Subject: A little help

Viggo Mortensen

Probably the only guy you could come up with :D

Viggo mortensen.. lol..

he <isnt that good in danish, he ws i a danish talkshow a few years ago right after Hildago, he didnt wanna talk danish cause he almos forgot how to speak it..
and in this clip (newer) hes speaking so slow that its almost annoying..

http://www.youtube.com/v/EMazQWzX66o&feature=PlayList&p=39FE92BA1A31F226&index=32

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grtz

You Danish talk way to quick. Your language isn't difficult, most words are regular (North) Germanic words, but it's very difficult to learn the language since you are really fast talkers.

hmm we talk quick because we think quick.. :)
well never thought of it that way..
I've allways been told that danish is one of the hardest language to learn, only beaten by finland(ish) ? what ever its called.

That would be Icelandic, I think.

Okay really?? ive allways been told that.. but okay, now i think about it, i also once saw a dokumentary about some guy learning icelandic in 1 week, because that was one of the hardest to learn..

ur propably right..

Probably the only guy you could come up with :D

If you know any other New Yorker who is almost Danish and speaks Spanish with perfect Argentinian accent, let me know :P

Carrie from sex and the city ??

Anyone stating that any language is the hardest to learn is talking bullshit. Danish and Icelandic are definitely not the hardest languages. For anyone speaking any Germanic language it should be quite easy.

Icelandic is very archaic and looks much like Old Germanic languages like Old Norse and Anglo Saxon.

Danish has a lot of similarities with Norwegian/Swedish, German and Frisian, especially North Frisian (I don't speak that language though).

There are a lot of languages which use clicks or have a very limited amount of concepts. They are definitely much harder than any Indo European language.

i'd say english is one of the hardest to learn, especially if you're not taught it a lot when you're young. quite a bit of it just doesn't make sense to those poor people who learn it as a second language

learning spanish was rather easy, even forme.

ive forgot all of it though ;)

Language difficulty is a realtive concept. There's no such thing as "the most difficult llanguages to learn". There's the most difficult language for me to learn, the most difficult language for you to learn, etc.

As you say:
For anyone speaking any Germanic language it should be quite easy.

which is probably true. It doesn't mean that if you are a nativ Arab speaker, or Spanish speaker, or Guaraní speaker, or whatever, Germanic languages may be teh most difficult to learn. Or maybe "just difficult", with some other language being the hardest one (not to mention that it can be person specific, but still, on average).

So I agree with your first statement, but I'm not so sure the last one applies to everyone ;)

I made no distinction between first and second language speaker. If you are able to speak English at an advanced level, even though it's not your native language, it shouldn't be too difficult to learn Danish.

And it might be true that English may be a difficult language, the fact that it is heard almost everywhere makes for everyone relatively easy to learn the language.

A big advantage is that English, but also Scandinavian languages and Africa are highly analytical language. This makes morphology very simple (i.e. that you only need to learn a word, not how it is deflected.

On the other hand, however, you have German which is still very synthetic and Frisian, which skipped the middle period and only recently became more analytic. In Frisian conjunctions can be deflect by person. E.g. 'as' means 'if'/'as'/'than' in the 1st and 3rd person singular and all plural persons, 'ast' or 'asto' also means 'if'/'as'/'than', but only in the second person singular.

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That might be true..
so maiby for us europeans chineese is the hardest to learn?
ive been told that they have over 5000 zidoac'

That would be Icelandic, I think.

no, Icelandic is a North Germanic language as well. It is still very close to old Norse, the language spoken all over Scandinavia in the middle ages. It just did not develop much, while Swedish and Danish changed a lot.
Finnish is much harder to learn for us because it's related to Estonian and Hungarian. They have like 8 different casus... impossible to learn.
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