Message #40215

[CrazyHobo]

as far as I remember, the most difficult languages in the world go by the following order:

1) Chinese
2) Japanese
3) Arabic
4) Russian

English in it's basic form is very easy. Once you have a language basis, you can communicate easily with people. But when you need to increase your level to sound like a sophisticated English gentelman, then it turns into a nightmare because of all the small important things, like always saying "Your sincerely" when you don't know the name of the person your writing the letter to.

The order of words is also quite strange. While there is a scientifically placed order on what words go in which order, I have read many times in books sentences, that have different word orders to increase the emotional effect of the text. This leads to a big confusion in English language.

But overall, if I would have to decide which language sounds more beautiful, English or Russian, I'd go with English, because Russian is a rather brutal language in terms of sounding....though Spanish and Italian beat them both.

English is also a hard to learn language, because those silent letters to make things a total pain in the ass. Now I know why USA and UK are the only countires, that have a Spelling B contest: there is no solid rule for understanding which letters goes, unlike in Russian, which leads to people having to read a lot of dictionaries and novels to become a sophisticated and intelligent person...though modern technology helps a lot with imporiving grammar...even though not that many people use Word to correct their mistakes >_>

Thank you very much for hijacking my story's thread. I'll move your posts to the discussion thread later