Here is a question for you Onrpg.

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The only reason I feel English is semi-easy is because we don't have all those verb conjugations. The verb doesn't change depending upon gender or the size of the group usually, so it seems simpler in that aspect.

But I know we have all kinds of stupid things like "there", "they're" and "their" that most people who speak English natively can't even get right.

Another thing about English is practically any given word can have more than one definition. I dunno if other languages are like that, but I can imagine that being confusing.

[Paladuck]

I think English is more difficult than a lot of other languages because it's a patchwork of several other languages and we have a lot of borrowing, so our rules don't apply evenly across the board.

[hian]

Deaf people can think? Wow, that was news to me... I usually just lump them together with blind people, those lacking a limb, trees, and those people burried in the graveyard.

Not but seriously, they probably just think in terms of emotions and stuff, mostly like young children I guess. Until the point that they learn a language, after which they probably start thinking in that language, just without sound, I guess.

Maybe it's like the feeling I get when I'm really into a book, and I'm no longer really seeing the letters anymore, but just images flashing across my mind.

[Siigari]

The real question is, what voice do people who are mute hear in their heads when they are thinking to themselves?

[bonneau_14]

The real question is, what voice do people who are mute hear in their heads when they are thinking to themselves?

Thoughts...

[djfizzle]

If a person is born Deaf..... what language do they think in?

the real quiestion is what to do people born blind dream about?

[Delamorte]

the real quiestion is what to do people born blind dream about?

mind blown lol

[Xenonight2]

the real quiestion is what to do people born blind dream about?

Somewhat related: http://web.archive.org/web/200608311...19fr_archive01

Read that. You can thank me later.

[shadowsworn]

this article is really cool

+reps

edit: or rather *tries to +rep and can't because he has already done so too much*



I've often thought about the idea myself, about what it might be like to live as a blind or colour-blind person for a day, and vice versa (because I know two guys who are colour-blind, actually). It's kind of hard to imagine, even, really. Sight is, after all, sucha fundamental thing for me. I wonder how a blind person would feel taking my place. "OH HEY I CAN SEE. BUT WAIT, NOW I HAVE PROBLEMS TALKING. ****"

[SgtGrimmVegas]

[Ethelwulf]

spanish is one of the easier languages to learn

If you're speaking broken spanish, that is.

Remember that every verb has different conjugations that depends on the context. Also, spanish words have gender, unlike english ones. For example: "el barco" (the ship), "el" is used when referring to males. Whereas in english you just say "the" (no gender attached).

Many people believe that spanish is really easy, but that's because they're not doing it right.

[Ethelwulf]

That can be said of all the Indo-European languages, even more-so for the Baltic ones if you think about it.

Lithuanian, has gender too, and has more conjugations than Spanish because we also decline for our Nouns and Adjectives (more-so than the Spanish). We also have 5 cases to your 3. To make matters worse, Lithuanian also has 3 different principal parts of the same verb.

In relative terms, comparing Spanish to other Indo-European languages, yes. Spanish is very easy. Viso gero!

We're comparing english and spanish here, so I'm not sure why you brought other languages up.

Either way, the point of my previous statement was to clarify that no language should be labelled as easy, considering they all have a different degree of difficulty. Spanish is my native language, and even then I'm continually learning new things about it, whether it is new words or grammatical rules.

Remember that language is constantly changing, therefore it is virtually impossible to master.

In other words, no language is easy. People who say so are just grasping the basic things of it.