[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

Tue Jan 20 18:10:05 2004

Try Icelandic. Even place names are declined, so signs _to_ a town read
differently to the signs as you _leave_. And I was just visiting, not trying
to learn the language!

Rich.

Richard Maynard
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> Burch wrote:
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> > I note that she also is required to take driver training course (road
> > training) for a cost of about US$560.  She is being allowed to take the
> > written exam using a translator, but has to be able to
> understand all the
> > road signs.  (She is having a rough time learning Czech.)
>
> 	What's she doing there?
>
> 	As for Czech, I doubt it's any harder than Russian, the worst
> 	of which is the pronunciation.  The grammar is pretty straight-
> 	forward.  It takes a little  getting used to not having
> 	coupling verbs.  EG, in	english you ask "what IS this?".
> 	In Russian, you say, literally,	"what this?".  The connecting
> 	verb is implied.  All in all, slavic languages are pretty
> 	cool.
>
> 	If you want a ball bustingly hard language to learn then go
> 	for either Hungarian or even worse yet, Basque.  Probably
> 	the two most difficult languages on the planet.  German is
> 	considered difficult by most standards and has four cases,
> 	accusative, nominative, genitive, and dative.  Russian adds
> 	two more with locative and instrumental.  Hungarian, I have
> 	been told, has 35 and Basque something like 60.  That is
> 	insane.  I don't know any Basque, but I can say that Hungarian,
> 	though strange, is a really cool language if you can get the
> 	grammar down, which I never really did.
>
> 	Just tell your sister to keep at it.  She'll get past a point
> 	and all of a sudden she will find herself conversing with
> 	relative fluency.  It's a good feeling.
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