tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21879466.post8763009251678836805..comments2024-02-18T03:21:27.028-05:00Comments on Dumneazu: Dreaming of Slovakiadumneazuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03595663581295671582noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21879466.post-25748564824832939382007-12-11T17:58:00.000-05:002007-12-11T17:58:00.000-05:00Hello Dumneazu,My name is Ramos, I found your blog...Hello Dumneazu,<BR/><BR/>My name is Ramos, I found your blog quite interesting, with nice pictures, but I don't agree with you when you talk about how difficult a language is. <BR/><BR/>- if you want to know which languages are the most difficult in the world, you have to compare them. That implies that you know all of them and that you worked out a scale of difficulty to class them...<BR/>- We all, as human beings, belong to the same brand, with equal cerebral potential. We use the language to describe the world around us... in other words, we have to describe the same things in the outside world and in our inside world.<BR/>- why would some intelligent people ease their lives speaking a simple language, not very demanding from a cognitive point of view...and why stupid people would complicate their lives speaking a complicated and demanding tongue?<BR/>- finally all the kids in the world learn to speak a the same speed.<BR/><BR/>This feeling of difficulty only depends on what language you started to learn a second language, on your personal background, on your motivation. It doesn't depend on objective features of the language, but on subjective impressions from the learner of a certain language. <BR/>Is the declension system of hungarian more difficult to master than the prepositions in french, english or swedish? I don't see any objective reason to say so. Is english an easy language to master, as most people say? A language with 500 000 words? I don't see any objective reason to say that.<BR/>I lived in Hungary for 8 years, and I speak its language fluently, I am now living in Slovakia, and I learned its language...<BR/>My conclusion would be that a difficult language is an unknown one...and an easy language is a known one.<BR/>Ramoscanigoukrivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18374839918799522402noreply@blogger.com