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@218kq

3 жыл бұрын

Just want to soil the first comments lol

@218kq

3 жыл бұрын

@@euphemiaadamson8375 i dunno the bureau list it on similarities to related language, even it's related if it not closely similar (in case German to English) it's listed as close rather than grammatically simple and easier in general but totally not related (Indonesian). I dunno that bureau would list coz tonal feature.

@ridossoromano9101

3 жыл бұрын

Arabic, Bengali, Chinese are hardest languages to learn. On the otherhand English, Hindi are easiest languages. And Russian, Hibrew two lovely language we should admire after English. And the truth is having too many people or nations on earth but we have only a handfull of languages that we speak across the globe..!

@robertimmanuel577

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you look like quentin tarantino so much

@pettyoffndebe163

3 жыл бұрын

Wow recent comments in a video thats 5 years old. Also I'm currently simultaneously learning spanish and french, so thanks for the help and I'll gladly check out the link

Native: German Easy: English, Dutch Very Hard: Humor

@Martina-Kosicanka

4 жыл бұрын

😀

@Septiccatgaming

4 жыл бұрын

You’re lucky you already speak German, your grammar is a pain in the ass to figure out.

@dragon5632

4 жыл бұрын

TURKISH IS VERY HARD

@Tommi414

4 жыл бұрын

If you’re a Native German speaker you have a huge advantage

@Madyetmellow

4 жыл бұрын

This was class 👏😂

A note from a Chinese speaker: Be glad your language has an alphabet.

@joedawg199

5 жыл бұрын

C2Lception Bopomofo exists...not that it helps much.

@magmagon5572

5 жыл бұрын

@@oliverzhang8737 no, bopomofo is used in Taiwan, Hanyu is used in mainland

@faizyusuf2470

5 жыл бұрын

@@magmagon5572 I thought they used Cantonese?

@magmagon5572

5 жыл бұрын

@@faizyusuf2470 wtf when did you get that idea? The Taiwanese use Mandarin (traditional form) and we also speak Taiwanese (hokkien), hakka, and some Fujian. In addition, Cantonese is not a written language but a dialect. Hanyu is a style of pronunciation using the Latin alphabet.

@chingiskhant4971

5 жыл бұрын

Tried Kanji. I feel it.

Native: Hungarian Easy: Nothing apart from English Hard: Everything. Very hard: Explaining people that I'm in fact, hot hungry. Impossible: Explaining people that we don't understand Finnish at all.

@kurade1096

2 жыл бұрын

You don't have to explain that you're hot and hungry, we already know that

@markbr5898

2 жыл бұрын

Not hungry?

@user-wp4oh3zn5e

2 жыл бұрын

Native : Roman.🇮🇹 Hard: tell the world that i dont understand Romanian.🤣

@markusketonen2412

2 жыл бұрын

As a Finn, I totally agree with the last one :D I think there's not many words anymore that are similar, I think "blood" was quite close in Finnish and Hungarian, "veri" in Finnish.

@kurade1096

2 жыл бұрын

@@markusketonen2412 od you agree with the flag of your country's air force?

Native: Slovak/English Easy: Slavic languages Very hard: Japanese, Chinese Impossible: Not being mistaken for Slovenia

@aliciavivi2147

Жыл бұрын

Ahh you must be from Czechoslovenia

@PhenixJoe

Жыл бұрын

I feel like it would be the other way around. Way more people know of Slovakia versus Slovenia.

@cl4re4d4ms

Жыл бұрын

Those pesky Slovenians!

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

The special name Karin and the words or and ova cannot be in someone’s name, and all unsuitable names must be changed!

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

My list of languages that I highly recommend, starting with the prettiest and then the easiest... ...Dutch & Norwegian (they are really perfect languages, like English / Scottish, with almost only pretty words and beautiful sounds, and should be learned with the soft G and the soft / Americanized R, and are very poetic and refined, so they are a must-know, just like English / Scottish) ...Swedish (it’s almost as pretty as Norwegian, but it’s easier to read Swedish words after learning more than 3k Norwegian words, so that’s why one should start with Norwegian, as most Norwegian words are very easy to read and memorize) ...Portuguese / Galician / Catalan / French / Occitan / Esperanto (most words are very pretty words, a bit more prettier than many Spanish words, even though Spanish is way easier to learn, and one should definitely choose a more open / non-nasal pronunciation / soft R tho, because a soft accent with open vowels can make these languages sound so good and pretty) ...Frisian / Afrikaans / Luxembourgish / German / Limburgish (very pretty words in all these languages, even though a lot may find German grammar more complicated, and by the way, one should use a soft R and soft G, which will make them sound so pretty) ...Spanish / Italian / Corsican (lots of pretty words and many neutral words, and Spanish is definitely the easiest Latin language to learn, which makes it a great option to start with, and Italian is as easy as Spanish honestly, from what I’ve noticed, and I highly recommend a soft R in these languages and all other languages, which will make them sound very pretty) ...Icelandic / Danish / Faroese (very pretty words, but it’s easier to learn these languages once one knows Norwegian and Swedish, because they are not as easy to read as the other two Nordic languages, and the pronunciation can be more complicated in Danish, for example, which has many words and rules that are similar to the Norwegian word and others that are more similar to the Swedish word, so that’s why they should be learned after learning a lot of words in Norwegian and Swedish, and, Icelandic is a bit easier to read than Faroese) ...OId Norse / Latin / OId English / Norn / MiddIe English etc (I highly recommend learning at least one of these languages, even though they aren’t used a lot nowadays, and all other Germanic languages that I didn’t list here, but I have them on my list tho, and they are interesting, and can be used in poetry / lyrics because they are very poetic sounding, so I am going to learn them all, plus I already know a lot of words in Middle English, which I use in many of my lyrics, and I can understand it because it’s mostly the spelling that is a bit different from Modern English, but OId English is completely different tho, so it’s more similar to German) ...Welsh / Scots Gaelic / Irish / the other Celtic languages (I recently found lyrics and read words in these languages, and they seem very interesting, have so many pretty words, from what I read, even though they have almost no similar words to the words in Germanic languages and Latin languages, so they are completely different, and kinda have an elf-like sound to them, so they are perfect for me, but I also recommend them to all because they sound very poetic, and can probably be learned in a few years, I don’t know, but I seem to be able to remember the words I learned so far, so they don’t seem difficult to memorize, but they are definitely more difficult to spell than to memorize tho) ...Hungarian (I know two songs in Hungarian that I learned years ago, so it doesn’t seem that difficult to memorize, and many words are so pretty, so I would definitely recommend this language, which is very different) ...Finnish / Estonian (these two languages have a lot of pretty words and a lot of neutral words, even though other words aren’t pretty and are opposites, but I would recommend at least the pretty words and the neutral words, which I am also learning) And, I also recommend learning the pretty words from Indonesian & Filipino & Sundanese, because these three languages have a mix of very pretty words, as well as lots of neutral words, but then they also have a lot of funny words that are not pretty (so a lot of opposites too) but, I am definitely learning all the pretty words that I find, which can be used mixed with other languages and in poetry / lyrics!

Native: Italian Easy: Spanish, French, Portuguese Hard: Telling people I don't say, "MAMMA MIA!" Every 5 seconds

@mnek4433

3 жыл бұрын

Squadra zurra or something like that lol

@Squid_y

3 жыл бұрын

*IT'S A ME MARIO*

@Brother_Nazarite

3 жыл бұрын

BADADABOOPI!!!👉☝🖐👍👐👏

@JoseGomez-ys3zs

3 жыл бұрын

That's what's up. Latin is one of the kind of ethnicities with beautiful languages.

@skylight0656

3 жыл бұрын

Lol xD

Native: Python Easy: JavaScript, HTML Hard: Telling people no, I can’t fix your printer

@rubenb8653

3 жыл бұрын

this is painfully true.

@jahndoe679

3 жыл бұрын

javascript is easy? you only grasp the basic thing and you call it easy

@farkler4785

3 жыл бұрын

@@jahndoe679 it’s a joke

@warrenl4196

3 жыл бұрын

underrated

@efigueroa2526

3 жыл бұрын

Gets a computer science degree. Works running cat5 and crimping RJ45s.

Any language from an old civilisation is not “easy”. I am able as an English speaker to speak to taxi drivers in French and German and in the past Spanish and Turkish. There is no way I could have a philosophical conversation or read their literature. At 75 yrs old and super duper educated I am still learning English.

@bishplis7226

Жыл бұрын

who invented english? cmon please think

@JohnPaulHatterTheSecond

10 ай бұрын

​@@bishplis7226me

@Thespikedballofdoom

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnPaulHatterTheSecond can you make a mod for it so i can communicate with other languages too

@jawad9757

9 ай бұрын

​@@JohnPaulHatterTheSecondI will find you

Native language: Arabic Very hard: Arabic

@suhridguha2560

5 жыл бұрын

XD that's rough

@suhridguha2560

5 жыл бұрын

Same with me , I can read and write english and French pretty easily but I have trouble reading my native language bengali. Too many language markers so the spellings make no sense at times.

@JAYZ999

5 жыл бұрын

Drive Home Honestly lol it’s just that formal Arabic and its grammar rules are hard and very very strict. Without practice they’re easy to forget. Normal people can do it but they make many mistakes (especially cuz Arabic dialects are quite different from formal). Hell I probably write better formal English than Arabic.

@suhridguha2560

5 жыл бұрын

@@JAYZ999 that would probably be the same case for me. Some of the Americans/british people have no regard for their own grammar. Most people don't even know whether to use "there" or "they're" in correct places. That's like basic grammar rules :3

@JAYZ999

5 жыл бұрын

Drive Home Yh and unlike English, formal Arabic grammar rules almost NEVER change with time (still the same as around 1000 years ago). So while what we speak has changed a lot overtime (although not at all as much as other languages because the Quran’s existence restricts too much change in the language), writing hasn’t and that’s where the problem lies.

Native: Arabic Easy: English, Dutch Hard: telling people we don’t ride camels to school.

@GloriousDestiney

3 жыл бұрын

Omar AB exactly.

@codenameeaglecooldown900

3 жыл бұрын

Anjayy haha

@leonardolima1572

3 жыл бұрын

But would be awesome , anyway I'm Brazil and here isn't only soccer and Samba , I really understand you guys hahahaha

@JAYZ999

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we do bro why you misleading. I have the new full option 2x2 hump.

@omarab865

3 жыл бұрын

j a 2x2 hump only? Man I’ve got the 6x6 hump V12 camel, has 6 legs and goes 0-100kmph in under 3 seconds

Native language: English Easy to learn: Spanish, German Hard to learn: Every language without the Latin alphabet

@fanaticofmetal

Жыл бұрын

Not true at all, Tsakonian is a language spoken in Greece which uses the Greek alphabet and it's easier than English

@seaserenity5971

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@kumori_77

2 ай бұрын

honestly learning a different alphabet isn’t that hard, it’s easier than it sounds anyway i learned hiragana and katakana easily within a month or so

@egwuregwu

Ай бұрын

​@@fanaticofmetalso it's easier for english natives than english?...

Hi I love watching your video. I’m Japanese, when I learned English it was extremely hard of course the English grammer was crazy for me BUT the culture!! Sometimes I feel like in order to well understand the phrase we need to understand the thoughts of speakers behind the phrase and this was so hard for me.

@mapinoita279

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! I teach adult Japanese students online, so it’s always so helpful to hear a learner’s perspective. Your English seems great!

@LifetimeDisaster

Жыл бұрын

English sounds like hell to learn if you don't already speak a language that shares a lot of words with it. The spelling is also crazy, you've got these words: rough, though and thought; all of which have drastically different pronunciations

@thiagohenriquesimoes411

Жыл бұрын

I'm brazilian and I'm currently learning Japanese. I loved the japanese at first sight, the sounds are very easy and fun to learn from a portuguese speaker, but the japanese grammar is really hard hahaha. I love the way japanese think to make phrases. Cheers from your friends in Brazil 🇧🇷❤️🇯🇵

@sydneyliu4825

Жыл бұрын

Actually Japanese grammar is crazy too...

@peace-now

Жыл бұрын

I am from New Zealand. The English culture is complicated for us also. 乾杯

Native: arabic (egyptian) Easy: English, German, Danish Hard: telling people that I can't read old egyptian and that I didnt live in the pyramids

@ivanvera7039

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha lmfao... as Mexican I could say Hard: telling people that we don't go to school on donkeys and we don't live in smalltowns

@rolling_akam

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@hitsugayatoshiro9517

3 жыл бұрын

Pharoah want to know your location

@DMp-xp6mj

3 жыл бұрын

Tell Cleopatra hi from me 😂😂

@zaineb5565

3 жыл бұрын

Yo.. are you me or what? For me its Native: Arabic (iraqi) Easy: English,German, Danish (i live in denmark!) :)))))

Native: Thai Easy: English Hard: telling people we don’t ride elephants to school.

@WilsonTexasRager

3 жыл бұрын

I get the same thing with foreign students that come to Texas. They're like you do not ride horses and wear a cowboy hat to school?

@SoundAsleepSpace

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry but this comment is silly Yok. English is not the easiest language for Thai people to learn. The closely related languages to thai are other thai-gradai languages such as Lao, Isaan, Puu thai, zhuang, shan and many others. Then you have other distant languages but may be slightly more related or still easier than learning european languages, like cambodian, khmer, vietnamese, malay, even chinese

@chloepillay9626

3 жыл бұрын

Same Thailand and South Africa

@rexlapis3126

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoundAsleepSpace for HER , English is the easiest. I agree,cus' I'm Thai.

@defne643

3 жыл бұрын

lmao ikr

Native: English (from England) Easy: Spanish, German, Dutch Hard: Japanese, Chinese Impossible: Trying to tell people that I haven’t had tea with the Queen.

@justajona

2 жыл бұрын

ARE YOU SURE SPANISH IS THAT EASY? Spanish have 17 verb tenses

@WeAreNotExperts2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@justajona yes it is for me (I have been learning it for 3 years)

@justajona

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeAreNotExperts2007 Pues, felicidades

@bigb0yice

Жыл бұрын

u think german is easy 😭😭😭

@Didyouknowthatiexist

3 ай бұрын

​@@bigb0yiceyes

The easiest language is the one which interests you and which you are able to actively put a lot of time and practice into. I have always found German hard because of lack of motivation and practice, but actually found Arabic easier because I find it easier to practice and motivate myself.

@kipchickensout

Жыл бұрын

Na dann viel Glück damit

@LordGertz

Жыл бұрын

I am very interested in many languages, but back in day in school I, a native English, flunked French and passed German. I have since learned some other languages, but other than picking out words and a few phrases I recognize, my brain just won't comput French. I blame genetics, I had both ancestries, but modern DNA shows just so much more German in me. The fact that I look like a Hessian peasant should have tipped me off.

@nezukochan9524

11 ай бұрын

​@@LordGertzI don't think that ancestry has anything to do with it. I live in Poland and I cannot physically comprehend German (my family always knew it well) and I do quite well in French. It just depends on your predispositions

@anastassiosperakis2869

10 ай бұрын

NO. There are languages who interest me and which I find very easy (French, Italian) and others that interest me EVEN MORE and they are VERY difficult (Chinese, Russian). Your simplistic pablum is easy to say but this Video was FAR MORE SERIOUS than your comment.

@kipchickensout

10 ай бұрын

@@anastassiosperakis2869 Р.И.П.

Native: Spanish Easy: Portuguese, Italian, English Hard: Telling people that we don't speak Mexican

@amramjose

3 жыл бұрын

I am Hispanic, and I can speak Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Colombian, Mexican....😅

@GerardoLacouture

3 жыл бұрын

@@amramjose ...and Chilean?

@arandompig3997

3 жыл бұрын

You don't speak Mexican? Weak

@ElChaloYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@arandompig3997 I'm able to speak Mexican as well, but it's a secret of mine 😉

@mai0033

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao triste

My native language is from a Slavic group, but I think it's an illusion that other Slavic languages are easy when you know one - yes, there're lots of similarities in grammar, but when it comes to vocabulary, there are so many "false friends" and tiny nuances you intuitively get wrong, that for me it's way easier to start with something completely different. I wanted to write that English is easy because at least objects are not gendered (seriously, this is the most annoying and useless language feature ever!), but then I recalled how much trouble I had as a kid with all the things that don't sound the way they're spelled... ghoti = fish and all that. Persian is surprisingly easy to learn and it's very beautiful. I didn't expect it to have so much in common with my native language and Germanic languages! One of my favorite words is "setareh", which means "star". And it has no gender category at all, yaaaay!

@ivanpetrov5185

Жыл бұрын

Vocabulary is the easiest part in the Slavic languages. The grammar is nasty.

@ivani3237

9 ай бұрын

@@ivanpetrov5185 true. And because of this, learning language with almost same grammar is much easy, i understood it when started to learn polish, knowing russian.

Being native in Greek, having mastered English and German as a child, found the easiest ones to be Italian and Esperanto and the most difficult ones...Icelandic and Finnish. Being in contact with Russian from an early age I found it bearable.

@Coen80

Жыл бұрын

Σαν Ολλανδος, μετα απο δεκαετεια εδω στην Ελλαδα, ακομα το δυσκολευω με την γλωσσα. χαχα

@The_Ballo

Жыл бұрын

Why the hell would anyone speak Esperanto

@anastassiosperakis2869

10 ай бұрын

Also Born in Greece of Greek parents, Greek was my first language, ENglish the second (started at 9) and by now I know it even better than Greek, then I decided to try German at 15, had 5 years of slow courses (2-3 hours a week 6-7 months a year), then I was offered a free intensive course in French at 21, 40 days, 5 hours a day, we covered 3 years of lessons), then I studied other languages on my own (Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc etc, all at an elementary level). I thought Japanese was much easier than CHinese or even Russian.

@walasoaleatorio8237

9 ай бұрын

​@@The_BalloYou do not know? Esperanto is the easiest language in the world because it was made to be a language of world communication. That's why people learn.

@The_Ballo

9 ай бұрын

@@walasoaleatorio8237 It's a language twins teach one another except at least that language has a use as it's secret. Esperanto is the world's most useless language. Typical byproduct of socialist thinking.

native: russian easy: any slavic language hard: explain to foreigners that we are not alcoholics

@matiziutgamergameplayguy802

4 жыл бұрын

Taka prawda

@Mr-hs1ko

4 жыл бұрын

Are you sure about that?

@dandychiggins7370

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not convinced.

@alarianb

4 жыл бұрын

But we are

@adeleydunda

4 жыл бұрын

Don't try and convince us otherwise

Native: English Easy: English Hard: Literally any other language

@toxictwisst

2 жыл бұрын

Fax

@moniqueparker5384

2 жыл бұрын

It's facts

@itsanemmamergency7623

2 жыл бұрын

I just witnessed your 184th like. And now 185th due to me liking it also

@toxictwisst

2 жыл бұрын

@@moniqueparker5384 I'm talking about the machine

@Jonas-qg6jw

2 жыл бұрын

learn german or another germanic language

Native: romanian Spoken fluently: german and english Easy to understand: french, other germanic languages, other romance languages Hard: farsi, indo-european languages outside of Europe Very hard: arabic (although I'm half arab), slavic languages, fino-ugric languages

@ali_haidar_313

Жыл бұрын

Are you lebanese?

@_dina_rashad

Жыл бұрын

@@ali_haidar_313 No:)!

@vyrnius

Жыл бұрын

why are there so many half romanian half arab people? ^^

Native : French Extremely Easy : Toki Pona Very Easy : Esperanto Easy : Spanish, Italian, portuguese, English Normal : Greek Hard : German Very hard : Japanese, Arabic, Chinese Extremely hard : Sibo Gomero, ǃXóõ Impossible : Every single person I met in my life

@monophone903

2 жыл бұрын

Esperant' estas la solan lingvon mi aktuale konas mdr

@megadethfan18

2 жыл бұрын

i know toki pona yay

@PatagluKadolle

2 жыл бұрын

@@monophone903 vi parolas esperanton! mojosa ! ne estas facile trovi esperantistojn kun kiuj paroli

@PatagluKadolle

2 жыл бұрын

@@megadethfan18 sina toki ala toki e toki pona?

@jawatu6326

2 жыл бұрын

Greek is normal?

Native: Korean Easy: Japanese, Chinese Hard: Every other languages

@fleurdelacour491

Жыл бұрын

I was really looking for an Asian comment lol 😂

@feddy1103

Жыл бұрын

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@NiceBoaT_98

Жыл бұрын

중국어 어렵던데.. 한자 외우는거 너무 싫어서 전 차라리 다른 라틴계 언어가 더 편하더라구요. 일본어는 진짜 쉽습니다 ㅋㅋ

@byali4360

Жыл бұрын

Why is Japanese and Chinese easy? Aren't the Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages completely unrelated to each other?

@user-ng6vv2ki9w

Жыл бұрын

@@byali4360 They are not really related but they are in same Chinese character sphere. Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese can communicate even if they don't know each other's language through Chinese characters.

Native:English Easy: English Hard: Learning foreign languages

@foressekeeshjaramillo4783

3 жыл бұрын

Oop

@Khan-bf9zk

3 жыл бұрын

OMG!U R the only legend I could c in the whole section. So hard working yay!

@Thatlonelycara

3 жыл бұрын

Poor soul *Laughs in trilingual*

@kevinpan5525

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@Emiriko987

3 жыл бұрын

Joel where are you from?

Native: Hindi Easy: English, Urdu Hard: Explaining "Indian" is not a language.

@sheshystar9380

4 жыл бұрын

Hindi and Urdu are counted as dialects of the same language when statistics are collected.

@sunitajain1336

4 жыл бұрын

@@sheshystar9380 yupp.. They have like 90% similarity, I guess.. 🤔

@tapankalsariya1691

4 жыл бұрын

Hindi = Hindustani with Sanskrit influence Urdu = Hindustani with Farsi/Persian and Arabic influence

@fizishah5135

4 жыл бұрын

Whats about Tamil?

@vijitkothari6502

4 жыл бұрын

Friends, All Indians don't understand English very well, forget about speaking it. You play an English song and they wouldn't get a single line of lyrics, they can't understand a movie without subtitles or dubbing. So what this comment means here by "easy" is their level of understanding which is very crude.

I started French at age 13 (you have more capacity to learn when young). It seemed easy. I’ve dabbled in a few others. It took me 6 months to learn how to read Tibetan. I’ve forgotten most of my 3 years of it. Greek not so hard. Irish hard because I started in my 50s. The ones with all the unusual diacritical marks, like Romanian and Navajo, seem really hard. My Italian friend gave up on us because she hated how we said “aglio”! I know lots of polyglots, though I’m not one. A Ukrainian guy in my first Irish class was fluent in 6 weeks! My Bretonne/French friend had to speak a different language on 5 phone lines at a Paris hotel!

@skatiarhs007

2 жыл бұрын

η καταγωγή σου από πού είναι; Πόσο καιρό χρειάστηκες για να μάθεις καλά Ελληνικά ;

@mattemathias3242

Жыл бұрын

I believe actually it's only in like your 40-50's where learning gets hard. Maybe a bit optimistic but as an 18 year old learning dutch (as a dane) it's very easy to grasp and learn. Although your brain apparently only fully matures around 26 years old

Native: English (Canadian) Easy: English (American) Hard: English (British) Very Hard: Old English, Middle English Impossible: Languages that aren't English

@charlust6322

Жыл бұрын

What about Scottish, Australian or South African English?.... Hahaha +I almost forgot the Hindi English and the most complex, Engrish...

@murademrullayev03

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@beanapprentice1687

5 ай бұрын

Bruh… you’re Canadian, why don’t you speak French?

@dannyannet154

4 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

Native: Japanese Hard: any foreign languages Easy: watch anime without subtitles

@nasiaking

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you

@kaylaputrim.9703

4 жыл бұрын

How lucky u are 🙃

@galemara7990

4 жыл бұрын

Such powers I wish I had

@milys8902

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky! I wish...

@muhammadhaizir9367

4 жыл бұрын

You so lucky

Native: German Easy: English, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic Hard: History

@user-uq3um5nq7d

2 жыл бұрын

Okay, so first, Romans call you guys barbarians, then some Germans (Franks) made the Frankish Kingdom which is what you call France today... Wait a second...

@emiliakarlsson2972

2 жыл бұрын

Tjena, hur mår du?

@sugarx6687

2 жыл бұрын

why not finnish?

@tim9062

2 жыл бұрын

@@sugarx6687 because finnish is not germanic

@sugarx6687

2 жыл бұрын

@@tim9062 and what kind of langauge is it? slavish?

This video was uploaded 7 years ago and your videos were already this good and professional keep it up love your videos!

Fortunately, my native languages are both English and Mandarin Chinese. When I look at the FSI chart, I tend to look at it from both ends LOL. Category 1 and Category 5 languages (excluding Arabic) are supposed to be the easiest for me to learn, which ended up being quite true. Japanese was like a giveaway cos I could read most characters even without knowing their pronunciations in Japanese (speaking is a different thing though, and the infinite amount of grammar endings at the more advanced levels drive me crazy). Korean was also fairly easy to pick up, given that almost all high-level words have Sino origins. Malay (close sibling of Indonesian) was, as you said, fairly easy to pick up, due to the easy grammar, though I'm still working on listening cos the version of language spoken in real life is very different from what's written in the books. I feel it should be in category 1 though, cos it's culturally different from English, it has a lot of shared words with English due to the fact that Malaysian and Singapore were both former British colonies. Studying french now but progress has been slow so far, so I'm glad you said it's not been that difficult to pick up for you.

Native: Persian Easy: English Hard: telling people our carpets don't fly

@mavromarana

3 жыл бұрын

cAn YoU tElL mE wHeRe cAn I gEt thE fAstEst fLyIng CaRpEt???

@joshuametzl1420

3 жыл бұрын

@@mavromarana rIgHt tHiS wAy sIr.

@donaldjacobson4184

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@donaldjacobson4184

3 жыл бұрын

Or explaining whirling dervishes

@mavromarana

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuametzl1420 tHanK YoU

Native: American Easy: English Hard: What do you mean with "There are other countries in the world"?

@crusaderofthelowlands3750

4 жыл бұрын

I think he means the countries Europe and Africa.

@OP-1000

4 жыл бұрын

My Namo . No mate, you go woosh😀

@All6usto

4 жыл бұрын

yeah... countries are missing here from the start, I see

@Cami-ls1ki

4 жыл бұрын

This has to be one of the best comments

@Cami-ls1ki

4 жыл бұрын

Matey Petrov wooooosh

Native: Belarusian, Russian Easy: Ukrainian (Can understand without learning), Spanish (Very easy grammar + Pronounciation), maybe Polish (because of some sounds like PRZ, Ą, Ę, ŚĆ, also hard to read with that rules, so like medium) and other Slavic languages Extreme: Armenian (Alphabet), Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Xhosa (Just hear that alphabet) Impossible: Explain to Russians that we are not Bielorussia/Biełaruśia (Белоруссия/Беларусія), we are BELARUS/BIEŁARUŚ! (Беларусь)

@henryviii1978

2 жыл бұрын

Живе Біла Русь🇵🇱🇺🇦

@knyazofzhytomyr

2 жыл бұрын

В России Белоруссия и Беларусь тождествены и общеупотребимы. Конечно я привык употреблять слово Беларусь, но по-моему это очень странный и предвзятый доеб.

@nicka33

Жыл бұрын

По-белорусски может и так. В русском языке единственное правильное написание - Белоруссия. Соеденительной гласной "а" в сложных словах (с двумя корнями) не может быть, товарищь лесаруб с беларуссии.

@user-or2gh3bq1i

Жыл бұрын

@@nicka33 Ну официальное название-то Республика Беларусь

@nicka33

Жыл бұрын

@@user-or2gh3bq1i ну называй тогда Корею Хангуг, Японию Нихон, Китай Джунгуо, да? Киргизстан Кыргызстаном. США это вообще-то Юнайтыд Стэйс оф Омерика.

That was awesome. I was curios what you were going to say & you didn't disappoint me!

Native: Hindi Easy: English, Nepalese Very Hard: Convincing people that there is no language called "Indian".

@badoger1

2 жыл бұрын

acha...

@cosmic5934

2 жыл бұрын

huh, the more you know

@Artist_of_Imagination

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao true

@hurynaglaksh1545

2 жыл бұрын

?

@erromon4431

2 жыл бұрын

Indian have many languages, right?

Native: Polish Easy: Russian and Czech Hard: Existing on map during any conflict in Europe

@tajniakpospolity350

4 жыл бұрын

Please don't forget the easiest for us: Slovak

@glue_tastes_good5528

4 жыл бұрын

@@tajniakpospolity350 no tak

@livitiana5463

4 жыл бұрын

@@tajniakpospolity350 you clearly missed the main point xd

@tajniakpospolity350

4 жыл бұрын

@@livitiana5463 How come?:) Please enlighten me then.:)

@imacintoshplus6334

4 жыл бұрын

You missed the joke.. Poland never seems to last long in European wars

A long time ago, I was a university French major with my second language as Russian. After many years of French in high school & then in college, I found Russian very easy to learn. Once one has memorized the Cyrillic alphabet, I can still read Russian to a certain extent.

Interestingly, being fluent in English and Dutch, I found Spanish pronunciation really easy to learn because all the sounds (except one) exist in one or both of those two languages. For example, an English-only speaker will find the Spanish j difficult, but a Dutch speaker won't. Conversely, a Dutch-only speaker (do they still exist?) might struggle with the c and z in cerveza that the English speaker has no problem with. The only sound not found in either language is the Spanish r, which is made by the tongue behind the top teeth. The Dutch roll their r's in the throat, and the English don't roll them at all.

@mitchelbravo4702

Жыл бұрын

Being an Spanish native speaker, I can endorse what you stated. Dutch speakers are good in pronouncing Spanish in a soft-natural way. English speakers are also good with pronunciation, but tend to overenunciate some consonants. Besides letter 'R', I would also add the letters 'L' and 'T', we could easily identify non-native Spanish speakers by the way they pronounce these latter ones. PS: the correct writing is "cerveza", with a 'V'. It does not change the pronunciation but that's the correct syntaxing 🤪

@SpiritmanProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@mitchelbravo4702 Sorry! 😁 I knew it was cerveza but the speech centre in my brain hijacked the typing centre!

@IkkezzUsedEmber

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the proper r in dutch is a trill at the teeth. The throat "french" r is often used, but for a long time wasn't considered ABN (general sophisticated dutch), but recently has been accepted, but the trill r is used more

@Ceares

Жыл бұрын

At least AmEnglish speakers don't or shouldn't find the Spanish j difficult because of our stol...er borrowed words or commonly used Spanish words like jalapeno, and jefe and names like juanita and joaquin.

@SpiritmanProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@IkkezzUsedEmber I'll put it down to regional variations.

Native : French easy : English hard : French

@super_val

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I am french

@wherearehisjams7305

4 жыл бұрын

Literally same!

@coresdejordao

4 жыл бұрын

The same with portuguese, what a complicated language. Foreign english is much easier than my native language, portuguese (brazilian).

@MrRemo1313

4 жыл бұрын

Cyriod, i have a bad news: you have the "Aya Nakamura syndrom", no cure has been found, sorry for you poto

@cyriod7712

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrRemo1313 Mais nan c'pa vré ?! jvé mourir alor merd

Native:Hungarian Easy:English Hard:telling people that we are not hungry

@arabiyyah7965

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@davardy3661

3 жыл бұрын

Hungarian ah I see and respect you because it looks impossible to learn😂

@unbearabletruth4310

3 жыл бұрын

Stop lying, you guys are hungry, you're hungarians after all.

@azzambasharahil2272

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Fylnnn

3 жыл бұрын

Hungry 😂

I have always enjoyed your videos. Maybe its just a niche, but its my niche, and the work you do producing and recording these topics is meaningful to me. Thank you :)

Native: English 2nd: German (studied in college), B2 level 3rd: Russian, A2 level Definitely having extensive, classroom-based instruction in German makes learning Russian easier. The only new concepts were Cyrillic and case endings for nouns, rather than articles.

@jonathanbroussard8027

2 жыл бұрын

How hard was it to learn German

@melaniebrinson2365

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanbroussard8027 I didn't find it difficult. The standard four semesters in college was not adequate, I had to do a lot of outside exposure to the language.

@jonathanbroussard8027

2 жыл бұрын

@@melaniebrinson2365 ok thank you

German: Der, Die, Das, wieso, weshalb, warum English: the the the why why why

@amandaribeiro5145

3 жыл бұрын

It seems in Portuguese, but we have 4 whys hahaha

@hedyeh9229

3 жыл бұрын

Persian: blank blank blank

@dawidsz56

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@bernhard2345

3 жыл бұрын

@natalie storm no, it is just a very accurate language. if you dont get the differences, it is because you are not good at it.

@aoikishi2130

3 жыл бұрын

@@amandaribeiro5145 por que ,por quê, porque, porquê Brasil por que ?

Super interesting video. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing. Love your content

The easiest language is 'Italian' Just move your body, hands, make some expressions with your face and sometimes say: aaaeeehh !!!

@lajudiajodona1212

7 жыл бұрын

David Bandini Sorry To Disappoint But Isn't Italian= Spanish Is

@varadapuranik6427

7 жыл бұрын

your last name looks italian and you are poking fun at italian language...takes courage !

@lucanina8221

7 жыл бұрын

Italians just have to shut up.

@davidbandini3484

7 жыл бұрын

luca nina sssshhhhtt !!!

@Jason-hk6fx

7 жыл бұрын

vabbé l'autoironia ma l'italiano a livello base è un conto, ma la grammatica avanzata con tutte le sue eccezioni neanche gli italiani spesso la sanno.

Edit:Ok I felt bad for people who dont know what I wrote here so I'm writing it again. Native: Mandarin and Cantonese Easy: Japanese. Hard: Chinese characters. Impossible: trying to explain to people we dont say "chin chong" when we speak.

@Cuktisntfunny

3 жыл бұрын

That Cracked me up

@chairman3427

3 жыл бұрын

You do if you do

@szecr

3 жыл бұрын

Seems like your talking to some pretty idiotic people when they don't understand that a racist slur is not used in chinese

@cueiyo6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@chairman3427 we don't if we don't

@chairman3427

3 жыл бұрын

@@cueiyo6906 yes

Native: English (from england) Easy: Spanish, Italian (romantic) Hard: Arabic, Turkish Very hard: Japenese, mandarin (Chinese), cantonese Impossible: trying to explain to foreigners that we don't have a cup of tea with every meal

By far the easiest language I learned was Esperanto, which is an "artificial" language with a simple grammar and vocabulary drawn largely from European languages. Among national languages, I studied French and German, and later Spanish. The grammar and cases in German were impenetrable, though the vocabulary has a lot of similarity to English. Even though I've been exposed to French the longest, I found Spanish considerably easier.

@silvermeasuringspoons6462

2 жыл бұрын

That artificial language claimed that it’s gonna the new WORLDWIDE medium because it’s “easiest” and “make sense”, and I understand that but it’s MAINLY from European language. Which absolutely honest speaking from someone from lot different culture, “I’m offended”. Like how can you make such a claim, it’s so self-centered view.

@supersabrosinho

Жыл бұрын

@@silvermeasuringspoons6462 forget the fact that it's mostly made from euro languages. The issue is that it has no ethic, cultural, and religious ties. No history, no people to call it their mother tongue. It is a soulless, synthetic language lacking any human roots. Lol, even Quenya from LOTR had more substance

@hadylim

Жыл бұрын

I am from Surabaya Indonesia. I am happy that you mention our language, Bahasa Indonesia. Our language is very simple indeed. It is also easy to listen to Bahasa Indonesia for our words are longer. Chinese is actually very simple actually without writing. I agree with you that Japanese is very difficult, probably the most difficult one I have learned. By the way, I know English, German, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.

@phxlou

Жыл бұрын

@@supersabrosinho there’s about 10,000-ish people maybe more that natively speak Esperanto

@NapoleonTrotski

Жыл бұрын

@@supersabrosinho i mean it's a nice languague to learn other languages. Having a world language is nice and it should't be english. Better be esperanto

Native: Brazilian Portuguese Easy: English, Spanish, French Hard: Telling people we don't live in the jungle and have carnival parties 24/7

@Caat355

3 жыл бұрын

Italian is easy too, all romance languages

@tretozo

3 жыл бұрын

Romani

@comunicacaohonesta8515

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but in "favelas" they really do this 24/7.

@guilhermefreitas9602

3 жыл бұрын

Ok, so here is that kind of comment section filled up with brazucas speaking in english... Nice

@TheBrunorrr

3 жыл бұрын

And telling people Portuguese and Spanish are different languages and we speak Portuguese

Native: Russian Easy: English Hard: To explain people that i'm not drinking vodka and have'nt a bear as a pet

@viscount7768

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@stoptryingtomakeithappen9099

3 жыл бұрын

What is your bear's name?

@viscount7768

3 жыл бұрын

@@stoptryingtomakeithappen9099 vodka

@maximpintea8217

3 жыл бұрын

@@stoptryingtomakeithappen9099 his name is Cyka

@The_Soviet_Onion

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest, you didn’t mention that you don’t have missiles and heavy weaponry in your house

as Tunisian I speak Arabic and the Tunisian accent, French, English, and German fluently. I understand also the Arabic accents of north Africa and middle East. I can understand somehow Maltese because they have a mix of Tunisian and Italian words which are similar to French. I tried lately to learn Japanese but didn't make much of a progress and already had huge difficulties to remember the letters ( I only tried to learn the Hiragana though)

Native: Icelandic Easy: North-germanic languages (Faroese is the easiest by far), English, Dutch Medium: Italian, spanish, german, french Intermediate: Japanese, Slavic languages, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew Hard: Telling people that pop culture grossly misinterprets viking lore

@seid3366

2 жыл бұрын

Nynorsk should be a breeze for you

@KrisiPanikou

Жыл бұрын

i am a greek who is strugling with icelandic :)

Native: Chinese Easy: Speaking Chinese Hard: Writing Chinese

@RPandorus

4 жыл бұрын

😐

@rashifarsya

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@yuksri8351

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@paulhk2727

4 жыл бұрын

@Ege Çoban It is true for basic symbols, yes But of course this doesn't apply to all of them because not everything can be drawn so easily Horse: 馬 Water: 水 or 氵which represents wazerdrops

@paulhk2727

4 жыл бұрын

@Ege Çoban kzread.info/dash/bejne/pn9pschmj6m0ZdY.html This video explains it quite well

Native: Dutch Easy: English Hotel: Trivago

@laradudek

4 жыл бұрын

haha onnozele :D

@zow6676

4 жыл бұрын

Haha dude that's so funny and original

@vanillacherub6847

4 жыл бұрын

You got me 😂😂

@lorenzorinati

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@tristandossantos1569

4 жыл бұрын

Hoi meden nederlander

Mother tongue: German Studied in school and loved it: Latin (has a very straightforward grammar) Easy: Slavic languages (grammar in some sense very similar to Latin, cases used in a very similar way, quite regular; only really new is the vocabulary for the first Slavic language; spelling and pronunciation not such a mess like in English or French)

Big thanks! Very helpful.

Native: C Easy: C++ Hard: finding a girlfriend

@njsynthesis

4 жыл бұрын

Nebojsa Can relate.

@user-cv2jg2gp3c

4 жыл бұрын

C++ easy?It's the most difficult program language i've learned.

@mangatalk9263

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

@invisi.

4 жыл бұрын

李贺 the point of the comment is that it’s easy if you know c which is true

@user-xr4wd3qt1q

4 жыл бұрын

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈xswl

Native: The language of youtube comments Easy: Stealing comments written by others Hard: Coming up with a funny one

@Langfocus

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@ludwigvanbeethoven5483

2 жыл бұрын

@@Langfocus You replied on a 6 year old video. That’s legendary and made me subscribe

@petrichor1832

2 жыл бұрын

Damn you are smart.

@Vibetobrayden

2 жыл бұрын

@@Langfocus still looking at commemts

@Vibetobrayden

2 жыл бұрын

@@ludwigvanbeethoven5483 yep

Appreciate your vids man

As a Dane in the 1970s I learned English and German in elementary school, but then in High School you had to choose a third foreign language. I had heard that French was tough in grammar so I chose Russian - that was a mistake! OK, I got decent in Russian, enough to once being taken for a Russian by some Poles in Krakow, that situation almost became dangerous until I pointed to a small Danish flag sown onto my coat and they joyfully said. "Ah Switzerland!" - and took us on a tour to some splendid Jazz clubs :-) The worst part is however that I have used my Russian very little since (too risky ;-) )and now have forgotten most. French or Spanish would have been much more useful - and I wouldn't have risked being knocked down in Krakow :-)

Native: Sign Language Easy: GangSigns Hard: Dodging bullets

@streamerandamemer1356

3 жыл бұрын

Shit respond if you're still alive

@jackrowe5571

3 жыл бұрын

@@streamerandamemer1356 still alive

@streamerandamemer1356

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackrowe5571 good

@jackrowe5571

3 жыл бұрын

@@streamerandamemer1356 so who you?

@BritishRepublicsn

3 жыл бұрын

What

Native: Deaf And Mute Easy: Sign Language Hard: Lip Reading Impossible: Explaining people that we can also enjoy music.

@david4rancibia34

4 жыл бұрын

how? do you feel the vibration like the man on Baby Driver?

@kokomel23

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! I think that’s awesome. I never considered that! But how? 🤔

@moderncavemann6786

4 жыл бұрын

How?please i need answer

@downey2294

4 жыл бұрын

i don't imagine feeling vibrations is very enjoyable. i would have allot of questions too.

@davidribosome4326

4 жыл бұрын

@@downey2294 lmao about 50% of the population can get some pleasure from vibrations.

I can see a pattern in the comments: Native: *insert country here* Easy: *some languages* Hard: Chinese, Japanese Impossible: *trying to discredit any random stereotype about their country*

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

2 ай бұрын

Easy : Indonesian

Having approached to several languages and having spanish and portuguese as my first and second language respectively I have found Malay (both malaysian and indonesian) as one of the easiest languages to learn, it is also very logic and quite precise to express ideas without using many words, The most difficult I have personally tried is arabic, still one I have found more challenging to learn : )

Native: Korean Easy: Talk with North Koreans Jail: Travel to North Korea

@ixivilay

3 жыл бұрын

lmaoooo

@besikothabolbina5447

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@jenetaro6366

3 жыл бұрын

Native Korean??!!!! 😳

@_McCormickProductions

3 жыл бұрын

@@jenetaro6366 I have a Korean friend is that shocking or not

@jenetaro6366

3 жыл бұрын

@@_McCormickProductions waw

Native: South Korean Easy: North Korean Hard: to visit Pyeongyang , 🇰🇵

@bestjerk

4 жыл бұрын

are south Korean and north Korean different languages?

@uphold2680

4 жыл бұрын

@@bestjerk almost same but sometimes pronunciation is a bit different and use a different word sometimes like American English and Australian English.

@bestjerk

4 жыл бұрын

@@uphold2680 I got it, thx

@user-vk8xn4ps2s

4 жыл бұрын

너 참웃긴닼ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@arpitdas4263

4 жыл бұрын

@@bestjerk The culture gap, and the Norths close relation with China

Native: Turkish Easy: Turkmen, Azerbaijani, English Normal: German, Russian, Dutch, French, Spanish Hard: Greek, Georgian, Portuguese, Indonesian Very Hard: Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Impossible: Deciding if im european or asian

@eoyenh

2 жыл бұрын

Bu yaxşıydı.

@user-Prometheus

2 жыл бұрын

You’re Asian.

@mirae9163

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised that you said Korean and Japanese are very hard, because most of the Turkish people(whom I saw in the KZread comment) said Korean and Japanese are easy for them.

very interesting, thank you!

Native: English Easy: Portuguese Hard: to find a comment that doesn't start with "Native:"

@Khan-bf9zk

3 жыл бұрын

Scroll to the top & u'll find.

@jheamstorchross7838

3 жыл бұрын

English - Me: Why do you think Portuguese is easy? You: The reason for this is simple, it's because I can understand it very well. Do you think it's difficult, why? Portuguese and it's four whys - Eu: Por que você acha que português é fácil? Eu quero saber o porquê. Você: É porquê eu posso entende-lo muito bem. Você acha que é difícil por quê? (Por que =Beginning of a question; Porquê = Noun preceded by an article; Porque = Because; Por quê = Used at the end of a question.)

@GabrielSilva-yg1qf

3 жыл бұрын

Wait a "minutinho" my friend, I will assume the scenario which you don't have relatives that speak the language, You're telling me you look to portuguese and thought: izi babe... I'm brazilian, I live with brazilians, I love and study portuguese (my mother is graduated, even so), and I never heard such a quote like portuguese is easy.

@gabrielnunes5880

3 жыл бұрын

Entende o quê eu falo?

@daniific

3 жыл бұрын

Meu Deus :0 Ele disse que português é fácil :0 você me entende? Uaaauuu

Native: Portuguese . Easy: Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian. Hard: Convincing people that we don't speak Spanish in Brazil.

@eddiegatoh4YT

4 жыл бұрын

E acham que falamos espanhol

@MatheusHenrique-li7cv

4 жыл бұрын

And english as well

@mochyla

4 жыл бұрын

Why do u said native Portuguese and then at the end u said convense people that brazilians dont speak spanish then that make u a brazilian or u shall say im Brazilian who or we speak Portuguese dont know just saying

@MatheusHenrique-li7cv

4 жыл бұрын

@@mochyla Come on, why don't you use a single comma? I couldn't understand what you said at all.

@neemiassilva5884

4 жыл бұрын

@@MatheusHenrique-li7cv hahaha yeah, I didn't understand it too, but clearly he wasn't able to see how the meme works.

Esperanto, by far, but another factor is which languages are offered for language credit. Many people learned it from Don Harlow’s ten email Esperanto course 25 years ago. There are many ways to learn Esperanto these days. Some people learn it in a couple of weeks or during the course of a single full immersion course. Indonesian was also easy. If you’ve learned those, and then Spanish, I find at least beginner Russian to have some welcome simplicity.

I have heard that, in certain instances, learning more than one language can be a progressive set of steps from one language to the next. For instance, if your native language is Portuguese, the easiest next step is Spanish, than Italian, and then French. Meaning, if those early steps are taken, the final one is substantially easier, than if one jumped straight to French.

Native: Russian Easy: Ukrainian Hard: telling people that Ukrainian and Russian isn't the same thing

@VijayThakurMD

3 жыл бұрын

MOTHER RUSSIA

@zenithchan1646

3 жыл бұрын

£|£|+|£]€]=€[‘woshxn&9:&:9.’manOK99)/80

@t.w0994

3 жыл бұрын

@@VijayThakurMD 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

@VijayThakurMD

3 жыл бұрын

@@t.w0994 Ukraine is ♥️

@luciathesylveon8082

3 жыл бұрын

It's not the same thing but you can understand each other

Native: Spanish Easy: Italian, Latin, Portuguese Hard: Telling people Spain is not Mexico

@mailman5043

3 жыл бұрын

But mexico WAS spain UwU sad

@aeiou6369

3 жыл бұрын

¡Arriba España!

@forrest1216

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah mate: "so you're Italian? Buenos dias" and it happens all the time! Saludos desde Italia!

@professionalsimpdestroyer4135

3 жыл бұрын

@@mailman5043 Was a part of Spain, but not anymore. And the culture could not be anymore different. Calling Mexico and Spain the same would be to call USA and England the same.

@professionalsimpdestroyer4135

3 жыл бұрын

@@forrest1216 ¡Saludos desde España!

Native : French Easy : English, Spanish, Italian Hard : Germanic languages (especially german) and slavic languages Very hard : Arabic, any language from far east and Asia presumably (except Hindi maybe since it's an indo-european language)

@mpforeverunlimited

2 жыл бұрын

Indo european but the indo iranian(hindi, pashto, tajik, farsi) branch is very different from the rest. Arabic would probably still be harder though

@lesbloches1142

2 жыл бұрын

@@mpforeverunlimited you might be right but I was comparing it with languages from ther families, so I still think this argument is relevant enough

@stephanedumas8329

Жыл бұрын

It's joke english : easy Hard Germanic language English is germanic language 😂

@lesbloches1142

Жыл бұрын

@@stephanedumas8329 indeed, I should have said "other" germanic languages. Meanwhile, 2/3 of English words are Latin :X

@stephanedumas8329

Жыл бұрын

@@lesbloches1142 Je suis français, j'ai étudié anglais et allemand, l'anglais est plus similaire à l'allemand et au néerlandais dans la vie de tout les jours l'anglais prononce plus de mots germanique que latin

The easiest foreign language I ever learned is Indonesian. The grammar is the simplest I ever encountered, and it helps that there are a lot of similar words with my native language Filipino.

@_Vezz

2 жыл бұрын

Ironically, despite mandarin being the hardest language, its grammar is so easy its like a 5 year old speaking.

@dasigkatama029

Жыл бұрын

@@_Vezz tone is only the hindrance

@akunformalitas

Жыл бұрын

You'll be surprise that many words in Sundanese (an ethnic in Java island) language are very similar to Tagalog

@ge7sur3nka34

Жыл бұрын

@@_Vezz mandarin is very similar to indonesian in terms of grammar. As long as you memorize the verbs(and tones in case of mandarin) you'll be able to communicate

Native: Greek Easy: English Impossible: Euros

@changolini

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@KrushKingdom

4 жыл бұрын

*Gyros

@atoningful

4 жыл бұрын

Possible: Athenians teaming up with Spartans to fight Persians.

@shivamchandrol8641

2 жыл бұрын

Try watching Euro cup . You will learn the language soon .🤷‍♀️

Native: Dutch Easy: German, English Hard: Telling people I don’t smoke weed

@machinerin151

3 жыл бұрын

Just tell them about your bicycle instead

@zoendly9214

3 жыл бұрын

Je bent niet grappig

@trujih4d

3 жыл бұрын

onzin iedereen rookt jonko

@christinevanzyl3106

3 жыл бұрын

Jy kan Afrikaans by die maklike lys bysit, dit was ontwikkel deur die Nederlandse kolonie in Suid Afrika. Net ‘n ewekansige feit. English translation: You can add Afrikaans to the easy list, as it was developed by Dutch colonies in South Africa. Just a random fact.

@trujih4d

3 жыл бұрын

@@christinevanzyl3106 we kunnen u begrijpen, we hebben geen vertaling nodig :P

Excellent presentation.

Native: Swiss-German/German and Vietnamese (mother tongue) Easy: English, Dutch Normal: French, Spanish, or Germanic languages in general, at least when it comes down to comprehension when reading WITHOUT having studied them Hard: Japanese, Tamil, Hindi I cannot wrap my head around how Japanese works but I also haven't invested enough time to sit down and understand its structure in its entirety.

Native: Slovak / Czech Easy: English, Slavic languages Hard: French, German Very Hard: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic Impossible: explain to foreigners that Czechoslovakia hasn't been a country for 30 years edit: WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE 1900 LIKES, what why

@YorkeBigZ

2 жыл бұрын

man you really make me laugh

@zenithchan1646

2 жыл бұрын

What is Czechoslovakia

@HeroManNick132

2 жыл бұрын

@@zenithchan1646 Union that disolved like the USSR or Yugoslavia.

@zenithchan1646

2 жыл бұрын

@@HeroManNick132 Czech my nuts

@EraserMyHead

2 жыл бұрын

@@zenithchan1646 a country that got invaded by mr mustasche man

Native: Indonesian Easy: English and Spanish Hard: Telling people that Indonesia has more than 17000 islands, not only Bali.

@naisa9705

3 жыл бұрын

Ahahha exactly

@doug911

3 жыл бұрын

Explain how our indonesian languange grades is still below C's

@marishak4105

3 жыл бұрын

bhahahahha

@nizargutomo7969

3 жыл бұрын

Indonesian is easy for me

@manusiaganteng2753

3 жыл бұрын

Just chillin here telling you guys Indonesia has committed 4 genocides since 1965 and is currently brutally colonising West Papua

What's amazing was Japanese was the easiest for me as an English speaker because it was so alien that being forced to learn all new language concepts made it completely novel to me.

Very interesting. Thx

Native: Hindi Hard : Chinese, Japanese Easy : Java script

@chipchilinka5645

4 жыл бұрын

really? html5, css easiest but jquery is hard for me hmm

@InspireMalayalam

4 жыл бұрын

@KvAT haha you don't know the meaning

@InspireMalayalam

4 жыл бұрын

@KvAT really

@dysanity

4 жыл бұрын

woah i cant understand Java and Thailand at the same time :D

@gdlunar3773

4 жыл бұрын

"Java Script" That joke xD

Native: Portuguese Easy: Spanish, Italian, etc... Hard: Finding a comment that doesn't think English is easy.

@SenorGuina

3 жыл бұрын

@@red_echo_panda it's not, the only hard factor in english is the nonsensical grammar rules

@PsychoDude

3 жыл бұрын

Italian isnt. Switch for spanish lol

@acjazz01

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot French, it's a little bit like Portuguese.

@ferbmixes8352

3 жыл бұрын

@@acjazz01 As a portuguese speaker (brazilian) myself, I can't understand a quarter of what is spoken in french. It's pretty different. I think it's because of their accent.

@Idk-dm9zg

3 жыл бұрын

@Gororoba eles não sabem?

Always like these talks. Interesting

I'm a 60-year old American who is trying to learn a language for the first time. I'm fascinated with the Russian language. I watched a video that said if you can pronounce all 33 letters in the Russian alphabet you can read Russian. I thought to myself, "really"... that seems too easy. I always thought I didn't have the brain to learn a foreign language, but slowly I'm getting it. For example, ложка, when I spell that I can easily pronounce it and it means spoon. Maybe there's hope for me.

@dunyazad

2 жыл бұрын

Of course there's hope ! Better late than never 😉 💪 good luck

@tammyicious

2 жыл бұрын

@@dunyazad , thanks.

@HeroManNick132

2 жыл бұрын

Нека ти тествам тогава знанията си колко добре можеш да разбираш останалите славянски езици тогава? :) Само, един съвет, е да не наричаш всички славянски езици, че са руски, защото имаме повече разлики, отколкото изглежда. Не говоря руски почти, но знам някои неща, въпреки че за мен само македонския език ми е най-лесен. Като например: Как деля? Как тебя зовут? Ете ќе зборувам малку македонски да видиш разликата меѓу бугарскиот и македонскиот jазик. Сигурно ќе се изненадаш дека можам да говорам на повеќе од еден jазик, нели? Ти сигурно за тебе сите словенски jазици, се руски, нели? :D Сите, коишто ме видат дека зборувам некоj словенски jазик викаат дека сум русин или сум зборувал руски... Ама е разбирливо што е така и ако сакаш, ете ти една вежба за твоjата практика со кирилицата. Поздрави од Бугариjа! 👍

@grantwileyesq.5962

Жыл бұрын

Same here! I love it! Russian can be intimidating because it seems like every word is 15 characters long! I've picked up some from SADB. It sounds so cool!

Native: Indonesian Easy: Malay, English Hard: Finding a comment that is not following this template

@sachio8610

4 жыл бұрын

That can be applied to literally anyone

@tristanxjn1308

4 жыл бұрын

Gw gk ngerti sih knp pada comment gini :v

@wsrahman

4 жыл бұрын

It's like 1 out of 10 probability to find other comment that unsimilar to this wkwk

@yuxinlittlemagic

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@1503tieto

4 жыл бұрын

He said that indonesian don't shared vocabularies with dutch. Lol indonesian has many rooted vocabularies from Dutch

Native: Polish Easy: slavic languages Hard: convincing people that I don't squat, drink vodka and wear adidas tracksuit

@JacobIX99

2 жыл бұрын

We don't?! You traitor...

@Jonas-qg6jw

2 жыл бұрын

you obviously lie.

@thomasharter8161

2 жыл бұрын

And convince people that you don't take a shower a month, but a shower a week.

@Fufu7170

2 жыл бұрын

Oh how come?

@lucaschiantodipepe2015

2 жыл бұрын

Adidas is a German brand, not polish.

I have studied Spanish, German and Chinese. Chinese was easiest as far as grammar. I didn't have any issue learning the tones. German is good because it has rules that don't change, but those adjective endings kick my butt. My German relatives are like 😱😱😱😱. Spanish was fairly easy, but they also have case endings. I think the benefit for learning Spanish in America is that you cam hear it pretty much everywhere and find someone to practice your language skills on. That isn't true of the other languages.

There is no easy/hard language. It all boils down to the person's determination to learn and what his/her native language sounds like. For example, Asians like me find it hard to speak French/Arabic/Dutch/Flemish etc which have that "throat sound" (for the lack of better term). But Chinese and Russian (which are considered to be among the hardest languages)are quite easy for me.

Native: Malay Easy: English, Arabic, Indonesian Hard: Telling people that we actually exist and is a separate country from Indonesia

@uwahhhama

3 жыл бұрын

Aaa.. now i can see buddy here 😌

@muazazmin7922

3 жыл бұрын

Bahasa melayu: indonesia, malaysia, brunei, singapore(not really), siam

@krisyannuruha5147

3 жыл бұрын

For indonesian hard is to tell people where is indonesia without speaking about bali.

@shreddedalto8982

3 жыл бұрын

Hard: convincing fellow maritime SE asians that IT IS OKAY to share culture, food, and language bcs we came from the same ancestor and were a part of one huge kingdom

@pokewhy3146

3 жыл бұрын

arab easy??????

Native: Italian. Easy: French, Spanish. Hard: Telling people that we don't just say "Pizza Pasta" to communicate with people.

@thesementeameatsweets9199

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about words like: Tortellini, Ravioli & Spaghetti which should be used to speak with perfect grammar :D

@babs1277

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesementeameatsweets9199 oh yeah obviously! How could I forget those!?

@ely.m.

3 жыл бұрын

Vero!

@babs1277

3 жыл бұрын

@@ely.m. Uh buonasera :)

@iminbreadbutfrench8625

3 жыл бұрын

@@babs1277 how about the hand language lol

My native language is German. I had little issues understanding Japanese and learning Hiragana, I however stopped because of time issues after a while. By now I am learning Finnish, which is honestly super easy to me. Danish and Dutch are a level of easy it's nearly unfair for a german speaker because they are so simliar; I took around 6 weeks to be fully conversational in Danish, I can get around, read and just understand pretty much everything. I never learned Dutch in my life but I still understand about everything, especially spoken Dutch in social situations.

I am so thankful I was born into English! I can't imagine trying to learn it as a non-native speaker, and I deeply admire ANYONE who so much as attempts it!

@JdeC1994

Жыл бұрын

"I can't imagine trying to learn it as a non-native speaker..." Why not? Because you incorrectly believe that English is uniquely difficult? "...and I deeply admire ANYONE who so much as attempts it!" Why? What have you attempted to learn?

Native: Portuguese Easy: English, Spanish, Russian Hard: Telling people that we don't speak spanish

@matheusmonteiro7

3 жыл бұрын

Onde que se tiro que russo é fácil kkkk

@Rafael-vs8qv

3 жыл бұрын

@@matheusmonteiro7 acho q ele levou em consideração que o português tem muitos sons parecidos com o russo, mas ainda acho que deve ser difícil pra caralho aprender russo. Devia ser italiano no lugar

@matheusmonteiro7

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rafael-vs8qv aa tendi, de fato as vezes quando eu ouço russo ou polonês de longe vem uma sensação de que é português que estão falando

@lebens3585

3 жыл бұрын

@@matheusmonteiro7 It would've been funny if you responded in Spanish.

@ronalbars

3 жыл бұрын

@@matheusmonteiro7 Pra mim é fácil pq eu tenho familiares russos kkkkkkk é como se fosse a minha 2ª língua sz