To: beaversmom
Chinese and Japanese are difficult because you have to memorize what characters mean. It’s not extremely formulaic.
Russian was pretty good for me. I didn’t have any other prior foreign languages to get me confused on things like gender of words. I still remember that being an issue for some folks in the class.
8 posted on
05/31/2015 8:21:37 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Did you learn Russian for a specific reason or just something you desired?
To: Secret Agent Man
Gender of words is alien to English speakers. But for me, I found this easier than French -- French assigns "gender" so randomly it's impossible to know by a word what it is. Polish on the other hand is simple in that respect -- if it ends in a consonant then its male, if it ends in an "a" it is most likely female (with some exceptions like "mężczyzna" - "man" :) and if it ends in "o" it is neuter
23 posted on
05/31/2015 8:32:58 PM PDT by
Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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