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• a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well what would be an easier language ? French? Dutch? Not German, that one looks atrocious. If it’s not relative then all foreign languages are hard to newcomers I guess. Personally I remember that learning enough English so I can somewhat communicate was quite easy because of the mass of available content to read / listen to / watch.

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spanish and Portuguese would probably be easier to learn than English, same for French. If you knew German and/or English, Dutch might actually be a little easier than you’d think!

    The amount of entertaining media out there definitely works in favor of English though, I have to agree with you there.

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    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m 40 years into trying to become fluent-ish in Dutch and it’s going to need another lifetime to get there unfortunately. So English to Dutch ain’t much of a passerelle.

      Back in the days it is said that our Dutch speaking neighbours had an « easier » time learning English because they didn’t had much in the way of local content. Whereas as a French speaker we have all dubbed so less pressure to get introduced early to English.

      I find it super funny that you position French as easier than English. In what language are you native? From my anecdotal evidence discussing with a sizeable amount of foreigners French is among the most hated / difficult western language to learn. Possibly because of all the prononciation shenanigans, it’s not like in Dutch and English where sounds are somewhat logical.

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      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        English. I hated learning French and don’t really know it, but I’m going off of what others who do speak French have told me.

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