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It’s interesting that the countries which score lowest are where the Romance languages are spoken. I wonder what the reasons for that are. FYI I’m an English sp
by GreeniFi 7y ago
It’s interesting that the countries which score lowest are where the Romance languages are spoken. I wonder what the reasons for that are. FYI I’m an English speaker who speaks 2 other Germanic languages and Spanish. The Spanish I find by far the hardest and that could also be reversed. Just an hypothesis.
- frereubu 7y agoI think it's partially what another commenter said - the EU market means that learning other EU languages is as much of a priority. Also, the romance languages can overlap quite a bit - my Spanish wife can have a reasonably detailed conversation with an Italian where they only speak their native languages.
- alexgmcm 7y agoWeird, I had the opposite experience - I moved to Spain after Uni but during Uni I worked in Germany for half a year. I found Spanish much easier to learn than German because the grammar is simpler and the words are often similar to Latin words which are in turn similar to English words. I never had to use Flash Cards when learning Spanish, they were vital for German. For example, Mano is similar to Manual which is related to the Hand, obviously in German it is simpler as the word is the same. However, negocio is similar to negotiate which reminds me of business... Betrieb on the other hand - probably going to need the flash cards.
- bleuedejapan 7y agoPortugal is on the top score list.