Easy and hard languages & the British Foreign Office

In this video I discuss easy and hard languages, giving examples of each and some in between. In order to express these ideas I use the schema used in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the United Kingdom.

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• commonwealth

[sweenkingandwow2]

is serbian hard because i've been studying serbian for 2 years now and its not exactly easy :/

[Torbyrne]

@sweenkingandwow2 The first Slavic language does seem to take longer to get to grips with. I had a similar feeling with Czech (my first of the group), but it is a case of plugging away at it and you start turning corners in the language, seeing patterns, repeating them and it eventually comes. Good luck with it! :)

[samgower]

Interesting. I learnt French and German in high school but I found French a lot harder to learn. I am learning Korean now and it seems second nature to me.

[Torbyrne]

@samgower I have heard a lot from people that they find it easier to learn Asian languages over European ones. It is interesting to see this and I can see many reasons for it. First of all it depends on what draws you to a language or culture and also how the language suits your style of thinking too. Sometimes a class 1 language just might may more sense to you as a native English speaker. Good on you for taking on Korean! Good luck with your studies! :)

[interlingua2]

@AlimeProductions

Japanese has a very complicated system of writing. More complicated than in chinese.

Grammar can be very hard if you want to talk fluently.

So, it is the hardest language of all.

[gsolis12001]

It´s funny. I am a native Spanish speaker and I think that Spanish grammar is extremely difficult for a native English speaker. And in my opinion English grammar is quite easy to learn, but English pronunciation is really difficult, especially American pronunciation.

[KungPowMeow]

I'm terrible with grammar, so I see Japanese as coming easier to me than say Russian or what not...

[Nintendoman851]

@Torbyrne Yeah, I am in the same situation as samgower. I feel like french (took 3 years in high school) is harder to learn than japanese, which I am into now about 1 year. I'm already at the same fluency level as I am with French now, it's really odd lol.

[FranLesPaul]

@appleism100 Not true! Croatian is the most beautiful language ever!

But yeah, Serbian's the worst! :)

[getitright24]

What is your race? Your amazing and inspiring!

[gasto5]

@TheFamous35 Get a Korean girlfriend. The are smoking hot.

[RuxandraLee]

Well... I'm a native romanian speaker but I traveled a lot, I had to speak other languages...Now I speak romanian, french, english and dutch... I also want to learn swedish, korean (I already know to write and read korean) & japanese. I find korean really easy, I never studied it at school, I studied it at home by watching korean dramas and movies.

[zungaloca]

Cual es el idioma mas descriptivo(por ejemplo en un libro, poder facilmente imaginar una escena tiempos si es mujer o hombre cuantos son etc)? y el mas contextual(un idioma el cual dependa de la situacion en la cual se habla "And then along comes Mary, and does she want to give me kicks, and be my steady chick" ves cuando esta escrito no se sabe que sentido tiene pero si este idioma se habla se puede deducir lo que quiere decir)?

[TheFamous35]

I speak English,French and Creole currently learning korean...any advice?