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Re:The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages by alex_c on Monday December 21, 2009 @10:05PM (#1009303)
My native speaker bias for which language? :) I'm not a native English speaker, although I did learn it young, which I'm sure helped.

Still, my native language is Romanian, and I found English verbs easier to learn than French conjugation, even though French is very similar to Romanian in the first place.

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Re:The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages by compay on Monday December 21, 2009 @10:19PM (#1009328)
Ha, I would have thought you were a native speaker, your English is excellent. :-) I think you make the same generalizations about Latin that native English speakers often do, though, in assuming rich nominal case = complexity. The issue is much more complex than that.
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