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The kiddie table of languages. Still most Hungarian don't, won't can't learn it.
Latin is the baseline for every Indo-Euro language. If you learnt that, you can all the others easily. It is also very regulated, with all those coniugatios and declinatios. Orderly and formal it seemed.
German was pissing me off with the der die das, and nothing can be do about it just learn it, drill it. Otherwise German isn't a hard language either.
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> language family out competed
I don't think that has anything to do with the difficulty of languages. Every newcomer of ours had no trouble to assimilate into us.
It's about centers of power, and projection of that power and influence.