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<blockquote data-quote="El Chinito loco" data-source="post: 972376" data-attributes="member: 5462">RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right presidentThis language discussion is pretty interesting. It is generally true that learning a language is easier if it has many similarities to your native tongue.As someone who is fluent in speaking one asian language (Mandarin) and has some limited comprehension of another (Thai) I will say the hardest asian language to understand and learn is probably Vietnamese. There's no other asian language even close to it. I've tried to learn some words but it's a motherfucker to pronounce correctly.I've spent quite a bit of time there now and the tones are absolutely crazy to me. Next hardest tonal asian language might be Cantonese to pronounce correctly. Even when you go mandarin ---&gt; Cantonese it should be theoretically not hard to learn the speaking part but it is actually pretty hard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Chinito loco, post: 972376, member: 5462"] [b]RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president[/b] This language discussion is pretty interesting. It is generally true that learning a language is easier if it has many similarities to your native tongue. As someone who is fluent in speaking one asian language (Mandarin) and has some limited comprehension of another (Thai) I will say the hardest asian language to understand and learn is probably Vietnamese. There's no other asian language even close to it. I've tried to learn some words but it's a motherfucker to pronounce correctly. I've spent quite a bit of time there now and the tones are absolutely crazy to me. Next hardest tonal asian language might be Cantonese to pronounce correctly. Even when you go mandarin ---> Cantonese it should be theoretically not hard to learn the speaking part but it is actually pretty hard. [/QUOTE]

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