tough English

**kismet** · Subject: Re: tough English Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:20 pm

Jesus wrote:

kismet wrote:

English is hard. I'm from the USA and after learning French and Spanish, it's very different.

English is a collection of more than just a few languages though; we've bastardized many words to fit into English, including many French, German and Spanish words. It's Germanic based with some Romance languages thrown in.

However, we have many in the US that have their own forms of language. Creole, Gullah just to name a couple. Those have strong French ties and nothing like French/English at all. Creole has some spanish ties as well.

Knowing English doesn't mean you can understand those though. It took me years to understand spoken Gullah and I still have problems reading it, even though I have YEARS of French under my belt.

To English speakers, it's just straight and everything else is backwards. To everyone else, we're the ones that are backwards.
Rio Grande (river big) is to us Big River (backwards!)
Same with french, you have to think backwards.

Everyone I know who has been learning English all complain about it. The verbage is difficult. Are/Is We are, you are, he is, she is, it is, etc. No different from aller really but something gets lost in the translation I guess.

I actually learned english by myself by noticing reactions and context in which words we're used listening to tv in english, i was speaking fluently with no accent at the age of 8, so i don't really think english is a complicated language.

Learning a new language is easier for children. As an adult or in your later teens, a new language is much more difficult. Rosetta Stone! :p I haven't tried that method yet, but I've considered it; not for English, I speak that quite well, but more for a couple of other languages. My french isn't bad, more written than spoken, but I can get along passably in France Smile

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**MightyObserver** · Subject: Re: tough English Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:52 pm

Jesus wrote:

I actually learned english by myself by noticing reactions and context in which words we're used listening to tv in english, i was speaking fluently with no accent at the age of 8, so i don't really think english is a complicated language.

If you learned it by the time you were eight then of course you don't think it's a hard language. It's much easier to learn these sorts of things in such early stages of development. I am nowhere near fluent in any language other than English but acknowledge that it is a hard language for many people (and why that is, to a certain extent).

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**Liche** · Subject: Re: tough English Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:51 am

tough English:

THE NOSE KNOWS BEST!

**CoolKidX** · Subject: Re: tough English Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:50 pm

Lol that one was good, sehr gut.

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unique07 · Tourist Posts: 1 Join date: 2009-09-07

I think learn english language is tough but its not hard to learn. I we give some time for english then we will easily learn it. We need full concentration for learn it. There are many courses available for english learning.