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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on how you interpret languages. Spanish is phonetic, but the preterite and how fast people speak it can get to some learners. French is less phonetic, letters that are silent, but I find the grammar easier. Brushing up on it now.[/quote]

The hardest part about Spanish is the fact that people in different countries have such different accents and often different words for the same thing.  (Like if you use the Mexican word for peach in Spain, they will not know what you are talking about.).

I also studied Russian and it is way way harder than the Romance languages. The rules are super confusing and then there are just so many exceptions to the rules.  The only upside to Russian is that they have about 100 phrases that people say a lot, so if you learn some basics you can get pretty far.  And the technical words are basically like legos — they are all word parts put together into really long words that are hard to say but if you know the different parts you can break it down easily.

I was surprised to hear that Arabic is on the hard list — my friends that have taken it say formal Arabic is very consistent so easy to learn — but that there are a lot of variations on the different countries so perhaps from the state department perspective, that’s the problem.

Irish seems to me totally impossible.  And I think adult English speakers literally don’t have the right brain synapses to hear the various tonal differences in Chinese due to synaptic pruning.  [/quote]

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