Why SHOULD I learn your native language?
You'd better be giving me some good reasons to spend THAT much time and money.
Why SHOULD I learn your native language?
Ethan Myers
Elijah Peterson
who the fuck made this retarded shit
how is a completely unrelated language like malay, which works in some completely unique and alien ways, easier than a bunch of very similar indo-european languages.
Levi Adams
I think it was based off of the US government's language learning program which they use for teaching people in the military certain languages. They saw how long it took people to learn each language. I'd assume Malay is easier because of its simple grammar. It supposedly has one of the easiest grammars in the world for a natural language
Evan Hill
It's from US foreign office or whatever it's called where they train diplomats to work abroad, so they probably have a reasonable idea
Connor Price
*crickets*
Grim.
Jacob Diaz
> money
lol
Easton Martin
It's literally based on empiricism.
Henry Thomas
learn Marathi. it is the closest language to Sanskrit. Learn it and you'll have the access to all the intricacies and nuances of the rest of the Indo-European languages. word order and pronunciations will never be a problem for you. Plus you'll have the access to esoteric literature the likes of which you have never seen before
Xavier Davis
what level did they learn the language to, i wonder. because as i said, malay has things in it that are not in indo-european languages and are very alien.
- syntax and marking is very diffferent
- its pronouns or lack thereof
- measure words like chinese and japanese
- extensive system of verb conjugations that have nothing to compare to in indo-european languages because it's different information
it's conceptually much harder to get into whereas any indo-european language will not introduce anything alien and is just a matter of comfortable, accessible study.
Elijah Edwards
Is German really harder for English speakers to learn than French?
I chose German as my langauge at school instead of French because I found German easier. Because of course a lot of the basic words are very similar (I / ich, bed / Bett, house / Haus, etc.).
But I guess when you get to more advanced vocabulary (which I never really covered), perhaps words in German diverge quite a bit from English? Since English gets quite a lot of its more advanced vocabulary from French, from the Normans (e.g. 'refuse' in English is 'refuser' in French, but it's 'verweigern' in German, stuff like that).