> In the end, the “hard” languages to learn are not those that do what your own language does in a new way. They are the ones that make you constantly pay atten

> In the end, the “hard” languages to learn are not those that do what your own language does in a new way. They are the ones that make you constantly pay attention to distinctions in the world that yours blithely passes over. TL;DR: Anglo-saxon approach to foreign cultures.