English is Difficult...

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French: Spoken in France and Canada.

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I think you've missed the entire continent of Africa. They almost all include French as a national language in addition to their local language due to France's colonial presence there for so many years.

When I was talking about the abstraction of language, I think I went a little too far, and ended up overstating and not really projecting what I meant...

What I was trying to convey was that, abstractly, if all languages were just an outline, compared to eachother they are just as equally difficult. All languages are complex in their own rights, and as I was saying, it's to what you've been exposed to linguistically that will determine the ease and manner in which you learn a language. They all have their own phonology, abstractly, semantics, morphology, syntax and lexicon. And as for the German versus English, yes, it may be harder but I was stating more along the terms of the form and the phonetics, the vocabulary is similar in many ways. It's not as if you have to go and learn a completely new alphabet with far different pronounciations and completely foreign usage as you would with learning Russian or Greek. I hope that made sense, because it's making sense to me..... *LOL*

And, Negative.....from your previous statements about language and culture, thought you might enjoy this:

http://www.sunflower.com/~dewatson/dma-ls02.htm

It's the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity....just an article on it, but it's something worth a few comments, as there is a lot to it....

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Originally posted here by str34m3r


I think you've missed the entire continent of Africa. They almost all include French as a national language in addition to their local language due to France's colonial presence there for so many years.

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France as well as the Cote d'Ivoire, Haiti......and hundreds of other places you would never suspect French being a dominant language. Frenchies are everywhere. MUAHAHAHA....