pezus said:
Mnementh said:
Lumikki said:
I also learnt Russian in school and I think it's not the easiest, but in the same time it's the hardest language. For example I think German was much much more trickier than Russian. There's lots of irregularity in grammar and not always the words are pronounced as written (o is sometimes pronounced as a etc). I could say that if you learn the cyrillic alphabet you will notice that Russian has borrowed lots of loan words from German/English/Swedish/French and it easies the learning a lot if you are familiar with those languages. I haven't either used Russian for a long time and starting forgetting.....
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As I'm german, I have no problems with it. But I agree, most foreigners I know claim german is very hard to learn.
@pezus: I can't Icelandic, is it really that hard?
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It is. Infamously so. Even for a lot of Icelanders. I can't imagine trying to learn it if I came from England/USA, for example.
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From what I read up just a few minutes ago, Icelandic should be easier for English speakers than some others. Also, it says it's subjective as they say learning any language is "hard." Some are easier than others, but there isn't really a hardest one.
It goes to explain that declensions are probably the reason why it's considered so difficult.
