As a native English speaker, I hear things like “this” language is hard/easy to learn. Does this mean it is only hard/easy to learn coming from an English background, or would someone who speaks Spanish also find it similarly harder/easier to learn as well?
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It varies depending on where you are from and what you are native language is. And it has a lot to do with language structure and the way various sounds are made and incorporated into the language..
4 instance, if you are a native English speaker. Japanese will be somewhat difficult for you to learn, but nowhere near as difficult as chinese. Because Japanese has a very different sentence structure, but ultimately all of the sounds made in the language are not that difficult for English speakers to make. And they don’t encode information in ways that are alien to us.
Chinese not only has a similarly weird sentence structure compared to english, but it also is a tonal language. Meaning the actual definition of a word will change dramatically based on the tone used when pronouncing it. That is something that doesn’t exist in English at all. So it is very difficult for english speakers to learn.
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