Well, in that example, the "e" isn't purposeless, it tells you to pronounce it "tet" instead of "teh", as well as that its feminine (in most cases, this being one of them).implodingMan said:
Reasons why English is so Hard to Understand (REHU)
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There clearly is, hence it's use in for instance, product branding. It's not used for "normal" writing, but it's understood well enough to use for brand names and some shop/business signs.naftali1 said:
Learning it for a year, albeit some time ago.
you beat me to itRAKtheUndead said:
english is complex because it has the most words in it by far, it has also morphed over the years and changed a lot
look at colour and color. there are odd ones like center (middle of something) and centre (a building like an arena)
also with japanese it depends on who is actually speaking who they are speaking to. so funnily enough a lot of guys who learn japanese from their gf's are actually learning the female version of japanese
ahh...yes and German is great because it combines words instead of making completely ones...Dufferking75 said:That would be one reason I love German. Every word is spelled exactly how it sounds.
English has Anglo-saxon roots, so technically it should be easier than it is...
Dobry Punkt!Kukul said:Dobrze się czujesz?Dkozza said:
Polish is one of the hardest languages in the world. The grammar alone is two times harder than in English not to mention orthography with all the "ó" "ą" "ż" etc.
As for "everything is pronounced as it's spelled" try telling a person speaking English to pronounce "W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie"...
It's all about subject-verb agreement. Whereas most languages have clearly defined rules (like just changing the ending of the main verb), English has bizarre changes that often don't follow any sort of logic.
Are you thinking of Swahili? It's full of clicking, and it's spoken in Eastern Africa.Flap Jack452 said:
I blame the lack of accents. Nice for writing, hard for reading (I would guess, I'm a native English speaker).
"clicking" is a phoneme, not a language.Flap Jack452 said:
A phoneme is a unit of spoken language structure. We are essentially born with all of them built in and "forget" the ones that aren't used around us. Learning a new phoneme is a monumentally difficult thing to do.
Yay, someone else knows linguistics
Japanese is really not that hard. Unless you're reading material JLPT level 2 and up, Kanji usually has furigana/is recognizable, and Hira and Kata are really easy once you learn the alphabet. Chinese is a beyotch, though.
As for English: From my experience working with people, the hardest part usually isn't the basic acquisition: it's refinement. A lot of people I know can piece together a sentence, but have trouble expressing themselves at a semi-fluent level.
Japanese is really not that hard. Unless you're reading material JLPT level 2 and up, Kanji usually has furigana/is recognizable, and Hira and Kata are really easy once you learn the alphabet. Chinese is a beyotch, though.
As for English: From my experience working with people, the hardest part usually isn't the basic acquisition: it's refinement. A lot of people I know can piece together a sentence, but have trouble expressing themselves at a semi-fluent level.
I would say "yes" and go along with it, as though nothing ever happened, but no, not it was not.Anonymouse said:
I'd imagine if you weren't raised learning a language or around the language that it would be particularly difficult. I mean, I'm a born-and-raised bona fide Chicagoan, but I know Spanish like another language because I was taught that too by my Spanish mother.
Also, most languages, especially the Romantic ones, provide conventions(sentence structures, verb formulas) with irregularities and follow formulas while English is pretty dynamic and full of special situations, compared to most other languages, with tons of rules, not to mention homophones.
Homophones that even dick around with people whose first language is English.
Also, most languages, especially the Romantic ones, provide conventions(sentence structures, verb formulas) with irregularities and follow formulas while English is pretty dynamic and full of special situations, compared to most other languages, with tons of rules, not to mention homophones.
Homophones that even dick around with people whose first language is English.
The problem with words like that is that they're based in Latin. I do realize that English is basically the kleptomaniac of the linguistic world though.Dkozza said:
Something that annoys the hell out of me is people not knowing how to use 'their' 'they're' and 'there' properly. They're eating their dinner over there. So many people use there instead of they're and it drives me crazy. Too many people also have trouble with 'you're' and 'your'. Every time I read these misuses I want to punch my monitor, but then I don't because it would be expensive and painful.
English is so messed up because it is a mutated amalgamation of so many other languages it is useless to try and separate all of it out again. It is a mess and it us getting worse every day thanks to America mainly. I guess we can also thank some so called people called "Chavs" in England from what I have been told.