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From: Robert@cartel.westfalen.de (Robert)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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Stephen and Alan <twozies@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Phil Gustafson wrote:
>> 
>> In article <31EF1E8A.3440@frontiernet.net>,
>> Barbara P. Carlson <lfcbpc@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>> >> Arabic is not difficult at all compared to many Amerindian languages.
>> >> No, I certainly would not rate Arabic as difficult to learn, let alone
>> >> "the most difficult"!
>> >
>> >

>	I always wanted to learn Arabic..but it isn't one of the Foreign Languages that are 
>taught at the high-school I go to.  But isn't it hard because there're like 4 different 
>forms of each letter or something?

>-Stephen


>> >Neither would I.  The most difficult appeared to be the "Eskimo"
>> >languages and Basque, when I was studying linguistics many years ago.
>> 
>> Really?  I ddn't think there was much left of the languages after you
>> learned the two hundred or so words for "snow" and (in the other case)
>> "sheep".
>> 
>> Phil "Whorf !R moi" G.
>> --
>> Phil Gustafson        "Hey!  You look like two old hippies"
>> phil@rahul.net              Even older hippie, Golden Gate Park,
>> pgustaf@eng.sun.com            to Phil Gustafson and Madeleine Page

No doubt Arabic..is very hard (maybe the hardest)

I heard this comment once by worldfamous Rightwing author and
historian ect. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (speaks 8 languages
and has a reading knowledge of 11 others (now 87 years old learns
Arabic at the mo: ..i was told when i learn Hebrew not to complain
that much since Arabic is 10 times harder..(then laughing:well its
100  times harder..it takes kids 3 years to learn to read and write..
..i can do that now..does not mean i understand it yet though:)

Greetings

from Germany

Robert

PS:read Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihns works..they are a MUST;)


