... the circle shape of wedding rings represented eternity for the Egyptian. Wearing a wedding ring symbolize the marriage agreement. They placed the wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand believing the left hand was directly connected to the heart. The Greeks also believed in this wedding ring tradition thus perpetuating the practice.

However, Elizabethans wore wedding rings on their thumbs. During the Eighteenth century Roman Catholics wore wedding rings on their right hands. Many European women still follow the Roman Catholic wedding ring tradition. The circle shape of the wedding ring represents eternity whether it is worn on the right or left hand.

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What language is the hardest and easiest to learn?

There are several criteria:
1.- Strangeness: it depends on what you already know
2.- Grammar difficulties: Polish (it has 7 genders, 3 number, 6 declension cases, and very irregular verbs)
3.- writing system: Japanese (every character can have up to 7 readings, Mandarin instead one character 1 reading)
4.- speaking difficulties: Korean (it has over 7 honorific levels, every one with different verbs endings)


From the point of view of an English speaker, world languages can be separated into three categories, depending on how many hours it would take to study it for minimal proficiency:
Category 1. The “easiest” languages for speakers of English, requiring 600 hours of classwork for minimal proficiency: the Latin and Germanic languages. However, German itself requires a bit more time, 750 hours, because of its complex grammar.
Category 2. Medium, requiring 1100 hours of classwork: Slavic languages, Turkic languages, other Indo-Europeans such as Persian and Hindi, and some non-Indo-Europeans such as Georgian, Hebrew and many African languages. Swahili is ranked easier than the rest, at 900 hours.
Category 3. Difficult, requiring 2200 hours of study: Arabic, Japanese, Korean and the Chinese languages.


However, the most important factor of all is personal motivation. This is up to you. The easiest language to learn is the one that you are most motivated to learn, the one you enjoy speaking, the one with the culture that inspires you and the history that touches you spiritually. It is useless to try to learn a language if you are not interested in the people who speak it, since learning a language involves participating in its behaviors and identifying with its people.

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If you stretch out your arms, the distance from fingertips of one hand to the other is the same as your height.

Also, the distance from your wrist to your inner elbow is the same as your foot.

There is a rumour that for men, the distance between the thumb and the first finger of his hand is the same as.....ermm... but I am not sure if that one is true