Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Which languages do you believe are the easiest or hardest other than just your own?

I am trilingual somewhat again. I now only prefer to use English, Japanese, and German and I studied German before I started studying Japanese and I've been speaking English forever as my primary language. German is one of the easiest. It's slightly harder than English but easier than Japanese because a lot of German words sound like English like Essen, gleich, Abend, Hund, schlagen, schlafen, etc. don't feel like telling you all the German words if you haven't taken it already because that'll spoil the fun of what words you'll run across but a lot of words from English are unchanged from German like Gras and sing but you get the point. Japanese sounds a bit different and a lot of words can roll off the tongue, Katakana words like アストロノミ (asutoronami) and アストロナマア (asutoronamaa) which are also my favorite subjects in school even which mean astronomy and astronomer respectively and スペイン語 as well (supeingo) which means Spanish language in Japanese and Hiragana words like のど (nodo) meaning thirsty, I guess. I saw its Kanji and this is exactly what it looks like: 喉 so I have a feeling nodo means thirsty. Also not only that in Japanese unlike English, German, and Spanish for example you can give one word responses because you don't have to use pronouns. To say "it spoke" for example all it takes is 1 word and the word is only "しゃべた" not sure how it's spelled because it's not an every day word and is pronounced shabeta. In German you have to say "Es gespricht" to say "It spoke" and just in English, it's "It spoke." But in Spanish you have to include more than just 1 word in there which is what I hate about that hard language. I couldn't even get an A in Spanish grammar because it was so difficult that I couldn't master it and I had no history with the language of Spanish and when I was in Charter School, I didn't know that foreign language was required so I refused to take it as an elective and then they told me and I struggled with Spanish. For Japanese, I could've sworn that I was dreaming one night of one day when we were coming to my grandmother's and grandfather's house and everyone was speaking Japanese but I don't remember what was said because I didn't understand Japanese back then. Is that because I thought we just speak random Japanese or because of random Japanese speakers or was that a coincidence because they are located near San Francisco? Hmm. That's a good question and a good discussion with family about it can bring up good memories of whether this was possible that it happened or not. If not, I'd just forget about it and move on because I can speak some Japanese now. :) If I gain some Korean, I could be quatrallingual but Japanese is way easier than Korean or French because Korean has some silent letters depending on the word and French has silent letters everywhere. My French wouldn't be that good knowing that I've been studying German which never has silent letters and Japanese which only happens around the です (desu) and ます (masu) part somehow. Discuss!

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