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Apart from relative usefulness of different languages (Latin script based Kazakh would probably be considered less generally useful than Chinese, say). Initial
by Fins 9y ago
Apart from relative usefulness of different languages (Latin script based Kazakh would probably be considered less generally useful than Chinese, say).
Initial attempt maybe. But I think very soon most people will find out that if you are coming from an Indo-European background, Kazakh or Finnish, regardless of script used, is far more foreign than Russian or German.
- kbenson 9y agoSure, but the catch-22 is that most people won't have a good idea how to assess the difficulty of learning a language until they've tried, and it seems different people have different difficulties with the process. From the outside at the beginning, the different alphabet seems like quite a big deal. Thats how it feels to me at least when I think about learning another language. It's a data point of one, but I don't think I'm that unique in this.
- Fins 9y agoI'm not sure if most people start learning languages just because they seem "easy" either. There has to be some reason. And once you do start, something like differences between analytic and synthetic languages probably would be more of a tripping point.