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LiberalEsto

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3. Huh. I was speaking Estonian by age 1!

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 11:38 AM

Oct 2013

Thanks to my parents, Estonian immigrants who also spoke fluent English, German and Russian. I can still speak and write Estonian.

I picked up English quickly in started kindergarten. Took 3 years of German in high school. Total waste of time.

It's fairly easy to learn a language before age 7. After that it can be a bitch.

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Hardest language to learn. [View all] dipsydoodle Oct 2013 OP

Where does Navaho fall in this list? JayhawkSD Oct 2013 #1

Reasonable answer here dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #2

Interesting, thanks. JayhawkSD Oct 2013 #4

Huh. I was speaking Estonian by age 1! LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #3

Funny, isn't it? ChazInAz Oct 2013 #5

Lots of silliness and multiple standards at play. Igel Oct 2013 #6

The blog post in the OP makes claims that seem to be ill-defined and unsupported with data... xocet Oct 2013 #7

Japanese twern't easy. masmdu Oct 2013 #8

There are some nice tongue twisters, but Finno-Ugric languages aren't bad either jakeXT Oct 2013 #9