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<blockquote data-quote="marty" data-source="post: 972371" data-attributes="member: 8934"><p><strong>RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your question doesn't make sense. I don't want to offend you, it's a common misconception. There are no "easy" and "hard" languages. Every language is easy and hard at the same time.</p><p></p><p>There are certain aspects that make a language look easy or hard. What cause the biggest difficulties are the differences between one's native tongue (or other foreign languages one has already acquired) and the target language. So Spanish could be considered "easier" for a native English speaker than Japanese. But the same doesn't apply to a native speaker of Korean. Japanese would be "easier" for him than Spanish because the writing system and grammar are much closer to his native language than Spanish.</p><p></p><p>But other factors come into play, too. For certain English-speaking people Japanese would be "easier" to learn than Spanish, if he has no interest in said language but absolutely passionate about Japanese anime, manga, history or whatever. He would find it much easier to dedicate thousands of hours to master the language, although logic would dictate it should be harder for him than Spanish.</p><p></p><p>The other limiting belief I'd want people to get rid of is that a language is hard to learn. It isn't. There are certainly millions of people (in most cases) who had acquired it as either their mother tongue or as a foreign language. You can do it, too. All languages are constructed using the same elements, there is nothing inherently difficult about it. If you spend years learning a language and you can't speak it fluently (I could write a long article about what that really means) or read a book written for adults, you are doing something wrong and it's not the language's fault.</p><p></p><p>Now back to the original question, is Hungarian or Polish harder to learn? Let's assume it's an English-speaking individual we're talking about - they are basically the same. Both are quite different from English but still European languages with Latin alphabets, so you should find a lot of things that are similar to English. Pronunciation is really straightforward in both languages once you've learned the sounds and how the spelling works. You should rather concentrate on the easy aspects - every language has a ton of these and not on the difficulties, it will make your life much easier. Moreover there are a ton of native speakers of both languages who have learned English. Surely it can't be much harder the other way around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marty, post: 972371, member: 8934"] [b]RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president[/b] Your question doesn't make sense. I don't want to offend you, it's a common misconception. There are no "easy" and "hard" languages. Every language is easy and hard at the same time. There are certain aspects that make a language look easy or hard. What cause the biggest difficulties are the differences between one's native tongue (or other foreign languages one has already acquired) and the target language. So Spanish could be considered "easier" for a native English speaker than Japanese. But the same doesn't apply to a native speaker of Korean. Japanese would be "easier" for him than Spanish because the writing system and grammar are much closer to his native language than Spanish. But other factors come into play, too. For certain English-speaking people Japanese would be "easier" to learn than Spanish, if he has no interest in said language but absolutely passionate about Japanese anime, manga, history or whatever. He would find it much easier to dedicate thousands of hours to master the language, although logic would dictate it should be harder for him than Spanish. The other limiting belief I'd want people to get rid of is that a language is hard to learn. It isn't. There are certainly millions of people (in most cases) who had acquired it as either their mother tongue or as a foreign language. You can do it, too. All languages are constructed using the same elements, there is nothing inherently difficult about it. If you spend years learning a language and you can't speak it fluently (I could write a long article about what that really means) or read a book written for adults, you are doing something wrong and it's not the language's fault. Now back to the original question, is Hungarian or Polish harder to learn? Let's assume it's an English-speaking individual we're talking about - they are basically the same. Both are quite different from English but still European languages with Latin alphabets, so you should find a lot of things that are similar to English. Pronunciation is really straightforward in both languages once you've learned the sounds and how the spelling works. You should rather concentrate on the easy aspects - every language has a ton of these and not on the difficulties, it will make your life much easier. Moreover there are a ton of native speakers of both languages who have learned English. Surely it can't be much harder the other way around. [/QUOTE]
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