i know how to speak canto and english and used to be able to speak french aswell but i forgot it all after a week after my exams lol but i feel its easier to learn a language which you use all the time and you can use to over people ^^
I dont think there's really much difference on which language would be easier to learn. I think it has to do more with the fact at what age you were trying to learn them at. When i was in grade 1, i had no problem with my cantonese, then moved to canada and was too lazy to attend saturday classes. Ended up being fluent in english and french whereas my native language chinese, i cant read nor write. -mellow
i learned chinese since i was born. then learned english in grade 2. Started to learn french in grade 5. gradually learned mandarin as i went to a mandarin church
@wind2000: aww :( i grew up always watching the latest tvb series and going to chinese school although after quitting (a total of 5 years of chinese school) i've basically forgotten most of the writing i've learned. i wish i could have learned/been influenced by english, cantonese and mandarin as i was growing up. do you think some people don't ever master english grammar if a native speaker of some other language?
@ CN, mastering the english grammar would not pose as problem cuz reading books will do the job (at least it did for me). Its the pronunciation or accent (as some calls it) that might pause as problem.
of course... bet you learned french first lol thats why yea.. like in bon cop bad cop where the police chief said Hoppertunity instead of opportunity lmao to me it is.... since all of my languages are alphabet based, i think vietnameseis the hardest out of the three.
@dann: That's why I think for an Asian, learning the culturally native (be it Japanese, Korean, Viet, Thai, M'sian, Cantonese, Mandarin etc) tongue FIRST always has its advantage: since MOST Asian languages do not quite have a alphabet (unlike romanic languages), it is the hardest to learn... So learning that first really helps... And with French, you end up learning about the gender and such (yes, to an English native speaker the gender thing and conjugation ARE difficult) Unfortunately, I learn Cantonese>Mandarin>English>French...
