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Originally Posted by astra
It also depends on what is your first language. If you are from Western Europe, it is so much easier for you to learn other European languages than for people from Eastern Europe, let alone Asia. Somewhere out there I have seen a scale that determines your aptitude to learn English. IIRC there are were 5 levels of difficulty. The biggest challenge, 5th level, was for Japanese and Chinese.
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My language is a Latin-alphabet-based one although Vietnam is located in Asia, thanks to a historic factor:
Vietnamese looks like this:
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người ta cứ nói đừng quá yêu
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so I have a slight advantage to learn Latin-alphabet-based languages, at least better than Chinese and Japanese, right?
well, my priority is still English because there is no 'gender' with nouns
I can't figure out any method to tell at once if it is 'la voiture' or 'le voiture' instead of learning those by heart
No, really, I love the way English words are pronounced and how it is simple by grammar yet beautifully written in poems. That's why I try to study English to the limit where I hopefully be able to read works in their native form with understanding.
@ desertblues: I'm considering French and Spanish. Which one is an easier target?? I'll be studying English along the way so a tough one would be tougher than it already is.