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<blockquote data-quote="scrambled" data-source="post: 972378" data-attributes="member: 8837"><p><strong>RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your two statements above contradict one another: no language is tougher, <em>but</em> they are tougher depending on who you are! (And yet--everyone is someone). You are now repeating a pointless abstraction that is irrelevant to our actual interest here as men trying to efficiently learn a non-native language.</p><p></p><p>You should contact the Foreign Service Institute, which gives diplomats 2-3 years of Japanese instruction (counting in-Japan studying) but only six months of French or Spanish; tell them, how wrong and foolish they are, because all languages are equal. Why waste years of superfluous studying, when all they had to do was ask you for your opinion on how language acquisition difficulty is only in our mind!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is grasping at straws; the word order comes about as complex languages are simplified, like Latin compared to modern Italian. The inflection/case system breaks down, and word order is required in order to make sense. It doesn't change the fact that English grammar is overall (the measure that really matters) far simpler than Hungarian. In my earlier response, I quoted a linguist who said all languages will beat you up, even a relatively less complex one. <strong>But yet, why do you now claim English is so difficult, when just a short while ago you claimed how easy it was to learn a language, after all, we all learned our native one when we were children!</strong> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/banana.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":banana:" title="Banana :banana:" data-shortname=":banana:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>------</p><p>The rest of your comments are various straw mans that are off-topic, but one more I cannot help but add to:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our educational system's faults, and the quality of students, has nothing to do with the relative difficulty of English speakers learning various foreign languages. You seem incapable of staying on point for a moment, and must stray to give misleading information, so long as you appear the expert.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scrambled, post: 972378, member: 8837"] [b]RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president[/b] Your two statements above contradict one another: no language is tougher, [i]but[/i] they are tougher depending on who you are! (And yet--everyone is someone). You are now repeating a pointless abstraction that is irrelevant to our actual interest here as men trying to efficiently learn a non-native language. You should contact the Foreign Service Institute, which gives diplomats 2-3 years of Japanese instruction (counting in-Japan studying) but only six months of French or Spanish; tell them, how wrong and foolish they are, because all languages are equal. Why waste years of superfluous studying, when all they had to do was ask you for your opinion on how language acquisition difficulty is only in our mind! This is grasping at straws; the word order comes about as complex languages are simplified, like Latin compared to modern Italian. The inflection/case system breaks down, and word order is required in order to make sense. It doesn't change the fact that English grammar is overall (the measure that really matters) far simpler than Hungarian. In my earlier response, I quoted a linguist who said all languages will beat you up, even a relatively less complex one. [b]But yet, why do you now claim English is so difficult, when just a short while ago you claimed how easy it was to learn a language, after all, we all learned our native one when we were children![/b] :banana: ------ The rest of your comments are various straw mans that are off-topic, but one more I cannot help but add to: Our educational system's faults, and the quality of students, has nothing to do with the relative difficulty of English speakers learning various foreign languages. You seem incapable of staying on point for a moment, and must stray to give misleading information, so long as you appear the expert. [/QUOTE]
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