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It’s interesting the site says Vietnamese takes 44 weeks versus 88 weeks for Korean. I assume it’s because Vietnamese has a western alphabet. But I thought Viet
by rawgabbit 4y ago
It’s interesting the site says Vietnamese takes 44 weeks versus 88 weeks for Korean. I assume it’s because Vietnamese has a western alphabet. But I thought Vietnamese pronunciation was more difficult due to tones.
- AlbertCory 4y agoNo idea. But at least this is empirical data from a lot of samples. What if we had the results of learning difficulty for native speakers of all the major languages, and some languages were hard for everyone? In principle, this is an experiment that's doable, if the foreign ministries of the other countries also publish this data.