Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours agoThe main difficulty I guess is more for reading and writing than speaking I guess… when you are encountering a new word, you don’t know how it is going to be spelled or pronounced, and it can be difficult to predict what it will mean sometimes because of all the different roots and pre-postfixes. You just have to learn it and remember it. There is no overarching system lie in Spanish, there are many competing systems.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yes, I agree, learning to write English is harder than to write Spanish, in fact Spanish has the most phonetic writing of all the languages I know. But your question was about babies learning, which is solely spoken language, you only learn writing after you’re already a fluent speaker.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Yes the original question was about how long it would take to be able to speak, and you’re right I don’t really know which would take longer, English or Spanish.
I learned that Danish takes a long time though lol.