How many of you have experience learning/teaching a foreign language? I would imagine most of us here are native English speakers. I tried learning Spanish back in school but that was too hard, I wasn't interested and plus the grammar threw me off. I have heard Portuguese is like Spanish ebonics (easier to learn) but I don't know. I am very much interested in learning Russian, Arabic, and Korean, primarily. I can already read and pronounce the basic vowel sounds of Korean, but the rest of the alphabet is proving very difficult to learn. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog have all piqued my interest as well. I think Tagalog would be the easiest out of those four because it's written in Latin script (just like English). Vietnamese is written in Latin script as well but has all kinds of weird little accent marks that might be hard to learn. I have always wanted to learn Japanese because Japanese culture is my favorite culture. Chinese would be very practical (like Arabic) but very difficult because of the reading/writing system, same as Japanese. Not to mention the grammar rules of all these languages would be tricky to learn.
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