Troll_Whisperer on 15 April 2012
| spurgeonryan said: What would you all say is the hardest language to learnt? |
Copy/pasted from a website: "In a study conducted by the British Foreign Office, Basque was ranked as the hardest language to learn. Geographically surrounded by Romance languages, it is one of the only language isolates of Europe, with no syntactic parallels to English. The regional dialects are highly diverged, though a standardized Basque is used for media and academics. Like many languages on this list, Basque is agglutinative, meaning that words are formed and modified with prefixes and suffixes. While “law” is lege in Basque, the phrase “according to the law” would be structured by suffixes as “legearen arabera.” Instead of prepositions, Basque uses cases endings to show the relationship between words, such as mendi (mountain) and mendira (to the mountain). It sounds simple, but with eleven cases, each taking four forms, the grammar is complex. Basque is written in the Roman alphabet and pronunciation is fairly easy, even with new consonant sounds like tx or tz. " Basque is my second mother language! (with Spanish). It is fucking hard, to the point where native speakers can fail exams that are meant to demonstrate you speak Basque.
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