citrusonic

My cousin Ashley has the same disease...what's more, she underwent an unnecessary and harmful amputation as a toddler due to a misdiagnosis of cancer. When she has all the right in the world to be angry and bitter, she is instead one of the most inspiring and positive people I know; whenever I start to complain about my shitty first world problems, I think of her and I feel like a right bastard for being such a twat.

I really hope this new treatment in clinical trials is effective. You guys deserve a miracle. I don't have any questions for you: just wanted to commend you on your bravery. Good luck, and love to you and yours.

Yep. She used to play a mean trumpet and a good lefty piano too. :)

Yes.

Slovak language is difficult for English speakers because of the lack of shared vocabulary, and certain features that English doesn't have, such as grammatical gender and a rich case system, as well as having many sounds that also don't exist in English, some of which are difficult to tell apart for us. However, there's no such thing as a "most difficult language of all"--each language will vary in difficulty depending on which languages you know already and which is your native language. For a speaker of Czech or Polish, Slovak wouldn't pose too much difficulty, but for a speaker of Japanese, almost any language has huge barriers.

You could make a very similar case for Chinese and English.