Words almost always have the same pronunciation as spelling, grammar has no exceptions once you learn the rules. Why do you think we always learned the same things each year and they were easy as fuck in Turkish (Non-Lit) Class?
which makes speakers of Indo European languages facedesk really quickly.
Turkish through English it really fucks with my head
I mean if I studied Azerbaijani for like a month I'd be pretty much fluent in but that doesn't mean it's the easiest language in the world learn for anyone. When talking about how "easy" Turkish is, I was approaching from a neutral point of view and not an Indo European one. I experienced the inverse of what you're saying but that doesnt stop me from thinking "English and Spanish are incredibly easy."
But there might be other things that're hard in Turkish that I'd obviously have no way of knowing.
There's some. For instance the abnormal disparity between English spelling and pronunciation is known by everyone, even native speakers. (Hell, after being fluent in the language for more than 5 years I just gave up and just write the approximate word sometimes and let the google spell-checker correct it for me.) Also learning Kanji for Japanese is hard for everyone, even Japanese spend years learning them in school.
Yeah, nah. I'm a native English speaker and a semi-competent French speaker and I still think English spelling and pronunciation are broken. You have to be able to spot which language we nicked the word from to have a hope of guessing it. Which works if it was French Greek or German, not so much if it was swiped from Persia or India.
No? I have lots of French friends who pronounce stuff weird in English. For instance some of them pronounce height like weight and when I corrected one of them he was very surprised that the "eight" part would be pronounced differently.
Kanji is easy for Mandarin speakers because Japanese literally adapted their writing system and call it Kanji, but the Chinese themselves had to learn it in school and it was the same difficulty. Compare that to Latin (or Greek, Russian) alphabet and it's obvious Japanese (or Chinese) writing system is objectively harder.
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u/Destruktors Come Visit Wrocław & Kraków Aug 15 '17
They are rapidly developing - 3 most developing cities are located in Turkey.
Language is kinda easy to learn.
Population around twice of Poland.
Very strong army.
Santa Claus was in fact living there :(
Istanbul was once Constantinople, and is a very strategic point because it act as separation for Europe from middle East.
Islamic country.
President is called Erdogan.
I visited country when I was 5yo, but as you can guess I don't remember much..