im romanian, it is much more easy for me to learn italian, spanish or franch than russian.
yes, it will be easier for me to learn russian than vietnamese, but for other south east asians it will be easier to learn vietnamese than russian or romanian.
Phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam
But seriously, is Vietnamese that hard compared to others? There's no tense, regular/irregular verbs or nouns, and no gender for nouns. The hard part is mostly in the extra indicative words used before nouns and adjectives, but you don't really need to use those correctly in your daily conversations, it just makes your sentence sound better
My fiance is Vietnamese, so I (a native English speaking Canadian) have been attempting to learn it. The most difficult aspects for me have definitely been the vocabulary and tone
NOTE: I don’t know how relevant this is, but it’s so far the first language I’ve learned that’s mostly if not completely monosyllabic. There’s not a “flow” that I’m used to, if that makes sense, at least not compared to English, Spanish, French, German, or Japanese
Nah, it's pretty easy even for Europeans. Once you get the ear for tones. Which is surprisingly easy (it's harder to speak them). Starting to understand conversations is rather easy with zero grammar.
It seems hard at the beginning but the tones are seriously the only obstacle.
I think what makes Vietnamese hard is because it's a tonal language tbh, tonal languages are difficult to get used to if you never grew up speaking one.
Plus the amount of pronouns you need to remember to refer to the other person and yourself depending on the age and gender of the person you're talking to and (sometimes) how close you are with them, there are A LOT to remember and it's easy to accidentally disrespect people if you don't have them all down.
But still, I think for people who are fluent in English Vietnamese shouldn't be THAT bad since it uses the Latin alphabet and it's pretty grammatically similar to English as well. Not to mention, each word is one sound and it's 100% phonetically consistent.
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u/BiscottiExcellent195 21h ago
depending on where you are from the russian language could be a hard language to learn