• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I honestly feel bad for anyone who has to learn English as anything other than their first language. I don’t know if there’s any other languages where there are so many exceptions to every rule of pronunciation, spelling, and grammar.

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      7 days ago

      It’s oddly easy to learn once you’ve got the basics, I haven’t learned a third language but I did start actively communicating in English just by playing Minecraft.

      I suspect it’s because of verbs, you just have two or three words for each verb and just add “-d”, “-ed”, " have" or “had” on them.
      In romance languages conjugations vary depending on context/time, first/second/third person, whether the subject is singular or plurar and their gender.