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From: Marija
Date: 10/21/03
Time: 12:54:39 PM
Remote Name: 195.29.99.23
Dear dawn, thanks for this question! Native language in Croatia is called Croatian (kro-ey-shen) and is in the same pot with Serbian and Bosnian. Some time ago there was a country named Yugoslavia and then those language were synthezized in one name: Serbo-Croatian. But enough about the history! :o)
I did have secnd languages in scholl, moreoover I had two. I started learning both English and French in my 4th grade of grammar school. In high school I hae English and Italian. Smehow I've always found it the hardest to speak fluently in French - although I consider it a beautiful language. I hear your question - why. I think because of the way the words are stressed, the melody of the language has "beaucoup" of up-down, up-down, stress-don't stress. It seems not to be as flowing as English, even Italian is less flowing but then again easier-going than French. German I find to be pretty hard for pronunciation too, those kilometer-binding words are not an stutterer's dream!
My native language isn't easy either. It has a lot of "tr" combinations at the beginning of words (trgovina=store, trznica=market place, tri=three, traziti=to look for etc.) which makes my tongue roll through my teeth out of my mouth a lot! :o)))
So this is my top-list of "the easiest languages": 1.English, 2.Italian, 3.Croatian, 4.French, 5.German.
Those are the ones I'm familiar with. Of course, put me on the spot and I'll probably get stuck in every language. This is how I FEEL them.