English very hard language

FeuerFrei

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Watch the news. Newscasters have to speak clearly and pronounce properly.
 

Chaotic42

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The preponderance of non-native elocutionists necessitates that we eschew esoteric verbosity.
 

repoman0

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What is your native language? I'd guess German but it's spelled wrong in your handle ...
 

Imp

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The inevitable result of taking a Germanic language and cramming lots of latin onto it.

Latin can go eff itself... Seriously, gendered nouns? My French is shit and not memorizing if all the nouns are male or female is partly to blame. At least Spanish helps you usually by ending in -a or -o.

You also wouldn't have a million nouns/adjectives become verbs like in English. Someone would have to decide if the new verb has an er, re, ir, or whatever ending then conjugate it 50 ways...
 

sdifox

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Latin can go eff itself... Seriously, gendered nouns? My French is shit and not memorizing if all the nouns are male or female is partly to blame. At least Spanish helps you usually by ending in -a or -o.

You also wouldn't have a million nouns/adjectives become verbs like in English. Someone would have to decide if the new verb has an er, re, ir, or whatever ending then conjugate it 50 ways...


Thyne failure to learn French does not constitute failure ony the part of the French Language itself, rather it is rooted in your learning a shitty language called English first.
 
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Mai72

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Watch Trump speak. :)

You'll then be a big thinker and speaker.

"I'm great!"
"It's gonna be great."
"I'm amazing."
"We are going to build a yugggge wall "
 

Mai72

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i tired of study but probably i never learn english i watch movie and nothing understood

*How long have you been learning English?
*Do you live in a country where English is the native language?

The best way to learn any language is thru immersion. Get out there and meet as many English speaking people you can. That's important. Also, make mistakes. That's how you learn. And, get out of your comfort zone. Watching a movie is good, but it's pretty much useless unless you are actually talking to native born speakers.

Use Skype to speak to native born speakers. Technology is a wonderful tool. Use it.
 

Red Squirrel

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I found English a bit hard in school when we learned it, but I imagine any language is hard at first. English is probably one of the easier ones to learn though. The part of English that still weirds me out to this day though is how some stuff is pronounced, it's totally not how I expect it to be. There's lot of words that don't tend to come up in speech but when they do and someone corrects me it always weirds me out to know that I've been thinking about it wrong all that time.

Like Orion. I don't remember why or how that came up in a conversation, but who would have thought it was pronounced Oh Ryan. I totally had it wrong in my head.
 

werepossum

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I found English a bit hard in school when we learned it, but I imagine any language is hard at first. English is probably one of the easier ones to learn though. The part of English that still weirds me out to this day though is how some stuff is pronounced, it's totally not how I expect it to be. There's lot of words that don't tend to come up in speech but when they do and someone corrects me it always weirds me out to know that I've been thinking about it wrong all that time.

Like Orion. I don't remember why or how that came up in a conversation, but who would have thought it was pronounced Oh Ryan. I totally had it wrong in my head.
We have a lot of borrowed words. And if you mispronounce something in English, there's probably some group somewhere who pronounces it just like that.
 

werepossum

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Its alright you sound just like our new president, you'll fit in just fine.
lol +1

For someone just starting out and saying he'll never learn English, it's funny how well the OP got his message across.
 

OverVolt

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"Whassuppppp" "whaaaasssaaaaaaaaaaaapppppppppp"

How's it going bro?

or if you're learning english on tinder, its generally an average of 3 texts until "can i sex you in the bed" comes up.