Is English the hardest language to learn?
No, though it's up there.
>>7736644
Nah its piss easy.
>>7736644
That depends more on the persons native language, for English as a second language. For children, I have heard that /r/ is a hard sounds for them to learn.
>>7736700
i don't know m8, my native language is spanish and yet here i am shitposting like any other of you.
>>7736700
what's wrong with his tweet? grammatically, at least.
well, maybe it should've been a colon instead of a period, but hey.
>>7736711
>what's wrong with his tweet?
>adjectives
>adjectives
goddamnit /lit/ I thought you were better than this
>>7736644
If your native language is either Germanic or Latin you have some advantages. Also there is a fuckload of learning material and teachers no matter what your native language is.
>>7736720
>if your native language is Latin
All 100 of them?
>>7736722
You know what I meant senpai ;_;
>>7736711
those aren't adjectives
>>7736644
Yeah, I'd say English is pretty difficult.
>>7736711
It would make sense if it was spoken.
Probably easier than most other "easy" languages (languages that take around 600 hours to learn for a European, like Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, French) because of its lack of gender and low number of pronoun morphing depending on case (anyone who's learned/learning German will name this as the greatest difficulty).
If you're some Thai subsistence farmer learning it in his late 50's, then yes, English is pretty difficult to learn in the same way computer programming is difficult to learn.
t. Polenta-eating Veniceman
English grammar is pretty damn easy. The pronunciation can be really fucking hard though. Basically there are no rules as to how you pronounce things since English has borrowed words from so many different languages
Difficulty depends on native language(s), as pointed out here (>>7736687).
Generally a language is as difficult as it is historically different. For example, it's easy for an English speaker to Sanskrit (Indo European language) than Vietnamese.
>>7736644
English is too bastardized of a language. It's a Germanic language skeleton fleshed out by a vocabulary core based on Romance words combined with shitton of other foreign terms that entered into daily speech for hundreds of years. To use English well (grammar, punctuation, spelling & all) is probably much harder than most other European languages.
