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Hardest european language to learn? Dutch
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Hardest european language to learn?
Dutch
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not even close

hungarian is the worse
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I'd say Polish.

Slavic pronouciation + declensions + unlike Russian, they have a fuckton of tenses and moods

Or Hungarian, maybe.
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>>58988236
"no"

It's probably Archi.

>It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives and voiceless and ejective velar lateral affricates and a voiced velar lateral fricative. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes and has a remarkable morphological system with huge paradigms and irregularities on all levels.

>Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.
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>>58988236
Finnish.
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I guess Icelandic or polish is the hardest for at least japanese people.
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Probably finno-ugric languages such as finnish/estonian/hungarian
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>>58988274
What tenses does polish have?
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Finnish/Hungarian
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>Not basque
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>Not portuglandese
You fags couldnt if your life depended on it
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What is basque
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>>58988578
http://www.learnpolishfeelgood.com/polish-verb-tenses.html

So Past, Present, Future, Conditional + Perfective/Imperfective, + Gerundif etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_grammar#Verbs

I'm learning Russian and at least you guys only have 2-3 tenses
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>>58988680
Portuguese sounds like a weird Slavic language. I bet it's easy to learn.
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>>58988274
at least we have nasal vowels

>tfw only two nations able to pronounce hon hon hon are Frenchmen are Poles
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>>58988728
You lost a bet then, trust me m8 you cant
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>>58988236
what's this map about
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top kék
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>>58988236
Anything Finno-Ugric
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>>58988806

muslim majority areas
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Nigger try Estonian
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>>58988983
i don't think so, amsterdam's coloured green
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>>58988236
>Niet basque

Neger wat?
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>>58988806
yes vs no on the ukraine referendum
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Finnish/Estonian/Hungarian твн.
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>>58989023
>basque
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what was that one language in eastern europe that requires pronunciation coach for children to accurately say certain sounds? i believe it was either czech or slovenian. that sounds pretty impossible to master as a foreigner
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>>58988711
All these categories exist in Russian as well. The only difference is that Polish uses agglutination more often:
[ja] poszł-a-by-m = ja by poshl-a
but at the same time:
ona się uczy = ona uchit-sia
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>>58989203
Urk dark red
Kek
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>>58989505
The only pronunciation coaches for children I've heard of are those who correct speech impediments. Still, Slovene is pretty hard for foreigners because of how different the standard/literary language is from dialects.
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>>58988236
Are we going for Indo-European or European by geography?

If geography, probably Hungarian.
If Indo-European, probably Polish.

>Dutch
>hard
Neger, alsjeblieft.
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>>58988236
Basque seeing as it's a spooky language isolate
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>>58990390
It looks like an alien language doesn't it?
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Even fucking German is harder than Dutch.
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Dutch is just meme English + German

>ik ben
>neger wat
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Just because Moroccans can't learn de and het doesn't mean Dutch is a hard language.
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>>58988781
Portuguese does have nasal sounds too tbf, the reason they wouldn't be able to pronounce hon hon hon is the lack of a h
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>>58990933
I don't get why people have so much difficulty learning it, it's literally just getting used to it. I'm saying that as a Southern European living in the French speaking part; people here don't even try to learn the different articles.
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>>58991392
>>58991509
not the same person btw, I'm Spanish.
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>>58991392
Oh but we can, portuguese is the most articulate language of all, which makes it easy to learn any other language, we dont have a problem saying a single letter differently
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>>58991550
There are too many of us desu

>>58991576
I don't know m8, my parents really struggle with pronouncing correctly many French words. Don't even let me get started with the different nasal sounds, r and h
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>>58991576
Portuguese is literally just slighly more difficult than spanish.

Anyways, my vote goes for czech

>7 cases
>that r with a mark sound
>consonant clusters
>there are no hard rules for gender, declension and conjugation.

I'll be trying to learn it after german, but I'm already suffering.
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>>58988934
>-käyttöisyys
>Untranslatable
Usability

Monikättöiysyys
Multi-usability
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Basque?
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>>58990760
this
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Eh, Dutch is easier than German.
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>>58988796
Think about Brazilian Portuguese then. That's easier and has a bigger community.

>mfw I'm Portuguese
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Our verb system is pretty convoluted, but we lost most of the cases, so I guess it's a fair trade.

So I'd say the hardest would be some meme language like Finnish.
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>>58988236
probably finno-ugric, since we are like the only european countries that speak non-european language and that makes our language so much more different from other european nations
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>>58990760
>Not realising Diets existed before German

Kek

German is the meme language here.
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