Finnish people are really genious

Actually i just did 20 minutes ago.. I saw this youtube movie about a school in Gent (sint-pietersen?) and this west flanders dude got interviewed.. Its actually quite similar to the accent they have here! :lol:
 
my fin friend goes to school 4 hrs a day.. from 11:00 to 15:00... and they have THREE months of vacation :heh: still theyre ahead of us Americans in math and learn english/swedish whereas we are taught italian, which i think is useless :) gawd i would TOTALLY move to scandinavia.. :kickass:

Almost every school is better than American schools :p.
Learning any language isn't useless, just because you arn't a fan of any Italian metal bands :rolleyes:.


P.S. Except for Spanish, all you really need to know is like "Ci, el Buildo me a Decko, $5 Americano!"
 
dude! dutch is one of the hardest languages to learn, it's been proven

but yeah, my dialect is worse :p

Huh? Dutch is one of the EASIEST languages to learn, relative to english speakers.

I mean, I'm certain that grasping all of the subtleties of the language is damn difficult and perhaps one could study it for his/her whole life and still be in doubt in some situations, but ffs, its structure and vocabulary are almost the same as english. It's definitely not like, say, japanese or chinese, which have completely different structures and different ways of thinking EVEN IF their grammar is, in absolute terms, much simpler than the average romance language's.

There was a certain american institute or something that ranked languages of the world according to how difficult they were for english speakers to learn.
Languages like dutch, spanish, french, portuguese have a lot in common with english and thus were placed in the first group. I don't remember exactly the second group, but I think there were slavic languages like russian or polish and aryan languages like hindi and sanskrit(german ranked between those two). The third group had the really awkward ones, like georgian, finnish, japanese, chinese etc. Of course they might be wrong, but I think they have a point.