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Which language is the easiest

02.01.2002

Despite its prevalence in the world as a language of international communication and the idea that it is the easiest to learn, English is the most difficult of the European languages.

In any case, it is the most difficult to learn to read on it. Children of other nations learn the basics of literacy in an average year, and little Englishmen need two and a half years for this. This conclusion was reached after an extensive study by the English philologist Philip Seymour, who compared teaching children to read in 15 European countries.

It turned out that children from countries with Romance languages (France, Italy) achieve rapid progress, while it is more difficult to learn to read in the languages of the Germanic group (German, English). English literacy is especially difficult to master. And in English-speaking countries, there are more children suffering from dyslexia - difficulty in understanding written text.

The complexity of English lies in the fact that the same letters are pronounced differently in different cases, in different words. The easiest of the European languages, according to Seymour, is Finnish. On it, the sound of all letters is always the same - as it is heard, it is written. Although its grammar is much more complicated than English - there are 15 cases alone.

According to English philologists, the great prevalence of English is explained not by its imaginary ease, but by historical accident. It so happened that the English-speaking countries have been the most successful in politics, economics and science over the past one and a half to two centuries, and therefore the language has become widespread, English linguists say.

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