On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 21:21:32 +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > On 3/23/21 5:51 PM, Viktor Vogel wrote: > > An observation from a native English speaker - > > > > I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly > > good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it > > much more difficult than Chinese. > > > > Chinese has different sounds, and tones that need to be mastered, but > > the grammar is dead simple. > > > > Russian also has different sounds, and the grammar is incredibly > > complex, baroque and inconsistent. > > - wonder if someone has observations on learning Modern Greek ?
Gerunds are somewhat more difficult than in Ancient Greek. Apart from that, most modern Greeks seem to cope with them. -- Brian.
