Who think italian is difficult? And who think english is difficult?

Question

The language Italian is very easy, because as it is written it reads, while english is a stupid language.
I'm italian and I think grammar italian is veri difficult, while grammar english is too easy!

I didn't mean that English is a stupid language. The pronunciation of the words is too difficult, because a lot of words are pronounced equally. In Italian languages the letters have an own pronunciation.For example the letter "a" it is always pronounced "a", the letter "e" it is always prononced "e", etc...
Excuse me!

In Italiano la pronuncia resta sempre quella che è, la lettere "a" si legge e si leggerà persempre nei secoli avvenire "a", come per la "e", Per La u, e così via...
In Inglese la "a" certe volte si può leggere "o" "a" "e" "uo" "au", non ha una regola precisa!

Comunque io vado al Liceo Classico e faccio lettere e ti posso assicurare che la pronuncia inglese è bella ma non è precisa, perchè non segue delle regole sintattiche precise!

Answer 1

I was introduced to French/Spanish/Italian when I was in 5th grade about 10 and then continued with Spanish up to the present day. I took a year of Italian in 10th grade and I didn't find it very difficult at all. It had a plentiful supply of cognates and similarities with Spanish (as do all the romance languages) so I caught on rather quickly. My only difficulty in Italian was that sometimes I'd pronounce the words as I would in Spanish or English. Since Italian accents are only written for the final vowel, I found it a little difficult to pronounce the words accurately. That was one aspect in which I prefered Spanish, since the stress follows the accent.

On another note, English I have heard is one of the most difficult languages to learn just because of its extensive vocabulary and its preservence of old spellings with silent letters and the such (like French and their vowels). Plus, a large majority of English verbs are irregular and need to be memorized. On grammar, even native English speakers go on learning grammar for their entire lives and sometimes never fully adhere to its rules. The more you learn, the more there is to learn. Of course, basic grammar is easy in any language, it's when you get into the intricacies that you get in trouble!

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

I think italian it's harder just because it's only used in Italy, however, as Spanish speaker i understand a lot of Italian words, i don't think english it's hard, i might be wrong when i use english, but i've learned all that i know of english all by myself, not by going to classes or anything just listening and practicing.

Anyways i don't think there's a real reason to start a fight of course everybody will say good things about his language even though sometimes they don't really think like that.

Answer 3

Italian is phonetic, so it's easy to learn the pronunciation, whereas it can be more difficult to learn to pronounce English since the same letters have different sounds.
Now, Italian grammar, like you said, is more complex than English grammar...
However, I wouldn't say that English is a "stupid" language... there's no such thing, and we have to respect others. You wouldn't like it if they called Italian "stupid" now, would you?...

Answer 4

I am part Italian and I don't know any of their language, and I've tried to learn it, but it's so hard. My first language is English and it's not that hard if you have someone to say something to you. Like this:
Italian words from friend: Ciao in inglese è Hello

Answer 5

English pronunciation is quite difficult but as long as somebody explains you how to pronounce correctly, you'll be fine. Italian, just like Spanish grammar, is very difficult I wouldn't say English is a stupid language especially when your grammar sucks(I'm not saying mine is better).
P.S aprende ingles bien antes de criticarlo.

Answer 6

You are obviously really ignorant on the nature of language. The fact is that for many people, Italian is very difficult to master. For others, not so much. The reason is that everyone on earth is born with the inate ability to learn any language. As we grow up, however, we lose that knack. Thus, if you are exposed to different kinds of languages from an early age, your ability to master them increases. So if you learned Italian or English from a young age, naturally it would be easier for you to learn. It has nothing to do with how easy or hard the language is. And if you did not get exposure to it until late, then you would find the language very difficult.

You may also want to practice your English. You say it is too easy, and yet you made several errors in your question. For one thing, you contradicted yourself by saying that Italian was very easy, and then saying it was very difficult later. You spelled "very" wrong. You did not capitalize English or Italian. It would appear that you are not exactly an authority on language, and are really not in the position to judge them.

Answer 7

well you would think italian is easy because that is the language your used to but i think english is easy and makes a lot of since beacuse its the language im used to.
PS: if english grammar is so easy then why was everything you wrote improper grammar?

Answer 8

english is a difficult language.there are so many rules and exemptions to those rules that basically you learn as you go.i only realized how hard it was when trying to explain to a 9 year old who had english homework why knife had a silent k...or why phlegm cant just be written with a simple f...

Answer 9

metomorphisus (sorry if there is a typo) google hard to pronounce english words then there will be a list sites you can go to. :)

Answer 10

depends on what languages you speak, i know spanish and if you slow down can undestand italian.