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Old 02-21-2005, 03:26 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Nana_Brazil
Hi, guys if you have to rank the 3 most difficult languages which ones would you choose?
It would depend on what your mother tongue is. For English speakers, Asian languages tend to be the most difficult, and I expect that would apply to most Europeans. Languages like Chinese which use tones to convey word meanings are very hard for us to learn to speak fluently.
Zhongguohua hen nan!!

But I have heard that Basque is an impossible language (invented by the Devil himself according to one legend...)
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