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Re: In your opinion, would it be hard for an English speaker to learn your tongue? -
1 March 2008, at 16:55
English speakers generally do not have any problems learning ours (Tagalog). Although at first, they do speak in terms of choppy grammer and have pronounciations.
It's seems odd that I seem to notice that Tagalog and German share a lot of similarities in terms of pronunciation. The most obvious one would be to pronounce the letters as is (except in German, d sounds more like a t, etc). Secondly, our grammar is also quite loose.
But my Japanese teacher (for my course on foreign language) told us that Tagalog, even for us speakers is not being fully-explored and that it is one of the more complicated languages. I guess since I'm always speaking it, I did not find it very complicated, but a more sensitive look at its differences from other languages lead me to the conclusion that, yes, it is quite complicated.
But English-speakers who are very interested should not have a hard time. German-speaking people, well, I have an Austrian professor who learned to speak it very well, he even got the manner of expressions right.