2007-04-07 20:17:52 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
definitely japanese.
it's difficult for me to accustom my mindset into recognizing and memorizing new alphabet characters, especially if they're not the traditional A-B-Cs.
it's easy to learn things but it's even harder to unlearn them. if we were raised to recognize the traditional english characters, then it would be difficult to overlap our cognitive system with an entire new set of characters.
it's not impossible though, and i know it takes a lot of practice, both in theory and application, but our minds just have to continuously convert the foreign language into our knowledgeable language so that we can accustom ourselves in recognizing the new characters.
though what i had going against me was the time i had to spend doing all of the practice.
having to be fluent in another language is definitely a mind's feat well achieved.
2007-04-07 20:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by spiralsun_uplb 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am giving up and then coming back to German every single year. An extremely complicated language in every respect - syntax, morphology, pronunciation, style of writing, idioms and slang, you name it, it's complicated to the highest level possible. Just read the Mark Twain's "That Awful German Language" essey and you'll have a good laugh. At the same time, the reason I keep coming back to it is because it is such a beautiful, rich, powerful language.
2007-04-08 04:08:38 · answer #2 · answered by DGJ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. French the masculine and feminine tenses got the better of me, basically it was a hugh bother at the time and I wanted to understand my math subject as this would decide which uni I went to
2. Lately its been russian, lack of resources can't get intermediate sound tapes, hence lack the pronounciation
3. Right now its Japanese, which I am clinging on to but haven't learnt for 2 months, so you could say I am back to square one as I have slowly but surely forgotten what I was learning. with japanese I was making good progress, but the writing part started to discorage me it was difficult learning the strokes, so if I revert to japanese I will concentrate only on the speaking aspect.
2007-04-07 20:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japanese. It's unlike anything I've studied before and I don't have anyone to practice it with, thus negating the benefits of learning a third language.
Watashi wa nijon jin des ka? Though I'm sure the spellings will be horrible on this. See what I mean?
2007-04-07 20:21:06 · answer #4 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russian, I was learning it from a book and it was not the alphabet that got me, although it is annoying that the letters in script are different to the capitals.It was the cases that threw me, coupled with the fact that I did not have anyone to converse with or correct me.I'm learning Portuguese now.
2007-04-07 23:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Russian
2007-04-07 20:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by J. Charles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried to learn Thai when I was living in Bangkok, but gave up. Too many different accents (5 I believe) which change the meaning ot the word... like in Chinese.
2007-04-07 21:47:33 · answer #7 · answered by Jesus is my Savior 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-07 20:21:51 · answer #8 · answered by TruthIsFreedom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Japanese. I took it for a year in college and stopped because my hearing was deteriorating and it made it very hard .
I should've used a little foresite and taken spanish, since I live in California and lots of jobs have bilingual requirements.
2007-04-07 20:21:00 · answer #9 · answered by heart o' gold 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinese. There are 16 different sounds/ways to say "ma" and they can mean things like rice, ghost, dog, etc.....
Too much for me, shoot, I have a hard time pronoucing my own language until I have had two cups of coffee in the morning.
2007-04-07 20:26:31 · answer #10 · answered by freshbliss 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋