+241 You are glad that english was your first language, since it is the most confusing of all languages. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Being bi-lingual I can assure you that English is far from confusing compared to other languages.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also being bilingual, I disagree. I definitely think English is up there in complexity for learning, especially when compared to other languages with Latin alphabets.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree. OP and agreers: don't flatter yourselves. English being the second of four It's easily the easiest I know. There are no fucking conjugations or cases at all! The tree is an it, the table is an it, the cloud is an it. It is, she is, he is, we are, you are, they are, it's all the same. Cases: I see //the tree//. I give a gift to //the tree//. //The tree// is cool. I have the branch of //the tree//. It doesn't change at fucking all. German: Ich sehe //DEM Baum//, Ich gebe ein Geschenk um //DEN Baum//. //DER Baum// ist cool. Ich habe //dem// Ast //DES BaumES//. And that's not even that difficult, it's still all Baum, in Russian it's: Я вижу дереВО, Я даю подарок дереВУ, ДереВО крутое, у меня ветка дереВА. There's 7 more letters in the Russian alphabet than the English, and more than 7 total are completely different sounds (Б, Е, Ё, Ж, Л, Р, У, Ф, Х, Ц, Ч, Ш, Щ, Ь, Ы, Й, Э, Ю, Ъ) In German there's these damn umlauts that change the sound of //already existing// vowels, such as A or U, and add them scattered to completely random words and sometimes even the plurals of words that have the NORMAL l...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I dont think that you can say that german is a hard language because of umlauts. German is the easiest language I know how to speak.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I didn't say that was the sole reason. It was just listing the orthographical reasons, and the umlauts happen to be there. In other words. English = English letters, German = English+Umlauts. And lol how can you know German and English and think German's the easiest? English is basically simplified English.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was nearly stating that of all languages you could pick from to make an argument, German isn't very hard. English is simplified English? Mind elaborating? Lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lol I meant German at the end. English is just German with less rules and different spellings. Like Old English was ¨thou hast¨ and now in Geman it's ¨du hast¨. You were almost stating? What does that even mean? I didn't choose German at random, mind, I was just explaining my argument with the languages I //do// know, which is logical. I can't just say Korean is harder because I've never learnt Korean. I know nothing about it. And German is harder than it looks. If you're "from" Germany, then you learnt it as a first language, yeah? And that makes learning any language in the world seem easy. You try learning it separately. Try to teach someone German in English, and you'll find yourself using the same word a lot. "you are" = du BIST, they are = sie SIND, we are = wir SIND, you all are = ihr SEID, etc for other verbs. In English it's all are are are, but in German it actually changes. There's also the suffixes like MeinER Familie, and BuchER and sometimes JahRE. In English it's all BookS, YearS, HouseS, etc. In German there's different ways just for the plural, not to mention all those cases like nominitive and dative. I learnt both English and German as a foreign langu...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've learnt both English and German as a foreign language, so I'd think I'd know best. Rather than someone who learnt one or the other as a child.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*merely not nearly And I can understand why you might think German is hard but it is basically just a language you need to memorize. Once you have the endings down its incredibly simple. However in English there are a thousand more words and unlike German the spelling is completely random. The grammar is also strange and English has a weird comma system. But I guess how you view this subject depends on the first language that you learned how to speak...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

English, too, is something you memorize. CommoTION, promoTION, cauTION, poTION, etc. It's random at the first word, but after a hundred it's all the same again. You just need to find the patterns and then it's all easy. I'm not saying German is confusing to learn, I'm saying it has more rules to learn than English. In English to learn a new verb you need barely anything. For example: To do. I do, you do, she doES, we do, they do, you all do. I did we did he did she did you did we you all did. I've done you've done she'S done, they've done, we've done, they all have done. It's all the fucking same. In German, ich tuE, du tuST, sie tuT, tun, tut. There's like 4 different ones. In Russian, делаЮ делаЕШ делаЕТ делаЕМ делаЮТ делайТЕ 6 different ones In Spanish, haGO haCES haCE haCEMOS haCEIS haCEN again 6. Do you see what I'm saying? Even if German isn't incredibly difficult, it's more difficult than English.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I gotcha. By the way Russian looks incredibly hard...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep. Я тоже так думаю. Слава богу мне не приходилось учить Русский как иностранный язык. But it does look cool though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah it does. What does that say?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It says I like ice cream.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think I'm learning Spanish faster than I learned English

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've heard that Icelandic is very difficult to learn, because of the tricky pronunciations and spellings, and apparently the grammar is very complicated too. Also, I am learning French, and when it comes to verbs and their different forms, I suddenly realise how complicated it must be to learn English, because in French, there are -er, -ir, and -re verbs that all behave a certain way, along with a few irregular verbs, which are more tricky. It's hard enough remembering all the irregular verbs (there aren't that many) in French, so in English, where pretty much every verb is irregular, it must be a nightmare to learn as a second language.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Come Iearn Afrikaans. We have doubIe negatives that don't change it to possitives.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Please do explain - I am curious!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ExampIe: I don't Iike peas. TransIates to: Ek hou nie(I don't) van ertjies nie (not). So: I don't not Iike peas, but it means that I don't Iike peas. It's one of the parts EngIish peopIe struggIe with.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can see why... So if you were to omit the words that translate to 'not', would the statement have a different meaning?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(dzmax):Nope, but it's not the correct way and it sounds weird when peopIe taIk thay way. There are other things that peopIe say they struggIe with, but that's the main one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

English is the simplest language I've ever seen. Then again, my first language is Greek and I've been learning Ancient Greek for years.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

One thing that makes English hard is that we have so many words that have different meanings (but are the same word), and we also have so many words that mean the same thing. But I don't know if it's the hardest language because the only other languages I've tried learning are German and Spanish.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Every language has that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I say english is high on the list of hardest languages, but it is below most of the languages with completely different characters.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It depends on what your native language is. For those who speak germanic languages, English is pretty easy to learn. It's definitely not 'the most confusing of all languages', though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My first language was Spanish. Its what my parents spoke. But i dont think English is that confusing. i find french a bit difficult. But languages closer to spanish are easier, like portuguese and italian.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

French is very close to Spanish

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not as close as portuguese, imo.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm glad I know English because it's the international language, not because I think it's confusing

by Anonymous 12 years ago

my first language is dutch, and i kinda speak english. but it's definately waaaay easier than french

by Anonymous 12 years ago