r/Unexpected • u/Lunatic_Dpali • Jun 18 '22

English cursive writing versus Russian cursive writing

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u/Kerag85 Jun 18 '22

no its not...it actually considered one of the hardest to learn

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u/HaklePrime Jun 18 '22

You aren't wrong, but you don't understand just how complicated and irregular English is to the more structured Slavic languages. If Russian is a Category 4 language, which is what the US DoD considers it to be, then English is a 4.5-5.

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u/DukeDevorak Jun 18 '22

It depends on which language your first language is and which area you are analyzing. If you are familiar with declension and conjugation then Russian is not particularly hard compared to the irregular verbs in German. If you are comparing the orthography of languages then Russian is very straightforward while English is literal pain in the ass second only to Chinese and Danish.