What is the best language to learn next after French language?
OK, everyone is a bit wrong. 1 - the most spoken languages are: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English. And 2 - French is nothing like Arabic, some French words derive from Arabic, however and some French is spoken in Arabic countries. I'd either go with Spanish because it's similar to French and opens up most of South America and some Asian counties for you to use it in as well as Spain (compared to French which isn't as widely spoken) or for something a bit trickier but certainly worth it - Mandarin Chinese. It's not too hard, quite fun and will certainly be useful in the future.
Which language is the most difficult for people to learn?
That depends on the language(s) you know. Languages closer to the language you know would be easier than those that are most distant to your language. For example, if you only know Hindi, then Bengali would be relatively easy for you to learn (both are of Indic origin). On the other hand, learning English (which is of Germanic origin) would be difficult. Keep in mind that Hindi, Bengali, and English are still part of the same family tree (Indo-European). Here is the Indo-European Language Family Tree: Now, if you have to learn Hebrew, which is part of a completely different family tree (Afro-asiatic), then that'll be a lot more difficult than learning English.There are many family trees --> Browse by Language Family.If you only know English, the US State Department has ranked languages that you can learn based on the estimated number of hours you have to spend to learn the target language: Language Difficulty RankingAlso, you may check out an interesting paper on this subject: Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages: http://ftp.iza.org/dp1246.pdf.
Which Romance language is least similar to Latin?
In terms of vocabulary at least, I think Romanian has strayed the furthest, considered it's surrounded by Eastern/Slavic Bloc countries.
How do people in Switzerland learn three languages?
Switzerland actually has four official national languages (in order of the number of speakers):- (Swiss-) German- French- Italian- Romansch (spoken in Regions of the Grisons)English is a language learned at school because you pretty much can't do international business without it nowadays. And if you're in IT, then you'll have to learn English because most handbooks are in English.The reality is that kids start learning one foreign language in primary school, often along with English. They may learn a second later on. But the level of speaking skill is usually very low once people leave school. French Swiss make a point of not being able to speak German. They prefer English. The Swiss Germans pretend they can't speak French and when forced to do so often speak in an appalling accent, jokingly called "Français Federal" which uses heavy-handed German intonation and manages to thoroughly mangle French. Neither Swiss Germans nor Swiss French speak Italian widely. The Swiss Italians take German at school but are generally hopeless at actually speaking it. No-one learns Romansch at school unless you live in a Romansch-speaking region in the Grisons.So it looks great on paper, but the reality is that not most Swiss aren't brilliant polyglots. They speak their language, usually pretty good English, and a smattering of another national language.Often English is used as a lingua franca.
How hard is it to learn Romansch?
The difficulty in learning Romansch is not so much the inherent difficulty of the language. In fact, as a language it is no more difficult for an English speaker than French or Italian, to both of which it is related.One thing that makes it more difficult than related major languages is the lack of learning materials, classes, and opportunities to use Romansch. Another serious difficulty is that, while there is an official “standard” form of Romansch, nobody actually speaks that standard form except perhaps for news announcers. What is actually spoken is a group of dialects, each with its own pronunciation, its own special vocabulary, and its own grammatical variations. If you learn “standard” Romansch, your speech will sound stilted and kind of phony to native speakers, and you may have difficulty understanding native speakers speaking their dialect.To become proficient, you really need speaking opportunities, and that would mean learning one of the Romansch dialects. Perhaps the only way to do that would be to move to a Romansch-speaking village, preferably living with a family, for at least a couple of years.
What language do people speak in Switzerland?
In the German Part of Switzerland people speak Schwytzerdütsch, with variations from region to region. The language is difficult to learn unless it is your Mothertongue. There is literature and today it is widely used on the Internet for texting, but it is basically a spoken language without grammar rules and varies greatly from canton to canton. Since this is confusing every child entering school is immediately taught German as a foreign language. Later French is added and today most school teach English at a young age. Previously it was more important to learn the languages of the country but not so much today.In the French Part of Switzerland , the region known as Suisse Romande French is spoken. Again with variations which are fondly referred to as „Français Federal“.In the Ticino, a region South of the Alps people speak Italian.ln the far Southeastern mountains the language is Romansch Ladin. The two main valleys of the Rhine and the Inn rivers divide the language into two different dialects.Officially Switzerland has 4 languages.
Do most people in Switzerland speak all three languages: French, German and Italian?
No, most people in Switzerland don’t speak all three of these languages, unless you were to count knowing only a very small bit of some of them.Mastery of German is more common than of French, and Italian is even less so. Then there are other languages, the official language Romansh, and a number of other minority languages. Serbo-croatian, Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Turkish are actually more common than Romansch, and the prevalence of all these languages has been increasing.The languages that people speak vary a lot regionally. This article explains in more depth, citing this source of Switzerland’s official data. With German, it’s more complex too, because, as this article explains, Swiss German, spoken as a native language by a majority of Swiss citizens, is relatively unintelligible to speakers of standard German…so it’s almost like a different language, not just a dialect.In practice though, most people whose native language is Swiss German will also speak or at least be able to undestand standard high German because it is taught in school and they are widely exposed to media in the language.According to Switzerland’s own statistics, the most common second languages in the country are actually English and Portuguese. So…most people are not going to know all of the three languages you mention. What you will find instead is different regions in which people, respectively, speak German (mostly Swiss German), French, and Italian as native languages. More people will learn German as a second language than French or Italian, but even there, the main second languages are not any of these three…people are probably going to have some familiarity with these languages but not be anywhere near fluent.