<p>langweilig means boring ,but other words mean boring too.</p>
<p>francais ho ho ho</p>
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<p>It sounds like, "I've been murdered." It was actually like "eek ven marder." lol
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<p>"Ich bin müde." - I am tired.</p>
<p>Hoke - it's a linguistic fact that it is easier to learn languages when you're younger. The best time to learn many languages is, unfortunately, from birth to 2 years. It gets harder from 2-16, and after 16 years of age, it's very difficult to learn a new language. Don't feel bad!</p>
<p>My first language was actually Chinese. I couldn't speak any English when I went to daycare, but since I was so young at the time I picked it up very quickly.</p>
<p>For an English speaker, the Romance languages are the easiest to pick up. The difficulty increases as you expand eastward and go down south. The most difficult languages for native English speakers are Arabic and the big three East Asian languages - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.</p>
<p>English as a second language in high school could be rather difficult though. Like many have said, it is not very strongly defined in the sense that there are MANY exceptions to rules.</p>
<p>I would wager that Esperanto is one of the easiest languages to learn for speakers of European (languages). The vocabulary is derived almost exclusively from that region, and the grammar is highly regular.</p>
<p>German and English are the easiest. I'm native Russian speaker.</p>
<p>English is the easiest to learn of all the languages.Spanish and French are harder with all the accents and dialects. The grammer in the English language is super easy when compared to other languages.Like Spanish each word is either a " girl or boy" and you have to learn to put la ,lo ,los, etc. In English verbs do not have that problem.</p>
<p>English is incredibly easy to learn. I've seen that a lot of people have listed spanish as one of the easiest to learn, and I fear you guys might be underestimating it. Yes, speaking like a troglodyte, conjugating like a 4 year old, and using illogical genders and adjectives is terribly easy, speaking it correctly is another thing. My native language is spanish, I've been speaking it for 17 yrs. Through out life I've recieved college level courses in spanish and I can truly say that it is not an easy language to speak perfectly. Many native speakers are guilty of thousands of horrendous grammar mistakes on a daily basis. Pronunciation is also another hard step to climb towards perfection. Many people fail to pronounce the r's, ll's, ch, sh, the list goes on.</p>
<p>I hated learning English, but didn't mind learning Spanish. Maybe I am ignorant of the way perfect Spanish is supposed to be, but to me, you've mastered a language if you speak it like a native. And if the natives don't speak with correct grammar all the time, I don't find the need to seem superior.</p>
<p>Unfortunately many natives don't learn perfect Spanish because of the lack of proper education in many spanish speaking nations. I feel that if one has the chance to learn it perfectly then one should take advantage of that chance, a chance that our governments should provide for our people but alas, education has never been the priority of latinamerican governments. Anyways. I forgot to mention, I feel that English is easy as long as one learns it a young age ( like before 20 perhaps), because I've seen many older people struggling to learn English. My mom, for example, started English when she was 30 and she has had trouble learning a lot of the rules and exceptions etc which in her mind make no sense.</p>
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<p>You mean like, 12? </p>
<p>I've always heard that it's so much easier to learn a language before this age. </p>
<p>Why don't they teach languages starting in kindergarten? That would make so much more sense.</p>
<p>^I guess 12 I was just making up an age to make my point. Yeah hahah we should get english, spanish, french, german, italian, chinese and japanese lessons in kindergarten hahaha it would be amazing.</p>
<p>What about those immersion schools?</p>
<p>I hear Javanese (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called- what they speak in Java) is a remarkably logical and easy language to learn- also with relatively few grammar rule "exceptions."</p>
<p>However, I've heard that English is hard because colloquial speech is so idiom-based. About 80% of the speech we use in casual conversation is idioms, which don't translate, so it must be hard to achieve fluency (though maybe not proficiency).</p>
<p>I think the majority of people in the United States speak English improperly, so why is Spanish any different?</p>
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<p>swanson- nobody said spanish was any different. I believe people should strive to speak their language properly, be it english, spanish or whatever language you wish. I simply mentioned that a language might seem easy to speak if spoken improperly, regardless of the language.</p>
<p>Where's Java?</p>
<p>^search it on a map. use google</p>
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<p>they just started doing that down here. My youngest sister, who's in kindergarten, takes spanish classes every morning at her school.</p>