Arabic: let's get rid of all our vowels, f*ck up your understanding of grammar, and we'll give you tons of words you'll never be able to explain in English.
Korean: spend about an hour learning the alphabet cause it's easy and feel like a pro after you can read it, but go back to feeling confused when you can't understand what you read. also, good luck using kdramas to learn the language.
It is when you're born into an English speaking country, but there are so many rules that contradict themselves
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I'm born in France the country known for its people not understanding a shit of english ahah.
Honestly, I learned english just by watching tv shows mostly.
It's fairly simple in my opinion
I'm Russian, and tbh all it took me was computer games and living in an English speaking country for like a year or two. English is rather easy, I must say, even compared to something like Spanish, which I'm currently studying
But I think that's only because we learnt it as a first language or as a second during critical periods. I find French hard myself, but I think English has more irregularities. Other languages may have more complex grammar though, and concepts that don't exist in the present English language.
I'm from Spain, so it's a second language, but yes, I was learning it since i was 10 or so at an academy (the english classes at school are since age 6/7 in Spain but in my school they were a bit weak), so, thinking about it I may have had resources that made it easier for me :)
No not at all. I didn't even care about it until I had to switch a subject, and even though I was a few weeks late to class, I was better than the others (alongside this French girl who learned Spanish in France) and continued to do it at A Level. Learning all verb tenses wasn't that hard, it was just the use of the subjunctive that challenged me (I didn't know when to use it) and I hardly use the gerund because I'm not sure if it's supposed to be used frequently
Great :)
we are told that Spanish verbs are difficult to learn for foreigners and i was curious.
The gerund It's quite common, but if you make mistakes with that, you don't really have to worry, the majority of the people won't care at all
Islandic is basically old norse. Norwegians settled there when old norse was spoken, and it just stayed. Some things have changed ofc, but not too much.
Somewhat, but more like Norwegian, since they settled it. Well, older Norwegian. Because Denmark took over and bokmål was born, which is Danish changed to sound more Norwegian, and then they created nynorsk which is what it would have sounded like if Denmark hadn't taken over, so it's rather complicated.
Icelandic isn't too bad if you have studied old norse like me, but I cannot speak for everyone.
In Spanish we have so many verb tenses but each one is used for every person (1st, 2nd and so on) and then if I've tense is wrong the whole phrase might not get understood; but pronunciation is easy because we pronounce each letter except h
rendőrség because
Rend means order
őr means guardian
ség means an organisation of something
Rendőrség=guardians of order organisation
Badass isn't it
now tell me where is the logic in police?
trust me it's hell
at this moment I think we are aliens or something
Korean: spend about an hour learning the alphabet cause it's easy and feel like a pro after you can read it, but go back to feeling confused when you can't understand what you read. also, good luck using kdramas to learn the language.
Honestly, I learned english just by watching tv shows mostly.
It's fairly simple in my opinion
For me, French was hell
we are told that Spanish verbs are difficult to learn for foreigners and i was curious.
The gerund It's quite common, but if you make mistakes with that, you don't really have to worry, the majority of the people won't care at all
Icelandic isn't too bad if you have studied old norse like me, but I cannot speak for everyone.
Rend means order
őr means guardian
ség means an organisation of something
Rendőrség=guardians of order organisation
Badass isn't it
now tell me where is the logic in police?
you see
Hungarian isn't that bad
you just need to know a lot of words
and a lots of grammar