english is just so easy, there's nothing you can say to convince me of the contrary. I have had contact with lots of languages and I know how easy english is compared to most of them.
btw a really factual and detailed post you did there rishwin.
english is just so easy, there's nothing you can say to convince me of the contrary. I have had contact with lots of languages and I know how easy english is compared to most of them.
btw a really factual and detailed post you did there rishwin.
Rish, I must agree with MuRdOc. If you think English is hard to learn, you wont be able to learn any language. It's so easy and there's less grammar than any other languages, so that sentence was extremely nonsense.Originally Posted by Rishwin
Again, this one talks for you, if you are used to eastern languages/arabic and asian, no wonder it's hard to learn when you're not used to the latin letters. But for a european, it couldn't get easier.
well what sounds more strange Russian or mandarin(or w/e the hell it's called..) ? all eastern languages are hard cuz pronaunciation is important there, and hard. while in russian/english/some baltic countries languages you ussually can't pronounce it wrong,you might say it with a wierd accent though ... (like in stupid hollywood movies...)
some south african language for an international language would be cool though :D those click sounds they have are fun xD
Last edited by Neculin; 26-09-06 at 07:01 PM.
o.O Then can you explain why my english teacher starts yelling at me every time i have to read out loud?:smile_1: and yeah, the Russian in hollywood movies always makes me laugh.
Totally agreed on the African language part =)
Last edited by londoahv; 26-09-06 at 06:36 PM.
you ppl been watching too many africans in south park :D j/k
I plan on learning mandarim, some day.
Marklar, marklar the marklar of the marklar.
Marklar, a marklar like Marlkar may be marklar to marklar, but that's only because marklar don't have the marklar to marklar the marklar.
It's all a marklar of marklar, marklar?
Marklar,
1. read dtb's post.
2. you are not comparing english to all the languages are you? no, you are comparing it to european languages. and let me remind you, there are more asian/arabic/watever languages than there are european, and european languages use english letters, whereelse other dont.
Last edited by Rishwin; 27-09-06 at 02:12 AM.
o.O since when are they english letters? i knoew the russians called them "German letters" during WW2, but never before had i heard them to be english letters.
And Rishwin, if you have to learn the language from 0, of course its harder. That doesnt mean the language is hard. In my language, you can change one verb into 20+ forms, whilst in english, as was pointed out, its like 2-5 max(i dont know what the technical term of the change form is, since in english, it just DOESNT EXIST. But i believe to a russian studying english is a lot easier to try to teach an english(by which i mean someone whose main language is english) some russian (for example)
Ive read that 300 million chinese people speak English. More Chinese speak English then Americans.
There are also more chinese people than americans.
It's not english but latin letters.
if English wasn
well if scandinavian was the international language then loads of people will have brain tumours for fun ;)
There's no honour without a u, that's why Americans English should be altered to Englands English >_>
i prefer american english's accent better than the british one.
they speak "american" cos they also have different spellings for words so technically its a different language (like malay and indonesian - essentially the same, but with minor tweaks)
No fucking shit. 1.3+ billion compared to 300 million.
i know, my english teachers never get tired of doing that little red line over the word "center"
Lol i would argue that German is the language of Buinsess.
Although seems morally english is the most spoken language north boarders and UN etc.
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