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> All languages are easy to learn if you have to learn them. Look up Navajo Code Talkers. Navajo was picked because it is so difficult to learn. I believe, at
by sethammons 5y ago
> All languages are easy to learn if you have to learn them.
Look up Navajo Code Talkers. Navajo was picked because it is so difficult to learn. I believe, at the time, only two people ever had managed to speak it who were not raised speaking it, or so an old history teacher said.
- slibhb 5y ago...or maybe because zero people outside the US (and not too many inside the US) speak Navajo. If you're thrown in with a bunch of people who only speak Navajo, you're going to figure it out.
- JackFr 5y agoI believe Navajo was picked because it was obscure and in particular US intelligence knew the whereabouts every academic who had studied or published it. Other Native American languages which might have been studied by European professors and students of linguistics had to be rejected.
- Kranar 5y agoSure there is a sense in which Navajo is really hard to learn, but that's the same sense in which it's very hard to learn Babylonian/Akkadian. It's hard because no one speaks it, there is no culture to immerse yourself in, no theater or movies you can watch, no music you can listen to, no novels you can read, no friends to speak with, etc etc... The only way to learn Akkadian, or Navajo, is in a very artificial and academic manner, and learning things in that fashion tends to be very inefficient.