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This seems to be just a promotional content. Nevertheless, I am glad I read the whole content, because I really didn't think about which languages are hardest to learn. It seems it all goes to Asian group of languages, which certainly would sound very strange to anyone coming from Europe or America. There is Arabic on the list, too. I am not sure I would be able to learn how to speak any of these listed..unless i put a lot of effort.

'I' after 'E': albeit, agreeing, height, kaleidoscope, beige, eight, either, weight, reign, reinstall, reinforce, receive, deceive, deity, feisty, rein, etc. 'I' before 'E': pie, piece, field, shield, brief, chief, relief, mischief, niece, shriek, diesel, movie, auntie, charlie, calorie, genie To be honest, they gave me headache, but are a great way to stay focused.

Oh yes I had an entire course in Shakespeare while studying English language and literature, back in the days. I loved Shakespeare, and still do. I can proudly say I have read almost everything he wrote, and I would be a cliche and say I love Romeo and Juliet, but I do. I am also pretty much inclined towards The Merchant of Venice, Coriolanus, Richard III, and Antony and Cleopatra. I love the language he is using and the way he actually coined many words in English language, such as: green-eyed, gossip, excitement, outbreak, ode, torture, laughable, skim milk, worthless, etc. and some expressions/phrases: All that glitters is not gold (from the Merchant of Venice). Bear a charmed life (from Macbeth) Break the ice. (from Taming of the Shrew) Dead as a doornail. (from 2 Henry VI) Devil incarnate. (from Titus Andronicus/ Henry V) Full circle (from King Lear) Heart of gold (Henry V) Sweets to the sweet. (from Hamlet) Towering passing (Hamlet) The world's my oyster ( from Merry Wives of Windsor) You got to love Shakespeare.

I was amazed that no one is scheduling learning a language for each day, maybe because people have other obligations and just have no time, or not many people have done the poll. I prefer to learn my target language every time I get some chance. But mostly, it is at home, from movies, or software.

Apart from reading fiction in my native language and English, I must admit I tried reading in Russian, but I struggled. Even though I could understand something, literary language is a bit different than ordinary, common, spoken language, and no matter whether I have already encountered Russian throughout my life, it was quite hard to understand. I have tried to read not fiction but literary realism Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

I heard there are some people in the world who speak multiple languages, like famous John Milton, who was and English poet, who wrote his epic work Paradise Lost. He was said to have had the ability to speak many languages, among which are: Latin, French, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Italian, Aramaic, Syriac, English and Hebrew. He was also said to have known Old English, and that he contributed to English language by coining around 600 and some terms. As for the person you mentioned in your comment, I heard of him, but would not simply rely on some interviews and claims...I doubt it really.

Learning a language is great, no matter if the reason behind it is a good one, a useful one, or just plain stupid, like understanding porn. Of course, there might be some cases where some people would opt for picking up some language for reasons like you mentioned above. The thing is that they are at least learning a language, whereas there are so many people around that do not even pick a language even if they have a good reason, like earning some money thus making their ends meet, or learning about the culture, or just picking up a language of the country you next plan to visit.

Most common names (in 2015) in my country, Serbia are: Female: 1. Маrija 2. Мilica 3. Аna 4. Јоvana 5. Sоfija Male: 1. Luka 2. Stefan 3. Маrko 4. Nikola 5. Lazar However, some of the most common names in my country from 1930 onward are pretty interesting, and they are being shown here according to the parts of Serbia they were given in - just follow the link in case you are interested: http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/865393-marija-milica-jelena-najcesca-zenska-imena-u-srbiji-u-proteklih-70-godina-infografik

Unfortunately, I do not use Kik, but I can find you on Viber if you use that one! Thank you for wishing me luck, I wish you luck with your learning, too. Why would you think Serbian is impressive, have you ever visited, or have you had any encounter with a person or language from here? It would be interesting if you have.

Hello there @Chiara Welcome to the forum. In my native language, which is not in your list, but nevertheless. Serbian, we say: Dobrodosla. That means Welcome. I have studied Russian, and French and Greek, and English, as my second language. I have taken great advantage of this forum, learning a lot of diverse things concerning languages. I would love to learn Italian - recently was provided with some software of Italian language on a CD, so I am planning to start soon. Wish me luck.

Very great piece of news! An extensive way to show the advantages of being bilingual, and multilingual for that matter. So many areas influenced just by 'upgrading' your brain to some higher level(s). I have to agree with higher studying potential - It helps me everyday with grammar, formation of the words, and syntax; find better ways, even more creative, and grammatically and linguistically better ways of arranging words in sentences, using punctuation marks, and just playing around with words and expressions, remember them and even make associations with your native language. I like the fact that it helps increase your mathematical skills, too.

Yes I can get your point. Nowadays it seems that everyone is saying 'I love you' to everyone, friends to friends, congregations in churches to their members. The expression has somehow lost its meaning, the depth it is supposed to carry. However, in my native language, saying that I love someone is still a hard thing to do.. I am guessing English is your native language, that is why you mentioned it. Do you guys say 'i love you' to each other often, and has it been leveled in meaning with for instance 'I like you' nowadays?

It certainly is nothing that one should be ashamed of. Accents are all different, and the beauty of it is in the fact that they are diverse, beautiful in each own ways, and should be welcomed. I know many people coming from different countries, who speak English as their second language, myself included. They all sound very different, some sweet, some rough, some comical, sometimes, but they are all very lovely to listen to, and converse with. The beauty of it is that you could have a chance to try to guess which country they all come from, which may turn into a very fun game, for both of you. I personally am more inclined towards British English, but it is not only due to my love towards BE, but mostly because I was surrounded by British people throughout my studies, so I picked up a lot from them, the accent and all.

I do not like swear words. I mean I don't like saying them, especially out loud. I am a lady, after all. But, I can hear swearing all around me. I come from a country where swear words are like bread, everyday thing. People always can't live without them. But, I am guessing it is the same in all Slavic countries. I find swear words to be offensive and degrading. but somethings when using them to joke about something, or in a humorous way, they can be fun, too. I had an ex boyfriend from Serbia, my country, who was swearing every second, like he would say one normal word, and it would immediately be followed by a swearing word, and so on...I really hated that, and I tried to change that in him, but all in vain. I guess it is some habit for him, and it is quite hard to get rid of habits, especially if you really do not pay attention to what gets out of your mouth...

Of course it changes you. Sometimes speaking in my mother tongue, I may feel less productive,almost close to not having enough self-confidence or maybe even not being very knowledgeable, though I can express myself with words pretty well. Strange feelings that do not really rely on any common sense, but they are still occurring and they are still slightly visible. However, when I start speaking my second language, which is English, I tend to gain a lot of self-confidence, that much that I could easily do some public speaking, which I would never even think of doing using my mother tongue. I am guessing that has to have something with the fact that your mother tongue is very closely related to you, and whatever you say in your native language just has some deeper meaning, and one just takes things closer to the heart, in a way. For example, for me saying 'Volim te', in my mother tongue is very hard to utter if I really do not have some deep feelings for someone; however, saying 'I love you' in English, to the same person, is way easier and just does not have the same deep meaning for me, as saying it in my native language does. Apart from gaining some confidence while speaking English, I also express my creativity better - I write better poetry, I write better prose. Strange how language can change your personality.

I have always been attracted to British English. I love London accent because it sounds very posh and very understandable, well at least for those of us that are used to British accents. It does not strike me as a shock or a surprise that exactly that language emerged as a winner as the 'most attractive' accent. It is such a sophisticated way of expressing yourself, almost poetic. Exactly that is the reason why I adore English poetry, especially Jane Austen, Wordsworth and many others, which I have already mentioned couple of times, so far.

Learning a new language for me was greatly beneficial, mostly because it just opened new areas of life to me. These areas include mostly history, geography, background, culture, ethics, moral, law, philosophy, etc.that I could acquire the knowledge of, in the language it was written, and told in. It gave me the the opportunity to grasp the meaning that is not being roughly (sometimes incorrectly) translated to my mother tongue, but rather the meaning that sprang from the native language, in this case, I am having English in mind. Moreover, learning English opened various new paths for me in being able to be a part of some bigger picture, follow the links, forums, blogs, websites, written in English, but not translated into my native language, become more knowledgeable and smarter, even. It helped a lot with my cognitive senses, allowing me to think clearly, see things from different perspectives, dwell upon different matters, reason with them, and see things in a critical way, also learn better and remember, too. Acquiring the new language also led me towards learning a great deal about the culture, make some comparisons with mine, discover the true meaning of a cultural shock, learn about people coming from that culture, and understand their behaviour better.

It was around 2007, a year after I enrolled at the University, studying English language, that I began having dreams in English. The entire dream would be in that language and everyone would be speaking only English. I would also be aware, in some particular dreams, that I spoke English instead of my mother tongue, and would even find it impossible to speak native language, in such dreams.That perplexed me. Our brains are such magnificent machines! It never ceases to amaze me what we are all capable of, and how much dreams can be affected by everyday life.

I have done a lot of teaching. I have obtained BA in English language and literature. So far, I have gave lessons in a private school to kids who were between 8 and 12 years of age. Other than that, I worked as a nursery teacher in an international nursery, working with babies, toddlers and kids up to 6 years of age. I give private lessons in English, too. Apart from teaching, I have done a lot of translating jobs, both translating papers, documents, books,etc., and doing interpreting jobs for foreigner coming to my country.

For me not really. I am from Serbia, surrounded by Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Montenegro..and to be honest, the only languages that I can say I understand are those closest to my own language, and these would be Bosian, Macedonian and Croatian. Well, Croatian and Bosnian are actually almost the same as Serbian, except for different dialects. But, I can't say I can speak them perfectly, or even closely. If I did not live there or had the language taught at school, it would be hard for me to learn it. Maybe those closely related I could learn on my own, but I would still have to have someone coming from that country to at least talk to me .

Seems like one more great application for a language learner. Thank you for sharing, I would take a look at it, and download a version for my android phone. I like that there is Greek and Spanish. I used to study Greek for 2 years at my Uni, but I forgot it :(, and I learned Spanish from soap operas. Russian I studied, too, in my primary school, and it would be ok to brush up on it a bit,too. Thank you again!

Oh this happens to me all the time with my Serbian, the native language,and my English, the second language. Sometimes, being all wrapped up in English everywhere I turn, while speaking in my mother tongue, usually some words in English pop up, and instead of saying 'decak' i say 'boy' or something similar in that respect. I think the more you learn, the more languages you acquire, it becomes quite normal to just switch between languages, unconsciously. I suppose the brain sometimes gets confused, too.

I wondered what was different with the forum. There was something but I guess I already got used to the new version and new colours that I failed to acknowledge that it is changed. Funny that that happened. I love the whole aspect of nature, and the red is striking and really depicts the mystery hidden behind the image. It invokes some deeper thinking, once you start looking at it for some time. Great job!

I have always been greatly drawn to British English. It sounds very romantic, sophisticated, lovely. I had a British boyfriend ones, and I picked a lot of words, and British accent from him and plenty of other British friends I have come across during the course of my life, and I so much got used to it that I do not even know how to even try to speak English with American accent. Especially reading English literature, like Jane Austen, Wordsworth, etc.out loud in British accent, sounds like an inspiration for me; because, usually after I read something like that, even a passage from some novel, immediately I get inspired to write. British accent and English literature have had an immense influence on me while growing up...

I love irregular verbs, which I am sure makes me a nerd. But, even when no one liked them in school, and everyone had a lot of trouble learning them by heart, I found them pretty challenging, which made me put a lot of hours, and days, resulting in me being pretty good at them. I realized I had to learn them as if they were a poem, which actually helped me a lot. I used to also sing them out loud. That was fun, too. I believe the earlier you get to learn irregular verbs, the better. At the early age, I mean. I think I was in my fourth grade when I got introduced to them. That would make me around ten or eleven years old. English is my second language, by the way. I am not saying I am anything special, or boasting around, all I am saying is that I put a lot of effort into learning irregular verbs.It was not even close to an easy task, whatsoever.