Help with japanese, i trad it for help with english

[Cojo]

Now correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't the diffuculty of learning a 2nd language be dictated by the 1st language. For instance, I am a U.S. citizen and I found German to be insanely easy to learn, of course German is one of the major roots of english and thus the word origins and sentance formations are much more similar then say English and French, one being more Germanic and the other a Romance language. Now my understanding of Dutch is that it is the long term result of hundreds of years of intermingling between French and German speaking peoples. One might figure that this would create a most colourful language with origins lying on both sides of an ancient cultural line. This may be the cause of such difficulties in learning the Dutch language, of course I've never tried to learn Dutch so I don't know how hard it is.

[Dutchman]

well dutch is a difficult languages, here's a link to a few examples why it is so hard :P
The Dutch Grammar Podcast :: audio :: poem: "Oh die moeilijke taal"
i am still searching for people to chat with in MSN in Japanese. Don't forget i can teach english, dutch, german and french (also Latin and ancient Greek but those are dead languages that arn't spoken anymore)

[Maku]

Originally Posted by hopeless

OMGOSH!!!! Nog iemand uit nederland! vet hip....
Nice to have another dutch men here

but dutch isn't the hardest language
Thats france..

French is easy.

[Dutchman]

Yes, French isn't too hard :P i found German hard to learn X_X all those umlauds and such the grammar isn't hard but those things such as a and ä or u and ü :P