> It is not a language in general that is difficult, but the pair a language is
> in: the pair English-Russian is, in some aspects, more difficult than the
> other way around because of the choice for the perfective aspect or
> imperfective aspect of the tenses. An English text does not offer any clues
> as to which aspect to choose, but anyone who wants to speaks Russian has to
> decide instantly. A program is unlikely do that.
I'm sorry, but that's pure speculation. It would be interesting to
see research about machine translation for some particular language
pairs, though.
Arthur
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