've experienced so far, and for grammar, I'd think it might be english.
and if you want something surprisingly easy, try japanese. After you learn the basic alphabet its clear sailing. Almost everything follows the grammar pattern with 2-3 words in the entire language that could be exceptions
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and if you want something surprisingly easy, try japanese. After you learn the basic alphabet its clear sailing. Almost everything follows the grammar pattern with 2-3 words in the entire language that could be exceptions
Oh, perhaps I should learn Japanese^^ For getting a job it might be good if you can say: "I can speak Japanese."
I would disagree. I think probably the most difficult aspect of English for many learners is the way interrogatives and negatives are formed using a different auxiliary verb each time( isn't, doesn't ,didn't, hasn't, won't )etc. In Spanish, all you have to do to make a negative is prefix 'no' to the verb, for the interrogative, just change your intonation. I think most people find Spanish really easy - after all even Bush managed to learn it!
For me Spanish is really hard too learn. I took it last year in school.
But I think I've the most difficulties because I have to learn Spanish just within 3 years and not like English in 6 years...
Last year we learned how to say 'hello' and 'I'm...', this year we have to analyse texts.
to my oppinion every language we don't speak is hard (HARD!!!) to learn. Espeacially if it contains lot's of Ideoms an phrasal verbs we don't know.
The way we all decieded to go will be a hard one. This includes to learn and to learn and to learn more and more and more and more more again and again......
Depends. The stuff you just need to have a nice chat in english isn't difficult to me at all. But I'm still totally helpless when it comes down to texts / talks about politics or stuff like that. English is very similar to german in many cases, so I think that's why it's rather easy to learn. But I'll propably never learn any other language since I already failed pathetically at learning french for example
Chatting is another story. Okay it is a way to climbe in.
However the English language is full of ideoms and phrasal verbs we only can learn by exercising and reading/hearing as well.
If you want to speak English as perfect as possible you can't ignore public discussions about cultural matters and also political stuff in English/American societies.
So stay tuned!!!
Well, by "chatting" I mean "communicating". That includes discussions. All I was trying to say is that english is easy to learn but hard to master. And of course it's harder to learn political terms than simple vocabulary. I'm not ignoring anything and I'm tuned all the time. That's why I'm here
In my opinion,there is no difficult language to learn because to learn a language, one must have interest and desire then usual practice because as the saying goes ''Practice Makes Perfect.''So basically there are three things to learn a language:interest, desire and practice.
English is really easy in some ways: No gender... No adjective endings (I'm learning German - diese dieses dieser diesen diesem -- ahhhhhhhhhhh!) ... Simplified case system (I'm still trying to wrap my head around the difference between Genitive, Dative, and Accusative.)
But at the same time, the verb structure in English is very hard. See: (from English verbs @ wikipedia)
Present simple
Or simple present.
* Affirmative: I write; He writes
* Negative: He does not (doesn't) write
* Interrogative: Does he write?
* Negative interrogative: Does he not write? (Doesn't he write?)
Present progressive
Or present continuous.
* Affirmative: He is writing
* Negative: He is not writing
* Interrogative: Is he writing?
* Negative interrogative: Is he not writing? (Isn't he writing?)
Present perfect
Traditionally just called the perfect.
* Affirmative: He has written
* Negative: He has not written
* Interrogative: Has he written?
* Negative interrogative: Has he not written? (Hasn't he written?)
Present perfect progressive
Or continuous.
* Affirmative: He has been writing
* Negative: He has not been writing
* Interrogative: Has he been writing?
* Negative interrogative: Has he not been writing? (Hasn't he been writing?)
Past simple
Or preterite.
* Affirmative: He wrote
* Negative: He did not write
* Interrogative: Did he write?
* Negative interrogative: Did he not write? (Didn't he write?)
Past continuous
Or imperfect or past progressive.
* Affirmative: He was writing
* Negative: He was not writing
* Interrogative: Was he writing?
* Negative interrogative: Was he not writing? (Wasn't he writing?)
Past perfect
Or the "pluperfect"
* Affirmative: He had written
* Negative: He had not / hadn't written
* Interrogative: Had he written?
* Negative interrogative: Had he not written? (Hadn't he written?)
Past perfect progressive
Or "pluperfect progressive" or "continuous"
* Affirmative: He had been writing
* Negative: He had not been / hadn't been writing
* Interrogative: Had he been writing?
* Negative interrogative: Had he not been writing? (Hadn't he been writing?) or (He hadn't been writing?)
Future simple
* Affirmative: He will write
* Negative: He will not / won't write
* Interrogative: Will he write?
* Negative interrogative: Will he not write? (Won't he write?)
Future progressive
* Affirmative: He will be writing
* Negative: He will not / won't be writing
* Interrogative: Will he be writing?
* Negative interrogative: Will he not be writing? (Won't he be writing?)
Future perfect
* Affirmative: He will have written
* Negative: He will not / won't have written
* Interrogative: Will he have written?
* Negative interrogative: Will he not have written? (Won't he have written?)
Future perfect progressive
Or future perfect continuous.
* Affirmative: He will have been writing
* Negative: He will not / won't have been writing
* Interrogative: Will he have been writing?
* Negative interrogative: Will he not have been writing? (Won't he have been writing?)
Conditional
Or past subjunctive.
* Affirmative: He would write
* Negative: He would not / wouldn't write
* Interrogative: Would he write?
* Negative interrogative: Would he not write? (Wouldn't he write?)
Conditional perfect
Or pluperfect subjunctive/past-perfect subjunctive.
* Affirmative: He would have written
* Negative: He would not / wouldn't have written
* Interrogative: Would he have written?
* Negative interrogative: Would he not have written? (Wouldn't he have written?)
Conditional perfect progressive
* Affirmative: He would have been writing
* Negative: He would not / wouldn't have been writing
* Interrogative: Would he have been writing?
* Negative interrogative: Would he not have been writing? (Wouldn't he have been writing?)
Present subjunctive
The form is always identical to the infinitive. This means that, apart from the verb "to be", it is distinct only in the third person singular and the obsolete second person singular.
* Indicative: I write, thou writest, he writes, I am
* Subjunctive: I write, thou write, he write, I be
Imperfect subjunctive
The use of the old term "imperfect" shows that this form is so rare that it has not been integrated into the modern system of English tense classification. The imperfect subjunctive is identical to the past simple in every verb except the verb "to be". With this verb, there is an option, but no longer a necessity, of using were throughout ALL forms (i.e., I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, vs. I wish I was a girl).
* Indicative: I was
* Subjunctive: traditionally I were but now more commonly I was.
It's a long list... But it shows how difficult it is...
In German it's much simpler: "Ich habe dieses Buch gelesen."
