> E.g., almost any linguist will tell you that you can't objectively measure a language's difficulty, because it always depends on what's the native language of

> E.g., almost any linguist will tell you that you can't objectively measure a language's difficulty, because it always depends on what's the native language of the person asking the question. Eh, I’m not sure. There are probably ways to infer whether or not e.g. Mandarin Chinese is harder for Chinese children to learn than English is for American children to learn. In fact I’ve seen a fairly convincing argument that this is the case!