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Old 07-23-2017, 08:03 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by jacobmuller View Post
Then I find this article (US foreign service?) rating languages by complexity...
It's worth keeping in mind that such ratings deal with relative difficulty for speakers of a specific native language, and aren't a rating of some absolute level of difficulty. US Foreign Service language difficulty ratings, for example, refer to only time requirements for a native English speaker.

Which doesn't mean you need to change what you're working with, I believe. You can go ahead and set things up from the native-English perspective, then change things around for native speakers of other languages: native speakers of Polish and Russian would find each other's languages Easy; likewise with Korean and Japanese, etc.

Anyway, a separate question: If other human languages can be as difficult as Very Hard, how about an alien language that's really different? Any way to squeeze that into the concept?
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