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Finally, the author gives us his thought on the notion of complexity of a language. He writes about the work of linguists who have tried to classify languages according to their difficulty. Thus, M. Parkvall ranked 155 languages; Burushaski was the most complex language, while English was in position 78^e and Hebrew in position 37^e. He lets the reader make their opinion about this ranking. Nicolas Tournadre classifies learning difficulties into several categories that he describes largely: phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical difficulties and difficulties related to the writing system. In order to assess the learning difficulty of language A for a speaker of language B, it is also necessary to take into account the degree of linguistic kinship between the two languages and the degree of kinship between two languages within a language macrofamily. For this reason, learning Persian for a French speaker, and even more so for a Russian speaker, will be much easier than learning Basque.