Thread: "Английский язык -- самый трудный в мире".

it can't be that hard, it's spoken in every corner of the world.

Originally Posted by sperk

it can't be that hard, it's spoken in every corner of the world.

Are you talking about English?

Well it's not surprising: People HAVE to speak it to have a professional career in many parts of the world. They will do whatever it takes to learn! English prepositions, colloquialisms are hard to master. Sometimes I forget how hard I struggled with English in my teens, and how awkward and embarassing it felt to first start speaking it with native speakers. I kept thinking I sounded like a parody of my own nationality, or like a small child, making countless grammatical mistakes.
I can only imagine that it is much harder for Russian speakers than it was for me, since Russian is more distant from English in every way.

As for Russian; very, very hard! I don't know if the difficulty is what makes it interesting, cool and challenging... Or whether I would prefer if a simpler language (like Spanish, yeah!) was spoken in Russia so it would be easier to learn. With the amount of time I've put into Russian now, I could have learnt a non-slavic European language almost to fluency.

I have met Polish and Bulgarian people who have said that they can speak Russian and that it was easier to learn than English, and they speak it better - probably because the grammar and words are more similar (?)

Originally Posted by sperk

it can't be that hard, it's spoken in every corner of the world.

Подобные было сказано о танцах - все же, мои ноги всегда, кажется, не согласны. =P

Originally Posted by Anixx

At the same time there is hardly 1% who can read English as I can so the number of those who can understand a move is even less.

According to the population census there are 7 574 303 (5,3%) of people who know English. Of course anyone could say (s)he know English, so this number should be considered as an upper bar.

Originally Posted by kidkboom

Подобное было сказано о танцах, но все же, мои ноги не всегда, кажется, не согласны. =P