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Author:  GhostPony750 [ Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Foreign Languages

French sounds very weird, I agree. Mostly when you don't understand it.
BUT: French is much more delicate and precise than English, honestly. But it is also harder to learn.
English is also faster and easier to learn and write.
If you don't like it, I understand, but I prefer French. ;)

Author:  DNA [ Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Foreign Languages

That image was absolutely beautiful.

I personally think French is a beautiful language; I just don't have any interest in learning it because all the silent letters and remembering all those odd rules is a bit too complicated for me. Getting the hang of English grammar was hard enough.

Author:  Patchy [ Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Foreign Languages

I've heard English is actually one of the hardest languages to learn. I found French easy, but I love it so I guess that helps. :P
The silent letters aren't confusing really, you get used to it, in the same way you'd see "knee" and never think "k-nee". I don't know what you mean by complex rules either, DNA, it's just like English!

I'm dying to learn German but I'm too afraid to try it in college in case it's too hard, ugh...but I don't really want to speak Spanish. But I don't not want to, it's just my order of preference is French -> German -> Spanish.

Author:  DNA [ Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Foreign Languages

The snags to English are mostly the grammatical bits and those weird exceptions, like plurals and how I-before-E-except-after-C doesn't actually apply. I believe one of the trickiest bits is figuring out which pronouns are singular and which are plural - for example, 'all' is plural but 'each' is singular. I find myself constantly referring back to my high school grammar textbook.

Silent letters in English actually do make sense, except in the words "colonel" and "Wednesday".

Author:  Patchy [ Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Foreign Languages

DNA wrote:
The snags to English are mostly the grammatical bits and those weird exceptions, like plurals and how I-before-E-except-after-C doesn't actually apply. I believe one of the trickiest bits is figuring out which pronouns are singular and which are plural - for example, 'all' is plural but 'each' is singular. I find myself constantly referring back to my high school grammar textbook.

Silent letters in English actually do make sense, except in the words "colonel" and "Wednesday".

I doubt we're the only language with odd plurals though, like French's al -> aux. I mean, English doesn't even have a future tense technically, so its a bit easier in that regard. If an English teacher were to tell people that I/E/C rule actually applies, they shouldn't even be teaching it...

I don't really get what you mean - as in "each of you" is wrong?

French's silent letters aren't thaaat bad, mainly its just -ent at the end of a verb. I know duvet/ballet are from French but it's just that they pronounce "et" differently to us, not so much a silence, since neither "e" nor "t" alone make an "ay" sound. Colonel always got me though, and subtle. >_>

Author:  DNA [ Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Foreign Languages

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I don't really get what you mean - as in "each of you" is wrong?

"Each of you are wrong" would be wrong.
"Each of you is wrong" would be correct.

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