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Subject: Re: Which language is easier to learn?
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Uzytkownik "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> napisal w wiadomosci
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> hs wrote:
>
> > And also danger of confusion - words differing by one letter only are
much
> > easier confused. The prefix "s-" in Italian gave me quite some problems
> > ("conosciuto" and "sconosciuto" should *better* not be confused, for
their
> > menings are opposites...)
>
> Exactly right. There is even worse: "can" and "can't" in some varieties
> of American English.
>
> This is a reason why I think that Indonesian is difficult: many words
> differ by only one letter. Binatang "insect", bintang "star", merah
> "red", marah "angry", and so on.
>
> Also compare the declensions of German and of Russian. Russian has
> long suffixes: you just cannot mistake one case for another. German...
> well, from your name, I guess you know the language!
But if I say 'dyevushke', how do you know whether that's dative or locative?
Am I giving 'to the girl'? Or am I 'in the girl'? Or does the expectation of
the second notion determine the fact of the first?
Uncle Davey
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