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Your favourite language?

English 131 37.11%
 
Japanese 51 14.45%
 
Korean 4 1.13%
 
Italian 18 5.10%
 
Spanish 43 12.18%
 
French 21 5.95%
 
Russian 13 3.68%
 
Swedish 4 1.13%
 
Chinese 6 1.70%
 
Other (Post! :D) 61 17.28%
 
Total:352
Chris Hu said:
Slimebeast said:
Chris Hu said:
pezus said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Mr Khan said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Well, I have to praise the English system of always using "The" and having a "a/an"-system that actually makes sense.


...but my bias is far too strong. Svenska äger! (Swedish FTW!)

But English also has an incredibly arbitrary system for prepositions: In, on, for, from, and at are all very hard for non-English speakers to grapple with.


Really? Well, at least I had no problems learning English prepositions. Can't say I have seen others struggling with it either, on noticeable levels.

That's so minor compared to the struggles one has to go through when learning some more complicated languages.

English is very easy in general (compared to most other stuff I've seen), I'll give it a plus for that.

English is the easiest Germanic language and its a lot easier to learn then the second easiest Germanic language German which used to be my native language.  Its also a lot easier then Spanish which I studied for a couple of years.

German and Spanish are generally considered much easier to learn than English though.

In theory maybe, but in reality no way German and Spanish have much more complicated grammar rules then Engish.  Not to mentioned that most words in German and Spanish are a lot harder to pronounce.

No. What's your native background? As a Swede I felt that both Spanish and German were easier than English both grammatically and to pronounce. Especially Spanish, it's probably the easiest language in the world.



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Slimebeast said:
Chris Hu said:

In theory maybe, but in reality no way German and Spanish have much more complicated grammar rules then Engish.  Not to mentioned that most words in German and Spanish are a lot harder to pronounce.

No. What's your native background? As a Swede I felt that both Spanish and German were easier than English both grammatically and to pronounce. Especially Spanish, it's probably the easiest language in the world.

Is that true? I've heard lots of people have trouble with the conjugation of the irregular verbs.

I've always heard that English is quite easy, Spanish and German, not so much.



benao87 said:
spurgeonryan said:
American.

but if that is not a good enough answer then I will say Chinese is the Best to learn and Italian is a fun one to know.

Is that even a language?

OT: 日本語! Yup it's awesome. French is also quite nice, so is German. Now Spanish, probably as it's my native language I don't see it that special, but over the years I've learned how rich it is :)

"American"? I've never heard of that language either. It's probably some obscure native American language spoken by 27 people, no where near as good as English (invented in England). Infact anyone that speaks "American" probably wants to speak English.



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damn why you english people say english? isn't something like italian obviously much nicer?

english is not nice, it's just worldwide accepted^^



pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
Chris Hu said:

English is the easiest Germanic language and its a lot easier to learn then the second easiest Germanic language German which used to be my native language.  Its also a lot easier then Spanish which I studied for a couple of years.

German and Spanish are generally considered much easier to learn than English though.

I've never heard that. It's always been German>Spanish>English around here. Everything is available in English though so I guess that helps.

i also wonder, in germany we always get told german is one of the hardest languages to learn worldwide haha.

and to be honest, i did not often see someone from another country who could speak german almost like a german, it always sounds much different to a german talking german.

maybe it's easy for swedes, i can also understand a lot of a swedish text and i never learned swedish.



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Slimebeast said:
Chris Hu said:
Slimebeast said:
Chris Hu said:
pezus said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Mr Khan said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Well, I have to praise the English system of always using "The" and having a "a/an"-system that actually makes sense.


...but my bias is far too strong. Svenska äger! (Swedish FTW!)

But English also has an incredibly arbitrary system for prepositions: In, on, for, from, and at are all very hard for non-English speakers to grapple with.


Really? Well, at least I had no problems learning English prepositions. Can't say I have seen others struggling with it either, on noticeable levels.

That's so minor compared to the struggles one has to go through when learning some more complicated languages.

English is very easy in general (compared to most other stuff I've seen), I'll give it a plus for that.

English is the easiest Germanic language and its a lot easier to learn then the second easiest Germanic language German which used to be my native language.  Its also a lot easier then Spanish which I studied for a couple of years.

German and Spanish are generally considered much easier to learn than English though.

In theory maybe, but in reality no way German and Spanish have much more complicated grammar rules then Engish.  Not to mentioned that most words in German and Spanish are a lot harder to pronounce.

No. What's your native background? As a Swede I felt that both Spanish and German were easier than English both grammatically and to pronounce. Especially Spanish, it's probably the easiest language in the world.

I was born and raised in Germany and German was my native language for over 15 years then I moved to the US in 1988 and English is my native language now.  Swedish is much more complex then German, Spanish or English so that's why those languages seem easier to you.  But as a former native German speaker I must say that English is a lot easier then German or Spanish.



ahh and i forgot to say that it's italian for me, i think the language sounds wonderful and i don't care about the rest and if it may be hard to learn or something.



English because it's da bomb diggidy. And the women have such sexy accents when they or not native speakers or not from Norte Americano. Love the English, Australian, Slovakian, German and Russian girls voices. American is so banal.



crissindahouse said:
damn why you english people say english? isn't something like italian obviously much nicer?

english is not nice, it's just worldwide accepted^^

Exactly!

Now, regarding Italian, once you learn a romance language it gets easier to learn another one. So you might be interested in learning both Italian and Portuguese, or Spanish, or French :) 

I feel bad now, why can't I speak all those languages! :(



This is an absurd question to ask. I mean, no one here will know more than half a dozen languages at most. How are we to judge which is the best when we have near-zero experience or understanding of the vast majority of languages?
I can say that the answers English and Japanese are objectively wrong, though.
Japanese, as much as I may love it personally, is linguistically outright bad. The main writing system is borrowed from Chinese, with all the pronunciations being bastardized or existing Japanese pronunciations being shoehorned onto them, and the very existence of both katakana and hiragana is very silly since no self-respecting language should have such an absurd number of foreign words in it. Grammar and spelling is reasonably logical and consistent, but it ends up being far too simplistic in effect.
Also, it's crazy to say that English is the "best" language in any sense. It's not poetic, its grammar is the most disgustingly illogical, it has unnecessarily convoluted spelling... need I go on? It's basically what a drunk German man who hit his head in France came up with. "Everyone speaks it" is a lousy excuse to like it.
French, Spanish and Hindi, although I'd disagree with, are justifiable answers as far as I know.



 

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