In German, the letters of the Alphabet are pronounced like this, and can be spelt phonetically as such: A = ah. B = bay. C = tsay.

7 sounds

Ó represents /uʊ/ in Upper Sorbian and represents /ɛ/ or /ɨ/ in, especially, Lower Sorbian.

Most frequently, the /o/ is pronounced as an /ah/, an /uh/ or an actual /o/. If you know the phonetic alphabet, of course, these sounds are written differently.

Most of the time the S in German sounds like Z in English when placed at the beginning of a word followed by a vowel. German has its own phonetic spelling code used to avoid confusion when spelling words on the phone or in radio communication.

The question, why German numbers are “backwards” is naive in many ways. Spoken language was in existence before written language. Many numerals existing today were created long before reading was practised, so if there is any direction in a language at all, German does not “read” “backwards”, it speaks “backwards”.

With plenty of straightforward rules, German is not actually as hard to learn as most people think. And since English and German stem from the same language family, you might actually be surprised at the things you pick up without even trying! And on top of it all, it’s definitely a useful one, too.

English Grammar is easier than German Grammar. English is 50% of Grammar and 50% or vocabulary. Whereas German is 75% Grammar and 25% vocabulary ( which is equally difficult).

Nitty-gritty things like these can make getting started a bit of a challenge – but between the two, French will be a little easier, with (slightly) fewer endings to learn. That said, experts largely agree that the more German you learn, the easier it gets, while French gets more complicated the deeper you dive in.

Icelandic is a rather archaic language. It kept its old noun declension (arguably the hardest part) and verb conjugations. Its archaic vocabulary and complex grammar make it a very difficult language to learn. Icelandic also has four different cases that make it challenging for an English-speaker to learn.

Languages with Simple Grammar Rules

• 1) Esperanto. It is the widely-spoken artificial language in the world.
• 2) Mandarin Chinese. You did not see this one coming, right?
• 3) Malay.
• 4) Afrikaans.
• 5) French.
• 6) Haitian Creole.
• 7) Tagalog.
• 8) Spanish.