>English Simple, clear, straightforward, no hidden tricks or funky pronunciations. Easy to write and understand, fun colourful accent and language variations >Your language Some overly convoluted mess of weird symbols or bastardised latin script with rough throat growls and lip smacking sounds or it just sounds like word spaghetti No wonder ESLs struggle. It just...doesn't make sense to be so complex and useless. How is German and French so bad compared to English even though they help create the language?
Seriously, I can say in English >I have three bones and a brown dog And then in French its shit like >I am zree bones have and dog brown ????
I'm not sure you're describing English there. I'm actually a bit curious how English ended up so weird, when there are so many languages where letters represent a single sound. Japanese has their kanas, Russian is spelled like it's written, same with Finnish and Baltic languages, Latin languages (apart from French), Dutch, German to a point, but then there's English where "lead" has an I sound even though there is no letter I in the word, or then it could also be "lead" as in "led"
I can't think of any other language where things are as messy as this apart from French and English. Only Chinese and Japanese are worse since they refuse to just use letters
>>I have three bones and a brown dog >>Tengo tres huesos y un perro marrón Kneel retard
Dylan Ross
>no hidden tricks or funky pronunciations funny thats coming from you since your "english" pronunciation is the absolute retard tier pronunciation. It sounds like severe blunt force trauma to head. >MY ENGLISHERINO BUT MUH SLANGS AND SILENT LETTERS AND DIFFERENT PRONUNCIATION OF SAME LETTERS AND MY RETARDED AUSSIE ACCENT
(except if youre a chink, if thats the case then >wa yu du man ken i hav e a juan eggwa plis? )
Hunter Allen
Knowing English as non-native should be considered prerequisite to getting basic employment, or at least one in academia. ESLs whose only L2 is English shouldn't even be considered multilingual.
Luke Sanchez
Now that I think about it, the English are already cursed to begin with. Here is the vowel I, which is pronounced with two vowels. In so many languages you have the basic sounds A, E, I, O, U etc., but then in English even just O will actually be "ou"
>"lead" has an I sound even though there is no letter I in the word What
Brody Ross
>>"lead" has an I sound even though there is no letter I in the word >What Anglo's first contact with actual Latin script. How cute
Hunter Scott
It's not i-ead you moron It's clearly an L
Owen Morris
>It's not i-ead you moron It's clearly an L Imagine being this retarded.
Ryder Fisher
A is "ei" E is "i" I is "ai" O is "ou" For U I suppose "yu" would work the best for Spanish, in Finnish I would use a J there. Still, we speak totally different languages but our concept of those sounds are almost the same