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Originally Posted by vanik
Its clear then that spanish is wider spread around the world than french or german...
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Yeah, you're right. It has increased a great deal since the last list I saw. Perhaps it was only a some languges from the whole list.
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Originally Posted by haku
However, i disagree with some of the people above, English is by far the simplest language of the Indo-European familly.
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It's a unique language indeed, and not similar to any other. But because of this you'd have a hard time learning it if you had no exposure to it. English is fuuull of exceptions from rules. It's just a mix of everything. It's been losing some of the really heavy things that other languages might strive with, but english is easy almost only because of the cultural influence unto other countries.
An example; Norwegian is veeeery simple. Easy rules with few exceptions. It's not like french or german (i have no knowledge to french, and only speak from what I've heard by other) with hardcore rules and stuff. Norwegian has no casus and has a pretty standard build up of sentences. In some ways it's similar to both English and German, only it has few exceptions and no casuses. If Norwegian would influence as much as English I'm positive Norwegian would be easier to learn. Of course, I can't say that for sure
Hehehe. Dutch is the most similar language to Norwegian grammatically I think.