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It certainly isn't the hardest (Romanian and then French might be that) Larry Send a noteboard - 23/12/2012 07:42:38 PM
It is far more regular than Spanish in verb conjugation, easier to pronounce and has far fewer loan words from American Indian and non-European sources. The roots are so close to Latin that in many cases a well-educated English speaker will know cognates almost immediately, whereas in Spanish (and even more so in Portuguese) these can be obscured by the barbarization of Latin that took place in the Iberian peninsula after the fall of Rome (and, in some cases, even before it).


But for an American speaker who does have many of those loan words in the vocabulary, I would think Latin American Spanish dialects would be easier. Portuguese is harder for the vowel sounds, which aren't as "pure" as in Spanish or Italian.

As for the barbarization, there is that saying, "beati hispani quibus vivere bibere est," to consider ;)
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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