which language is the best one in the word?

PiSigma

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in elementary school, french is compulsary.. i was actually pretty good with it until the grammar kicked in back in junior high. some jr. high made french compulsary, some made it into just option course. in high school it is another optional course you can take, but a lot of people take it since they had it since elementary.
 
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Gollevainen said:
Well i've heard about storyes when non-finnsih try to learn finnish...You see english, german, french, russian and other european based languages belongs to the indo-european language group and those all have very simial structure. But finnish is completely different, and it belongs to much more older languahe group called finno-ugrian family. The difference in finnish to other languages is that we don't have no prepositions but each words have it's own (18 in total) placement modes

for example:

In english you say, In the house, from the house, to the house, of the house and so on (i used the colours to indicate which part of the word is what)

Now for finnish the house is Talo, and here's the same forms: Talossa, Talosta, Taloon, Talon

So now you know why I sometimes may confuse some prepositions as they are quite alien to our languages...
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Finnish language structure also share some similarities with Turkish (and maybe some Turkic languages) and Japanese. For exlample ve use word "Ev" for "House" and these forms which have similiar meanings with the ones at top

Evde, Evden, Eve, Evin
 
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adeptitus

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Lucifer said:
Finnish language structure also share some similarities with Turkish (and maybe some Turkic languages) and Japanese. For exlample ve use word "Ev" for "House" and these forms which have similiar meanings with the ones at top
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There's a controversial linguistic theory that Finnish, Turkic, Mongolic, Japanic, Korean, etc. all belong to a hypothetical Ural-Altaic (Turanian) language family:
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However this theory is not widely accepted, comparred to other well-established language family classifications like "Sino-Tibetan" and "Indo-European".
 
Gollevainen

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During times prior WWII all these studies with races and language relations where running quite wild...everyone had obcession to proof either their race superior or at least the neighbours inferior. In fact here in finland some wildest "studies" showed that in fact the finnish language was very similar to japanese!!

But in many cases and unfortunetly it still is so that many of the theories about some language or national groups orgins are politically coloured. For example some of the rightwingers here in finland still refuses to belive that our language comes from russia. They fail to see it that actually the finno-ucric languages where dominant in those large plains long before slavs came there form the west...
 
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Lucifer

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Gollevainen said:
But in many cases and unfortunetly it still is so that many of the theories about some language or national groups orgins are politically coloured.
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Yeah, I know that very well, some exterme right wingers in Turkey believe all other languages came out from Turkish and theories like that. These kind of acts often ruins people's impressions on linguistic researchs and prevent them from searhing for facts. :(
 
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To be best is English period. Easy and nice.

Next is Hindi for the sole reason "chicks sounds seriously hot in it", even better than spanish speaking girls.

Then Spanish a bit easy.

But i'm a fan of Russian language i just love their names. Mikhail/Sharapova etc etc beautiful. I've heard they have some similarities with one of the oldest language of india "Sanskrit".
Well i love Sanskrit too its hypnotizing language but i understand 2% of it.It sounds soothing though.Bengali also sounds too good, its derivation from sanskrit and most of the literary intellects of india are from Bengal.
 
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What's best is the one God speaks. You always know when you've heard from him - and it doesn't matter which language you claim to speak.
 
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I would have to say it's English. Quite flexible for one thing. It's also widely spoken around the world outside of the UK, even in non-English speaking countries.
 
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According to Oxfords, the primary source(s) of words in the English language are as follows:

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...the result of a computerized survey of roughly 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd edition) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973). They reckoned the proportions as follows:

* Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
* French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3%
* Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%
* Greek: 5.32%
* No etymology given: 4.03%
* Derived from proper names: 3.28%
* All other languages contributed less than 1%

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IMO comparred to French or Spanish, English is a very "crude" language. But we're stuck with it as the lingua franca of our era.

As for ease of learning, Spanish is FAR easier to learn than English. If the UN were to take a vote on which language should be adopted as the global lingua franca, or "2nd language for everyone", I'd cast my vote for Spanish.
 
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