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>did you know that out of 5 most popular languages in the world, 3 of them are relatively easy to acquire? They are: English, Spanish and Russian, and my plan i
by krelian 15y ago
>did you know that out of 5 most popular languages in the world, 3 of them are relatively easy to acquire? They are: English, Spanish and Russian, and my plan is to be fluent in English and Spanish and be able to get by with Russian by the end of 2013! Who’s with me?!)
I'll grant that Spanish is relatively easy but Russian is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn. It's hard for me to judge the difficulty of English but I wouldn't say it is an easy language.
- apendleton 15y agoRussian is probably somewhere in between. How hard a language is to acquire depends a lot on what language or languages you already speak, but for native English speakers, Russian is considered difficult, but probably not "one of the most difficult." The Defense Language Institute, which provides instructions for native-English-speaking US military translators, classifies Russian as a category 3 language (of four categories), which makes it harder than French or Spanish (category 1), or German (category 2), and on the same level as Farsi or Hindi, but easier than the a reasonably-sized swath of category 4 languages that includes Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic.