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If only Finnish had its own script, it would be even harder.
I remember reading a little book on Czech for tourists, and it started with their seven cases, I think that's a bit beyond tourist-speak. Although it would be hard to say or understand anything without the cases, it's not something you can learn in a few days. Even with German I would just have to mumble the den/dem/der and hope the meaning is clear from word order.

Czech is a typical irregular, hard to pronounce, full of weird nonsensical things, Slavic language

native Slavic speaker here, i can vouch from personal experience our languages make little sense more often than not.

it has 7 cases, but cca 25 declension patterns for any kind of words that can be declined.

Even Latin is simpler than that, but it's syntax is way beyond anything that can be seen in an IE language today.

but yes, Finnish is an invention from their Nordic hell

Satana perkele! Mansikka. Yksi,kaksi,kolme... that's all the Finnish that I know

I would also put Polish on the difficult language list...

Only 3 posts to go to declare this thread as useless and to be locked....

No Pm.

We now have more posts in this thread talking about languages than the Foreign Language forum

I like how the Slavic languages sound, but their grammar is insane. Polish is probably one of the closest languages to Czech, but I think Czech had more cases or something. I don't speak either.

No, don't lock the thread! Thanks to this thread we have learned a great many things about sausages, cats and languages. Finding a girl is a numbers game according to PUA people (and they should know, they are expertologists in womenz studies), let this thread continue until Boo has either married or died. Every extra post may attract female attention here.

In keeping with our tradition of posting sausages I'll post what I am now putting in the oven: WORSTENBROODJES! It is a sausage with a layer of bread as "protection". And as everyone knows, a sausage is a good source of protein.

I think French is an inefficient language, I recall I bought once two Harry Potter for two little cousins - same book, one in French and one in English, and the French one was larger.

English is richer and more efficient while French stretches the same sentence.

Arabic is way more efficient than French as well.

For example:

In English: "I miss you". - three words, direct and simple!

In classic Arabic (dialects even make sentences shorter) : أنا اشتقت اليك - literally means "I miss you"; three words, direct and simple!

In French..... "Tu me manques" - Literally means "YOU are lacking to me" - seriously french?? Couldn't you invent a more direct expression? lol Couldn't you simply invent the verb "Miss" so you can say "Je te <non-existent-verb>?


Things even get more complicated in indirect person.

In English: "My mom misses me" - three words, direct and simple!

In classic Arabic: "أمي مشتاقة الي" - three words,same literal meaning, direct and simple!

In French: "Je manque à ma mama" - literally means " *I* am lacking to mom" - LOL

Another example:

In English: "I trust you" - SIMPLE!

In classic Arabic: أنا اثق بك - same literal meaning of English and same word count- direct and simple!

In French however...: "J'ai confiance en toi" - literally means "I have confidence in you" or "je te fais confiance" (I give you my trust) - or "je compte sur toi (I count on you).


Not only the french languages add word count but it also tends to be indirect - catching the left ear with the right hand.

Les misérables in English is 560,391 words.

Les misérables in French is 655,478 words.

Victory! WORSTENBROODJES are out of the oven!

I agree that French is awful. Many people seem to think it's a beautiful language, but I think languages such as Russian or Persian or Faroese sound much better.
Another thing is that the spelling of French is not that phonetic, so you will have to learn the words. English is even worse with this: through, though, trough. In all cases the ou is pronounced in a very different way FOR NO REASON. German is more or less the opposite, once you learn the rules of pronounciation you can pronounce every word without having to learn it.

I'm not sure it is easy to measure the "efficiency" of a language accurately, linguists seem very heistant to do that, and also to determine what languages are hard or easy. In many cases languages can make up for not having certain words, or certain grammar. Polish has no articles but Polish people can still say everything in their language without problems. I think I can say everything I want in Dutch even though it doesn't have 127 cases like Finnish.

Btw, Arab teacher lady is also learning German, and her pronounciation is pretty ok, she made a few mistakes (pronouncing schön (beautiful) as schon (already).

I feel you're starting to fancy this Arab teacher, maybe you should PM her or take skype courses with her?

^^^ Too bad she is Christian. I would have to deconvert her first.
And she lives in Italy I think, and the Italians are even more broke than the Dutch, so she would have to live with me in Glorious country of Netherlands.

You said it was Allah al Rab, but in her video it said Allah al 'ab (with the ' thing standing for that grunt sound that Arabic has, but she did not pronounce it as an R). Maybe that is her local Palestinian dialect?

I think the Faroese language sounds really nice too, as well as the other Scandinavian languages. They sound more sing-song than Dutch or German, and they seem to be similar but beyond understanding to me, I only understand small bits sometimes. Here is an old folk song done by metal band Týr - Grímur á Mildanesi, first part is folk song and then it turns into metal adaptation. These scandinavians are weird. Awesome, but weird.





Most of their songs seem to be about medieval history, the settling of Faroer Islands and viking stuff.