“Hi” in Russian – Привет (privyet) It’s easy to say and chances are you’ll get it right on your first or second try Even though it’s officially considered an informal way of saying hello, you can get away with in many cases

The German word “ja” means, first of all, “yes” in English and it is also frequently used as a filler word in German random speech a) Das ist ja mein Buc

a negative response

папа {m} dada (also: dad, daddy, father, pa, papa, da)

Filters Used to describe that something is expected to happen but has not for the moment adverb 17

of excitement, approval, surprise

interjection Nein is defined as the German word for no Nyet is defined as Russian for no A Russian man’s answer to being asked if he has a light for a cigarette is an example of nyet YourDictionary definition and usage exampl

Да

word – NO

English Translation yes More meanings for да (da) yes particle

Russian is widely believed to be one of the most difficult languages to learn This is mostly true, if you have no knowledge of other Slavic languages (eg Bulgarian or Czech) They might be surprised to know that the Russian alphabet actually takes only about 10 hours to lear

Russian is hard (trudniy), German is heavy (schwer) It depends of course on where you´re starting from: English is a Germanic language (as is German) but it has fewer verb forms, noun genders and hardly any case endings for pronouns and adjectives German has four cases, but Russian has six (and Polish even seven)

The Russian language is dying there If you look globally, the number of Russian speakers decreased by a minimum of 50 million people during the last 20 years This has happened so dramatically and so fast The future of Russian language will be different in different countrie

The scope of duolingo is very limited I think it’s well established that most courses get you to somewhere around A2, B1 at best, which is just enough to be a bit challenging, but not enough to make you able to expand your knowledge on your ow

Syntactically, the order of words is different, but it is still true that Japanese can reasonably read a Chinese text, though won’t be able to pronounce i

No Most Japanese people do NOT speak Korean However, the English language is a required subject in the Japanese secondary education; although English education has not gone very well for Japanese people, in general, most people can understand at least a little bit of English (except, of course, the very old people)

Hanzi and kanji are the Chinese and Japanese pronunciations of the term 漢字 that is used in both languages It refers to the Chinese characters that both languages make use of in their writing systems Chinese is written entirely in hanzi, and Japanese makes heavy use of Chinese characters

As a result, Sino-Japanese vocabulary makes up a large portion of the lexicon of Japanese, and much classical Chinese literature is accessible to Japanese readers in some semblance of the origina

tl;dr, knowing intermediate-advanced Japanese makes learning Mandarin Chinese way easier I can throw in my personal experience here Japanase uses “kanji” (漢字) for roots of nouns and verbs, which it imported from China around 1500 years ago You say kanji are “derived” from Chinese characters

Modern Chinese generally don’t know symbols from ancient Chinese writing, which are shell bone script, and big seal script, which were used more than 3000 years ago The “ancient characters” in second question is same as “ancient Chinese writing”, so the answer for “Could they read ancient characters” is No

Other varieties of Chinese share many characteristics with Mandarin, though have different pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar So for English speakers, Chinese is easier than Japanese from this aspect Chinese grammar is generally considered a lot easier to learn than Japanese

And The Easiest Language To Learn Is…

1. Norwegian This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers
2. Swedish
3. Spanish
4. Dutch
5. Portuguese
6. Indonesian
7. Italian
8. French

The Korean alphabet is much easier than Japanese, but the various levels of speach and address in Korean make it more challenging So, in my opinion this makes Korean slightly more difficult than Japanese The challenge with Japanese is the alphabet(s) and Kanji Really reading Hangul I could only do after a few weeks