First of all: I'm not a native english speaker. In fact, I don't even have the opportunity to use english in any other circumstance than reading / writing stuff on the internet. My native language is german.
Even I see all of those mistakes people make when they write a forum post / comment / whatever.
To be honest, I don't know anything about grammar. I always had some kind of talent when it came to learning foreign languages.
But while reading this thread, I was surprised to read that some people really seem to think learning english was harder then learning german.
Of course, it's my native language, so I just grew up with it and had any problems at all. But seeing that we have three different articles and which to use has to look entirely random from a foreigners perspective, that's hard to believe somehow.
For example, in english its: the dog, the door, the car. In german its: der Hund, die Tür, das Auto. "der" is the article for a male word, "die" (speak: dee) is for female words and "das" is for words without gender. But why is the dog male, why the door female and why the car neither?
The Glue, the remote control, the window - der Kleber, die Fernbedienung, das Fenster. Same thing. It just doesn't make any sense. And some of you really think, german is easier to learn? In my whole life I met about 2 foreigners who correctly spoke german without steadily confusing something. My guess is, you native english speakers meet a lot of people who didn't grow up with this language and use it flawlessly.
No offense, and I also don't want to fuel something weird like a "my language is harder than yours"-battle, but it's hard to believe for me.
Even I see all of those mistakes people make when they write a forum post / comment / whatever.
To be honest, I don't know anything about grammar. I always had some kind of talent when it came to learning foreign languages.
But while reading this thread, I was surprised to read that some people really seem to think learning english was harder then learning german.
Of course, it's my native language, so I just grew up with it and had any problems at all. But seeing that we have three different articles and which to use has to look entirely random from a foreigners perspective, that's hard to believe somehow.
For example, in english its: the dog, the door, the car. In german its: der Hund, die Tür, das Auto. "der" is the article for a male word, "die" (speak: dee) is for female words and "das" is for words without gender. But why is the dog male, why the door female and why the car neither?
The Glue, the remote control, the window - der Kleber, die Fernbedienung, das Fenster. Same thing. It just doesn't make any sense. And some of you really think, german is easier to learn? In my whole life I met about 2 foreigners who correctly spoke german without steadily confusing something. My guess is, you native english speakers meet a lot of people who didn't grow up with this language and use it flawlessly.
No offense, and I also don't want to fuel something weird like a "my language is harder than yours"-battle, but it's hard to believe for me.