5 Hard Languages That Are Actually EASY to Learn

[@storylearning]

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[@TitoNaMacho]

Hey Olly, Filipino here from the Philippines. I would say that Tagalog is just a little bit harder than Indonesian and Malay, but it's still in the category of "easy languages to learn for English speakers." I agree with everything you said about my language. Maraming salamat dahil sinama mo ang Tagalog sa video mo!

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

Welsh is such a beautiful language and I started learning the basics recently. I'd like to one day be able to speak my ancestral languages, and Scottish Gaelic is the one I've been focusing on the most. Being able to speak both one day would be so incredible. ❤

[@tomthomas9708]

How lovely.

[@JR-rf9sq]

When I was young, I promised to myself that no matter what I did in life I would never go anywhere near German as a language because I thought it was literally impossible to learn as a non-native. Until one day, five years ago, when curiosity got the best of me and I decided to give it a try just to see if I was right. Now I'm way too into it and can confidently say that it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb]

A same video on Hungarian😅, please! So, we`ll be motivated towards learning Hungarian ❤

[@jeffjones4654]

Welsh is actually very straight forward. The only problem I had is the sound mutations.

[@jerryclancy4807]

I am learning a lot of Germanic languages and I find that your readers in these languages are first-rate, not not just for reading in the language at your own pace but for comparative purposes as well.

[@tomthomas9708]

No language is easy to learn!

[@jeremysargent5037]

I am learning German now and it seemed hard to me and French seems hard. Ironically I was bad at languages in school but I managed to learn Modern Greek fluently to a bilingual level and I don't really consider Greek as being too difficult because it is extremely easy to read, pronounce and the grammar rules are relatively simple.

[@xtaltheo170]

thanks I feel like language wise. We really do have an ability to excel in anything if there’s enough passion. I don’t believe anything is hard.

[@gregorybrannan7202]

The Welsh dialect of English is my favorite English dialect!

[@martalli]

Kannada is pretty approachable for English speakers. It may be from a different language family, but the grammar is pretty regular and compact.

[@Roly679]

Thanks for this video, Off to Germany next month will have to had 'jein' into my limited vocabulary Quite ite like your description of Welsh, a game of Scrabble gone wrong. When the Ryder cup came to the Celtic Manor Newport, one of the Americans was asked for his thoughts of the Welsh language, he replied "something made up in a bar after 4 o'clock in the morning".

[@Thatboymeher]

I haven’t watched the whole video but one language that I would say is PRETTY EAST, is Indonesian. Doesn’t have genders, plurals, articles, suffixes, sentences are easy, the ONLY thing is, if you don’t speak any east asian languages (well south east to be more specific) basically all the words are new, like in almost any language, you can find a couple similarities, but it’s basically like the hard part of Indonesian is that it’s not “connected” to any other languages (again, any Indo-European, or even the “holy trinity” of east asian languages), so everything is a new word. Other than that, I would say it’s a pretty easy language to learn and “add to your resume”

[@tiffanimilburn8885]

As a native inglish speaker, I've been enjoying learning german.

[@Ploddingalong67]

*English

[@MegaMinerd]

One thing that helps with language learning is the right mindset. One of the biggest hurdles is the intimidation. Bad: Chinese has thousands of characters! Good: In English, you have to memorize the spelling and pronunciation of pretty much every word and there are over 100 thousand. In Chinese, you just memorize the pronunciation and meaning of a few thousand characters and then the big words are free Bad: Turkish has vowel harmony. It'll be hard to get used to changing the vowel every time. Good: In most languages, you have to memorize which of the vowels are in each syllable, sometimes there are dozens of possibilities. With vowel harmony, you only need to remember if the entire segment is type 1 or type 2.

[@xochilguevara3429]

The first time I heard Romanian I thought it was Italian with a Russian accent.

[@corinna007]

Still waiting for a dedicated video on Finnish... 😅

[@RogerRamos1993]

Have you ever looked at a foreign language and said there is no way I could learn that? Yes, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Thai, Zulu, Khosa, Hungarian.

[@carolannhartley359]

I LOVE the sound of the Nguni languages so am really enjoying learning Zulu, cos I couldn't find a free Xhosa course. And it's written using the Roman alphabet, big help.

[@carolannhartley359]

Four cases PLUS the genders, & f/m make German harder than i think it needs to be. I wish they would make a grammatical change or 2, as the Dutch did.

[@cleancoder3838]

19:19 sentence word reordering is also allowed in German to emphasize the word or action you want to highlight. Although there are a few incorrect word orders especially when it sounds like yoda. Yoda style is definitely wrong.

[@gregorybrannan7202]

Wait! If you don’t get German cases, you might as well be speaking GREEK!? Surely you jest! 😂

[@TiffanyHallmark]

Îmi place limba română foarte mult. 💙💛❤️ Este ușor să înțeleg😊și să vorbesc

[@shiptj01]

Romanian sounds like a mix between Spanish and Russian.

[@hazeyfade9839]

Swahili

[@balkanmadnessmadeinaustria5837]

*Maybe I'm biased, but mastering german will give you one of the biggest satisfactory moments of your life. It's just a very fun and expressive language that can open up new doors to new languages.*

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

German sooo many suffixes and prefixes

[@uhmapper]

German is too hard for me

[@ckskuo7182]

Ni en pedo el Rumano es facil Inlcuso para los que hablamos lenguas romances resulta muy dificil de aprender, no tiene tantos aspectos gramaticales dificiles como otras lenguas romances pero aun asi tiene una gramatica algo tediosa A eso hay que sumarle que no hay tantos recursos para aprenderlo Para mi como un nativo del Español, es mas probable que termine hablando Ruso fluido antes que el propio Rumano

[@valentinlechner4079]

Instead of mentioning Chinese, a very analytical language, you actually chose one of the hardest languages possible.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Chinese and Japanese very hard

[@chaichapstick]

mandarin chinese is extremely hard for somebody not used to tones. in fact, most tonal languages are extremely hard for english speakers. as somebody who actually studied welsh for a few years, i found it to be the easiest language i had ever tried to learn, whereas i have to keep starting mandarin over and over bcuz it can't stick in my head

[@Leonardo-jz5jf]

@@chaichapstickI’m learning Chinese, the tones are hard at first but after you get used to them Chinese isn’t complicated that much, just writing is tough for me now

[@kapuzinergruft]

Chinese, I can speak on a middle level. But the signs give me a hard time. 使 便

[@cleancoder3838]

2:39 I find it interesting that the 4 cases are displayed in an unusual order. Genitive is usually the 2nd case, not the 4th (although they are not numbered), and accusative is usually the 4th, not the 2nd to display. Furthermore the genitive sentence "Die Flügel des Drachen sind riesig" is slightly incorrect. As in English, there's a possession-"s" in German as well, as the 2nd case genitive describes possession. So it is slightly more similar to English as the sentence should be "Die Flügel des Drachens sind riesig" (instead of "des Drachen"). The word "Schlagenbeschwörungsmeisterau" is unknown to me and most likely incorrect as "meisterau" or "au" itself is not a valid word. I guess the word is spelt wrongly or there are additional letters missing.

[@lisamarydew]

And what did you LIKE about the video?

[@cleancoder3838]

@lisamarydew What type of question is this?

[@Leonardo-jz5jf]

English is the easiest language to learn, despite popular sentiment

[@kapuzinergruft]

Its Indonesian

[@carolannhartley359]

A lot of second-language English speakers agree with you, they say because even if you make grammar errors or just use pidgin, you are likely to be understood.

[@James-hs3tu]

WHY. You Study. Mongolian. At your job or home town. There. no one speaks Mongolian. Why Bother. ?? Never going to Mongolia.

[@anotparticularlynotableguy]

Cool video I love it but please don't use ai

[@lisamarydew]

🤔

[@BickBull]

Something is funny, me speaking butchered up in any language to anyone is like speaking other whole language, and in Portuguese (wich is my main language) i can talk to my mother very butchered up at point is untranslatable but also only native Portuguese speakers understand but many letters are simply silent and very vogal dependended and putting it all up together like a big word like german, that actually helped me develop quick speech...