I know this is subjective since a person that knows English would be able to learn Spanish more quickly than say, Chinese. But in light of that please discuss which language you think is the hardest to learn.
Before you start questioning other people's intelligence, you might want to consider that that was the impression you gave in your post. You're telling everyone that it's overrated just because of the tones, and that you've managed to pick them up through "osmosis". But my point was that you living there is the main variable between you learning learning Chinese, and say, those learning Chinese in a Western country. I don't think it's overrated because of the tones.
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>the impression you gave in your post
You mean, the way you misinterpereted it. These are different things. People who are not retards think differently than you do! That's why you had to be in a special class at school and weren't allowed to hug everybody.
庭にわ二羽鶏がいる。
niwa ni wa niwa niwatori ga iru.
There are two birds in the garden.
Er, sorry... the first one is "There are two chickens in the garden."
Wasn't really thinking...
I've heard that Japanese pronouncing would be 'easy' to learn if you are fluent in Finnish. Figured it would be same thing vice versa. There is a word descriping languages whichs pronouncing is how they are written, aw anyway. I don't know how to put it, so bare with me:
I speak english obviously, haha, but I took Italian in school. It's very hard, so I'm going to say Italian. It's very fun and beautiful though. Hmn, but Japanese and Chinese and german look hard as well. Well, writing the language does... Ah well, and I dont see how english is hard though, I can understand spelling, but pronounciation?
Anyone who has an idea what kind of a language Finnish is would agree on it being the hardest one, really!
I would say chinese is the hardest. you need lots and lots and lots of will power to keep going.
I live in china and i've been studying chinese for 2 years(only 1 in china). I am a native english speaker.
I know this is going to make me sound weird or something, but I really find that Chinese and Japanese were easy for me to learn... I'm by no means fluent in either, but I picked up lots of stuff really fast. I think it just depends on how devoted you are to learning the language, and I really think that you should make yourself have fun with it rather than putting stress on yourself when you learn it.