Since English is not derived from Latin, and has a very different grammatical structure, this is not a helpful model. Image provided by author. Where Latin nouns have different endings for these various cases, English makes no distinction between the nominative, accusative, dative, vocative, and ablative cases.

About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent.

Actually, it has neither Latin nor Greek origins. English is a Germanic language from a completely different branch of the Indo-European language family. That being said, Britain was invaded by French-speaking Normans in 1066 and English ended up borrowing a huge amount of French vocabulary.

Studying Latin, with its highly organized grammar, makes us coordinate ideas, reflect on the various ways to say the same thing, and thus to write and speak better in English. Latin provides a key to the Romance languages, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese etc.

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Less Crime,More safety – Japan’s crime rate is very less than South Korea. Japan’s crime rate is about 13.01 while South korea is at 35.94. Japan is most peaceful country in the world. Japan’s Safety index is 86.99 whereas Korea is at 66.

Although Korean might be ranked as one of the more difficult languages to learn by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), it is by no means impossible. So don’t worry about the “hours” it takes to learn Korean. You can learn Korean fast — and you may even already know more Korean than you think! All it takes is 90 days.

How long does it take to become fluent in Korean? It will take about 1200 hours to reach a high intermediate level. You’re going to need additional practice, so you may want to double that number to 2400 hours to get towards fluency. That would be about 23 hours of study per week for 2 years.

If Russian is your L2 (2nd language learnt), it is fairly possible to get to a near native level. Korean imo is easier. It is pronounced a bit more regularly than Russian, it is easier to remember words because they are in syllable blocks.

Urdu is an amalgam of a few languages including Old Hindi, Farsi and Arabic. This makes its grammar hard to grasp as there are a few different grammatical rules based on what language the word is derived from.

Spoken Russian is much harder to learn than Spoken Japanese. Because Russian is hardly synthetic, has a lot of conjugations. Written Russian is much simpler to learn than Written Japanese.

Russian has cases and moods and motion verbs and gender and much more that is hard for a native speaker of English. So to learn the new words it is about the same. To pronounce the words Japanese is easier. To use them grammatically Japanese is also much easier.

Russian is widely believed to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. The need to learn the Russian alphabet serves as yet another obstacle for many people who would like to learn the language. They might be surprised to know that the Russian alphabet actually takes only about 10 hours to learn.

It came from the Greek letter “Η” (called Eta) but the horizontal stroke was turned counter-clockwise resulting in the “И” letter. “N” in our alphabet came from another Greek letter, “N” (called “Nu”) which interestingly has the lower-case form “ν”. “Я” has nothing to do with “R”.

It can be hard to find formal Russian courses in some regions. This means that, for some people, if you want to learn Russian, learning by yourself is your only real option. Even if you want to take a formal course down the road, learning basic Russian on your own can help prepare you for success in formal courses.