V for Vendetta

[Schultz]

I'm familiar with those, you can find them all over the net. They're actually quite amusing. I suppose every language has it's own crazy rules. It's related to words in English while in Portuguese it's related to interpretation. Even we native speakers tend to say it's a tricky language because one sentence might have several meanings. But in my opinion, and this is only an opinion, that's not what makes a language hard to learn. I mean, this sort of thing is too advanced for beginners to tackle and those who are already good at speaking the language won't really have a lot of trouble getting used to it. There are languages out there that are far more difficult to learn than English, or Portuguese or Spanish. Finnish has a reputation for being difficult to understand and learn. Mostly because there are few languages closely related to it, making the vocabulary unfamiliar. Also, most people I know that speak German say it was rather hard to learn.

Well truthfully i have actually experiance this issue when talking to some Japanese people. Was trying to find out what the Japanese title of Kiki's deliverly service was in Japanese. I kept saying a girl that is a Witch but it took me a while because they were used to Which instead. Only when i said Magic did they understand cause actually the term for witch in Japanese is Magica.

I might be a little biased about all this because I really like English and don't find it hard at all, never have really. I love the way it sounds. Songs sound better when sung in English, though I think Japanese also fits songs very well. I don't like to hear people sing in Portuguese very much, the sound is too stiff. Well, there is one good thing about speaking Portuguese, at least to me, it makes learning how to speak Japanese quite easy! If I read a Japanese word (written in Romanji) the Portuguese way I'll most likely get it right. We pronounce the vowels, in their pure form, in exactly the same way. Actually, while the Japanese only pronounce vowels like that, we Portuguese have other ways of pronouncing them but that's easy to remember. There are a few other exceptions of course, like the sounds 'shi' and 'chi' (in Portuguese 'chi' sounds like 'shi'), but this is also easy to memorize. Plus, speaking Portuguese makes learning other Romance languages a whole lot easier. The same is also true for English speakers trying to learn other Germanic languages.

I will attest to that. I found it alot easier to learn German when i was in Jr High then when i took a french class.. Man did i hate french.