If you have English as your mother tongue, it is easier to elarn Germanic languages like Dutch and Germany than it would be to learn Slavi languages like Polish and Russian or Turkic languages like Kazakh and Tartar. ... This sort of misuunderstanding is not uncommon when people from different cultures communicate and can be explained by different rules of usage.
――岩手大学 前期日程/人文社会科学部(2月25日実施)――2006年