# Elixir as the first programming language?

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-as-the-first-programming-language/34319>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** beginner\
**Created:** [September 12, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-as-the-first-programming-language/34319 "2020-09-12T16:36:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-as-the-first-programming-language/34319/10 "2020-09-13T16:38:39Z")

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> [@mudasobwa](#):
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> I am a native Russian speaker, I love Spanish, can English and somewhat German, and currently learning Catalan, but man… When I hear French I cannot tell how to split this babbling brook into words

Probably I should not speak about Russian specifically (I only chose it as an example because of OP) but it’s pretty widely documented that English is one of the more difficult languages to learn. Experiences vary widely among individuals of course, but there are pretty clear patterns speaking statistically, with fairly obvious causes. Surely no one would claim that the difficulty of learning Ruby vs something like Perl is unpredictable?

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