<p>I'll agree with many, I'm taking French and I think I grasp the structure pretty well.</p>
<p>I love language, I should major in linguistics. :)</p>
<p>I think German is really easy, but I've been taking it for 4 years so I guess that would kind of help.</p>
<p>snl are you comfortable speakign it after 4 years? How long do you think it will take to become fluent</p>
<p>Spanish = easy</p>
<p>English is hard for foreigners because of all of the exceptions. you really have to live in america for quite some time to learn english well. my mom still asks me what random phrases mean, because literally, they don't make sense. my dad told me the way he learned english was by --> watching TV.</p>
<p>I agree with Sarorah. There are so many exceptions, sometimes it's a bother to even remember the primary rule in the first place.</p>
<p>And idioms suck.</p>
<p>lol true true. </p>
<p>"hey pal why don't you chew the cud for a while?"</p>
<p>..."what?"</p>
<p>Hebrew is really hard unless you live in Israel for a few years. I've been speaking Hebrew since I was four (turning 18), still nowhere near fluent. Reading is easy, vocab is ok. Knowing what you read, and speaking are difficult though.</p>
<p>Try pronouncing a few of the common phrases on this site:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/</a></p>
<p>I was so angry when this little like 4 year old kid was speaking English and Russian last night. If he can do it, why can't I?!?!?!?</p>
<p>because you're you hoke..duh</p>
<p>hokegoalie, I know what you mean. My dad was fluent in Greek, French, and English by the time he was seven. That's because his parents spoke all these languages, and he was completely immersed by it.</p>
<p>It's sad that some people don't have opportunities like this. I'm so sick of being unilingual. If I lived in Canada, (with my dad) I couldn't learned French, Greek, and Spanish. My dad speaks all those languages.</p>
<p>Oh well... hopefully I'll learn a language someday.</p>
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<p>Why not start today?</p>
<p>Es ist mir unglaublich, dass manche Leute Deutsch als eine sehr leichte Sprache zu lernen glauben. Viele sagen es, dass jemand der Englisch spricht schon sehr viel davon wei</p>
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<p>I sort of am I guess. I'm reading some Spanish phrasebooks and stuff. I already speak a little French.</p>
<p>English is incredibly easy. You guys dont even change words depending on the situation, things dont have genders, sentence structure is fairly straightforward.
Spanish is very easy too. Right aling with portugese.</p>
<p>if english is your native language, german is easy. there are so many words that are similar to english ones. also german builds words so it is pretty easy to keep learning new vocabulary. </p>
<p>that mark twain thing is awful in its own right. mark twain loved to whine. this is the guy who wrote hate letters to newspaper editors so much that his wife began pulling them out of the mailbox so they wouldnt be sent out. i dont know how he even got confused over wegen because it is really not that hard to grasp.</p>
<p>Spanish is the easiest to start off with but it's harder in the higher levels.</p>
<p>French is harder to start with but ridiculously easy in higher levels.</p>
<p>From all reports, learning a language with different characters isn't bad once you get over that hump. I've heard Russian isn't that bad.</p>
<p>"I've heard Russian isn't that bad."</p>
<p>HAhahahahahaahhahaahh....</p>
<p>Columbia, lol I actually understood what you said. I guess 3 years of German helps.</p>
<p>I have trouble with adejective endings though.</p>
<p>My dad said something in German yesterday and he said it meant he's bored or tired or something. lol.</p>
<p>It sounds like, "I've been murdered." It was actually like "eek ven marder." lol</p>