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Originally Posted by asjogren
And here I am in Mexico, part time, struggling to get barely functional in Spanish. Spanish has got to be the easiest language for an English speaker.
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One word: accents.
As a native-speaker I can tell you that all the benefits of the syllabic nature of the language vanish in the face of the hell of accentuation.
Only thing worse is french: it has *three* kinds of accents.
Nobody should have to deal with three accents!
