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Comment Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual (Score 1) 1077

I'd like to add more colour to that claim. No language is objectively harder to learn than any other language. They're just more or less different than your mother tongue. It depends on the system your mother tongue(s) belong(s) to, the availability of material in the target language in your direct surroundings (including education) and the amount of languages you already know.

For instance, a speaker of Hungarian will pick up Turkish or Finnish much more easily than a speaker of English because of its structural similarities.

Likewise, English is much easier to pick up for speakers of German, Swedish or Dutch. I myself speak 5 languages plus I can read two highly inflectional dead languages (Latin and ancient Greek). This makes my studies in Russian a *lot* easier because my mind is more open and a flexible mould in which I fit the components of language, whatever order they're written in.

Chinese is not a hard language, it's just very different than ours.

Comment Re:I'll upgrade when... (Score 1) 565

Well, when I'm randomly surfing porn I'm not gonna keep track of every site I clicked on and add it to a list as I'm going. Simply because I don't have both hands available for taking notes.

And here's my Open Idea (someone handy implement it): Why not nick Google's "go off the record" idea for GoogleTalk? When you are in off the record mode, none of the sites you surf to will be kept in history (and as soon as you go on the record again, Fx should remove Cache, cookies and other data stored during the off the record episode).

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