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19: The Hardest Language in the World (Isn’t the One You Think…)
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What makes some languages harder to learn than others? In this episode, we attempt to entangle the objective factors - as to why a language is complex - from the subjective ones. We also dedicate a section to talking about our experiences with those languages which we traditionally think are the most difficult to master.
Show Notes
Foreign Service Institute Language Rankings (Foreign Language Training)
Can We Measure Language Difficulty by the Numbers? (Ofer Tirosh, TowardsScience)
Rank of Language Difficulty (Michael Campbell, Glossika Blog)
What is the Hardest Language to Learn? (Steve Kaufmann, The Linguist Blog)
Past tense ending in Turkish: ‑mış (TurkishTexbook)
13 Russian Verbs of Motion to Move Your Learning Forward (Kelly Virginia Phelan, FluentU)
Chinese Classifiers: What Are They And How To Use Them ( Angie, ChineseEdge)
Japanese Formal & Informal Speech (Lydia Thron, Wyzant)
Conjugation of The Verb To Eat in Japanese (JapaneseVerbConjugator)
23 episodes
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What makes some languages harder to learn than others? In this episode, we attempt to entangle the objective factors - as to why a language is complex - from the subjective ones. We also dedicate a section to talking about our experiences with those languages which we traditionally think are the most difficult to master.
Show Notes
Foreign Service Institute Language Rankings (Foreign Language Training)
Can We Measure Language Difficulty by the Numbers? (Ofer Tirosh, TowardsScience)
Rank of Language Difficulty (Michael Campbell, Glossika Blog)
What is the Hardest Language to Learn? (Steve Kaufmann, The Linguist Blog)
Past tense ending in Turkish: ‑mış (TurkishTexbook)
13 Russian Verbs of Motion to Move Your Learning Forward (Kelly Virginia Phelan, FluentU)
Chinese Classifiers: What Are They And How To Use Them ( Angie, ChineseEdge)
Japanese Formal & Informal Speech (Lydia Thron, Wyzant)
Conjugation of The Verb To Eat in Japanese (JapaneseVerbConjugator)
23 episodes
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