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  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]M
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    11 months ago

    neat, maybe ill learn some hungarian as a fun hobby. wow, "the hardest language to learn for an English speaker", can't be that bad.

    • huf [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      eh, i doubt that's true. "one of the hardest european languages to learn for an english native" feels closer to the truth.

        • huf [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          this is the usual anglocentric map: https://i.imgur.com/4ABYc7X.png

          so basically indoeuropean languages supposedly get harder the further away you go from england, and then languages belonging to a different language family are super hard.

          and i think languages spoken by non-whites are even harder, but that's not on this map, except for that bit of arabic in north africa. i'd guess they rate chinese as harder than arabic.

          hungarian uses the latin alphabet, has a fairly phonetic spelling, has had extensive contact with indoeuropean languages and borrowed a shitton of words from them (scientific vocabulary is largely latin/greek for example). so it's not that bad in comparison.