Quote Originally Posted by Rowan View Post
This is apparantly why english is one of the hardest languages to learn. It makes no sense. And we pronounce the same letters differently depending on the word as well as having 10 different words that literally mean the same thing.
Actually, English is pretty easy to learn. I'm currently trying ("trying"... I mean really, I'm not doing much) to learn Russian because my boyfriend's family immigrated from Russia - I haven't understood much yet. Plus, I don't really get the alphabet they use. And have you ever learned French? If you want to speak French, you have to know if the sun is masculine or feminine |D Seriously, I can't remember. (I think the moon was masculine, while the sun was feminine.) English just has "the" as an article, while in French you have two: "le" (masculine), "la" (feminine).
And don't you EVER try to learn German: there are THREE articles: "der" (masculine), "die" (feminine) and "das" (neuter). German Articles, everyone! And seriously, I won't start explaining all the cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive). Even native speakers don't know how to use them properly


English really is simple to learn. S-P-O, "a"/"an" and "the"... everything's so hilariously easy compared to other languages |D
But that's why I love the English language. It's easy to learn the grammar.
Still, I agree that the pronunciation is weird, and I still don't get the vowel shift completely - Middle English was pretty easy to read/pronounce. (Must be because it's very similar to German. )