I believe it was best described when someone once called English the language that mugs other languages in back-alleys and rummages through their pockets for spare vocabulary and grammar
@Jeremiah Englishbro im french and no, im 15 and we learn to conjugate 2 words verbs that the second word could agree with an object if hes before the verb and if the first part is the good one.
Underrated comment! 🤣 As a French speaking person, I bet your everything that learning English is beyond difficult! 😅 And I HATE words that starts with a H!
@vere pani illethat’s not actually true though, English is considered one of the hardest simply because of spelling and grammar. Now the basics of learning English fairly easier than most, but much harder after that. So it’s easy to pick up at first, but extremely difficult to actually learn. If that makes sense. Usually learning a new language is extremely difficult at first, but after you learn the basics and patterns it gets significantly easier to actually form sentences. With English it’s the other way around.
As a second language learner, I confirm this is the case😂. I was told that English is so systematic but look at all the messes. The English pronunciation never makes sense
English is my first and only language and sometimes when I’m reading and come across a word that has more than one form of pronunciation and definition, I sometimes I have reread a sentence about three times before it makes sense because when I read it the first time I used a different pronunciation and was thinking of a different definition in my head. My favorite example of this is desert…depending on the context, you can talking about a dry area of land or you could talking about abandoning something or someone and each definition have difference pronunciations. The abandoning something one, the pronunciation is the same as the pronunciation for dessert (with two “s”), which is something, usually sweet, eaten after a main course/dinner. So I feel for non-English speakers learning English.
Ikr when I was 10 in an English class and nobody spoke English (I was better at grammar then even my teacher) and the whole class would always ask me for help I can say I got a headache from explaining stuff to at least 3 people at once 😀
@37_Putu Bagus Arjawa Kanji is Japanese... also languages' difficulty depend on your native language. English is harder than Chinese for a Korean or Japanese person, who would a similar language, while English is easier than Chinese for a Dutchman or a Swede, because English is similar to their languages
English doesn't borrow words from other languages, it chases them down dark allies, beats them up and goes through their pockets for syntax and spellings.
I see so much of myself in French, it hurts. Genuinely trying to learn and understand, even asking questions and being rewarded with emotional damage and a headache. Oh god the headaches.
Damn that was better than my explanation of “english is a language created by two people, one is overdosed on all the drugs at the same time, besides LSD just to make grammar, and the other person invented LSD and overdosed on it, and gallons of every alcohol, along with enough caffeine to give a water buffalo a heart attack, to create the spelling and pronunciation logic” Im going to quote you
@Enigma well you live right next door to one of the biggest English speaking countries in the world. It's why Spanish is easier for Americans to learn because of how often we're surrounded by it
Just saying as a French myself I’d rather relearn the entirety of the English language than my native language Edit: I’m a lucky one as I learned to properly speak English at just 5 months from my aunt
Even the word “neither” has too many ways to be pronounced Neither n - eye - v - er Neither n - ee - th - er (but with the “th” and “er” pronounced together to sound different..) Either eye - v - er Either ee - th - er (but once again with the “th” and “er? Pronounced together to sound a specific way)
@Your Little Insomniac yes good point! LoL! I'm always learning new things! I forget what it was now, but there was a word I pronounced wrong for years because I didn't say it out loud often, just read it. Finally said it out loud in front of the right person and they corrected me. English is confusing for all ages. 😆
@Mebh I'm Hungarian and when I was learning English we didn't even had to memorise any pronunciation rules, we just accepted that we have to learn it for each and every new word. I think it's true that English is not one language, but three different ones in a trenchcoat pretending to be one.😂
As a french, I would not have get that english prononciation is so messed up unless I heard the native speaker talk about it You listen to english, and then you'll naturaly learn the prononciation In french, there's also several ways to write a single sound, so I guess I just didn't notice while learning english
@HungarianGiraffe LOL yes! That's a perfect description! 😂 And yeah learning every word individually is unfortunately about all you can do. So much easier when it's your first language, but it has still confused me since I was old enough to talk! 😂 I actually know a french guy and a Romanian girl who speak better English then me because they don't use bad Grammer and stuff like I do. They have strong accents and make a mistake here and there but they seem to know more about English than I do because they worked so hard to learn it. How hard do you think it would be for an English speaker to learn Hungarian? Is it a difficult language?
As a native English speaker, I appreciate the ridiculous nature of the language. It makes sure anyone who wants to speak/read/write in it is willing to suspend some disbelief and just roll with the chaos.
English is one of those languages where once you learn 25% of it, magically the other 75% makes sense for no reason at all other than it has become common sense for you.
@Delai Lamahat they’re trying to say is rules and pronunciation r extremely inconsistent to the point where u could just learn words individually and maybe have better luck learning It’s just that typically u use phonetics for when u see a new word u dk, even then though an English speaker will most likely get a word right by following what they think it’d sound like in English over using logic
@AV_Kay No. What they are talking about is known as "whole word" method of learning to read. The phonics method of learning to read is superior. If you have kids and you want them to have the best results, you use the phonics method.
When my friend was learning Spanish, I had to teach her to not adjust pronunciations randomly like in English. I had to teach her to be phonetically consistent 😂
Spanish isn’t built of as many languages as English is. Hard to be consistent with words from: German, French, Greek, Latin, and a few just invented by English.
@Mincat that doesnt make a lot of sense. Something is relatable if you relate to it, by having the same experience, but if you never even realised it, how can you have the same experience as someone who does realise it.
yep....every language class in the US talks about this as if no one has ever thought of how English is difficult/confusing...he did really great to bring up something everyone knows and talks about every time they think about the English language. Really bright individual...can't believe he recognized something people have known for over a hundred years....great job he did. really thinking outside of the box and getting as creative as I'm sure he could ever be...lmfao. Language professors....only useful as translators for people who actually use their brains like: engineers, doctors, scientists, etc.
My ESL teacher was so annoyed with me because it didn't make sense. Her solution was say it and Wright it enough you'll get used to it, I can't explain why it's that way.
As a not native English speaker I can say: English is easy compared to other languages. Portuguese, for example, have so much rules you'd never get it. We have like 12 different words with the same damn meaning and each word is applicable depending of pronom, verbal time and plural or singular.
The funny thing is that French played a big part in the great vowel shift, which altered how we pronounce our words and why we have odd spelling patterns
English is easy, you tend to grow up being surrounded by it if you have any interest in pop culture. Don't try to make up to be some high level skill to grasp.
Relatable. The English language makes sense because it makes sense, even if this explanation doesn’t make sense, the pronunciation makes sense because it’s easy for the brain to process. 😅
@Phillip Erasmusmericans speak great English and some of the greatest writers of the English language are American. It’s also our form of English that is the standard for new learners and it’s the american form of English that is used all over the internet, so be real.
As an Italian who loves to read in English, I'm always a bit frustrated that any time I encounter a new word I have to check how to pronounce it. Italian is super consistent. Any first grader, at the end of the school year, could (should be able to) read and write any new word. And that's why we don't have any spelling competition. 😁
Same with Finnish. Super systematic, but also syllabic (so example syllable "mik" is always pronounced the same no matter the word) and children usually learn to read and write before end of the first school year. Only problem with Finnish is that we have like 14 grammatical cases and learning to use them right takes time. But usually kids who have been read to a lot (bedtime stories and such) before school age have quite a solid grasp of the more common cases at 1st grade. The clause is that while certain logic in cases conjugation fits with words A and B, it doesn't go with word C _even_ if it sounds similar/ends in similar fashion, and kids just have to learn to remember the exceptions... 😅
Get use to it meaning is given by context. Learn enough to understand the minimum amount then you will learn the rest even if it may be rough. For context I am trying to learn German and french , my second language is English. I am using it daily and it got bad now that my inner dialogue became mostly English. ;D My mothertounge isn't related to any core european language.
Same with Spanish. When I was a kid I remember watching The Simpsons and wondering why they would do spelling contests... I thought it was SO easy. Now I get it.
In Polish this also is rarely the problem. For non Polish speaker it's hard to pronounce words, but not because you don't know how to read them. You mostly read the same as you write.
Honestly, English is my first language and sometimes I STILL have to look up new words to know how they're pronounced. There's nothing more annoying than saying a word out loud that you've only ever seen written, and getting weird looks from everyone in the room.
My english teacher was straightforward with us about that. "A lot of times english pronunciation doesnt make sense, so don't get too attached to rules, focus on listening and practicing". Best advice she could ever give, it made things a lot easier.
It aint no thing No, it isn't a conspiracy. The printing press cemented English spelling just as the sound changes of Early Modern English occurred/started occurring. So the pronunciation changed, but the spelling stayed the same.
also, most native english speakers (the ones with half a brain, anyway) will understand what you mean regardless, at least here in 'murica. since there's a lot of non-native english speakers here anyway, a lot of us are used to hearing mispronounced words. and if a native english speaker does still make fun of you, remind them that you're at least bi/multilingual, while they (probably) aren't.
I think it's pretty consistent. You just gotta accept that sometimes the rules are bent because there are a metric fuck ton of words that are just lifted from other languages at some point or another. That does admittedly get more confusing because of the slow morphing of pronunciation across different dialects and eras over time.
French: strange exceptions to every rule
English: there is no rule; embrace the chaos
I believe it was best described when someone once called English the language that mugs other languages in back-alleys and rummages through their pockets for spare vocabulary and grammar
@PeterDivineyeah I read that comment too. Laughed my ass off reading that.
So true
T-shirt worthy. Yes, humans are the source of all choas. Why should language be different?
@PeterDivine pretty much dead accurate as English will happily take from French , German , Latin , Greek and Scandinavian languages
French: Why would you do this?
English: YOU did this to me!!!
Don't forget German and Latin
@Jeremiah English No, French influence did this.
@ScrapBandit do you realize the English language has more than French roots?
@Jeremiah Englishbro im french and no, im 15 and we learn to conjugate 2 words verbs that the second word could agree with an object if hes before the verb and if the first part is the good one.
Le français c trop dur à comprendre
He plays that French character so good Lol
Behind every Englishman there is a French ancestor 😅😂😂
he is french ...
@Baptist Luypaert So That's why Lol
Well*
@RobinHe didn't mean well wdym?
You don't learn English, you memorize it.
Same as chess
@Con_El_Maestrou memorise the rules yes, like everything else😑
Facts! I remember our teacher teaching us different words and how to pronounce them on a whole ass blackboard.
That’s a whole fact!
Underrated comment! 🤣 As a French speaking person, I bet your everything that learning English is beyond difficult! 😅 And I HATE words that starts with a H!
Sometimes I take for granted how lucky I am to be born speaking English
Granted that easiest language is ur mother tongue?
@vere pani illeapparently its not the easiest. Indonesian is classed as the easiest
@vere pani illethat’s not actually true though, English is considered one of the hardest simply because of spelling and grammar. Now the basics of learning English fairly easier than most, but much harder after that. So it’s easy to pick up at first, but extremely difficult to actually learn. If that makes sense. Usually learning a new language is extremely difficult at first, but after you learn the basics and patterns it gets significantly easier to actually form sentences. With English it’s the other way around.
When I look back at my studies. I'm amazed how I could accept the chaos
@Antonio Ivanov have u studied both indonesian and english?
When I was an English teacher, my korean students used to ask me why. I said ‘ i didnt make it so i dont know either.’
I am learning korean and I ask WHY most if the time🥴 so learning any foreign language is same I guess🤗
French : I don't get it
English : neither do we
y e s
Facts
so true
Go vegan to save animals.
@Jameson Cutler what about vegetarian? thats what i am
"You don't learn English. You memorize it"-Once said a wise random Clip-Share commenter
Aka EricSorensin
*EricSorensen*
No. You butcher it every time you speak, and the one you speak with just figure it out
I swear this guy's a genius for compiling all the absurdities in these languages
Truly, English is a matter of, “If you know, you know…”
Literally 😭😭
I, uh, no-
@z Ed😂😂😂
Go vegan to save animals.
@Jameson Cutler🥓
This guy needs a oscar😂💀
an oscar
Better than anything on Netflix
Ah the ole Gallagher bit. Classic.
French ate at eight but his hate for extra height and weight must wait because it’s great to eat! 😂😂😂😂
Nice! 😂👍
🎉 awesome
How dare you
Perfect for French ❤
It makes no sense if you don't know.
It also makes no sense when you do 😂.
Don't mind me, just laughing my jaw off while playing the video on loop 😂🤣🤣🤣
I'm English and I'm now realizing how fucked our language is
English: Let's confuse the french, they started it
French really shouldn't have been bragging about confusing the Americans.
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂😂
I mean their ancestors are partially at fault for some of this
@Gavin Brown we created partially English
Fakta: Bahasa Inggris tidak untuk dipelajari, tapi diingat dan dihafalkan!
This is me trying to learn French! 😂💀
English: there are literally no rules, just memorize every word
Online dictionary is a godsend for audio pronunciation
English language enters the chat: yel I've got 5 million words about counting, enjoy.
Yes just...
exactly 💯
Which in the ass coming from a language that has clear and strict rules for spelling
You don't learn English, you memorize it
Why does the French guy always come across as an adorable younger brother when he asks English guy for help? I kinda want to give him a hug.
As a second language learner, I confirm this is the case😂. I was told that English is so systematic but look at all the messes. The English pronunciation never makes sense
Whoever told you English is systematic is a liar. It's literally the most inconsistent language haha
@Adam Abdelfattah the grammar is more or less consistant, but the spelling and pronunciation are the language equivalent of alphabet soup
English is my first and only language and sometimes when I’m reading and come across a word that has more than one form of pronunciation and definition, I sometimes I have reread a sentence about three times before it makes sense because when I read it the first time I used a different pronunciation and was thinking of a different definition in my head. My favorite example of this is desert…depending on the context, you can talking about a dry area of land or you could talking about abandoning something or someone and each definition have difference pronunciations. The abandoning something one, the pronunciation is the same as the pronunciation for dessert (with two “s”), which is something, usually sweet, eaten after a main course/dinner. So I feel for non-English speakers learning English.
I already abandoned the thought "English must be systematic" and just rely on my instinct or how it sounds
@Adam Abdelfattah There are far more inconsistent languages out there.
*inserts that video of a cat speaking French* mer mur meer mure
English is like 5 different languages hiding in a trenchcoat.
you don't realize how hard your language is until you have to teach it 💀
I tried to explain basic spelling to a 2nd grader once and I confirm I lost understanding of English myself
Facts.
True
if you know tamil!!!!!
😃😃😃😃
Ikr when I was 10 in an English class and nobody spoke English (I was better at grammar then even my teacher) and the whole class would always ask me for help I can say I got a headache from explaining stuff to at least 3 people at once 😀
Pov: french people at their firt English class
My man channeled his inner Gallager
Learning to read English is almost like learning Kanji, you basically have to remember how everything sound
I heard harder chinese language than english bru😅
@37_Putu Bagus Arjawa Kanji is Japanese...
also languages' difficulty depend on your native language. English is harder than Chinese for a Korean or Japanese person, who would a similar language, while English is easier than Chinese for a Dutchman or a Swede, because English is similar to their languages
I don't think so. Kanji seems to need memory, whereas English pronunciation works on intuition
@Azeara Azymoto okay, there is memory involved. Pronunciation gets pretty random sometimes. I wouldn't call it Kanji levels of memorization though
@silver atractickanji is Chinese origin. Japanese adopted it to their own language as writing system because they didn't have one before.
Addressing him as English, is the funniest part.
🤣🤣🤣This is so friggin true!!🤯
English doesn't borrow words from other languages, it chases them down dark allies, beats them up and goes through their pockets for syntax and spellings.
This made me laugh way harder than it should have
@patrick morrey Agreed!
😂😅😂😅😂
This is fucking great, you should make t shirts
English is not about being smart; it’s about memorising 💀
French dude was bouta slamdunk english into a *QUASO*
One does not just speak English,
English speaks you.
So many Russian oligarchs in London, englishmen are now making Soviet Russia jokes...
@Jean Roch 😂 lol
In Soviet Russia Russian speaks you
Ain’t that the god damned truth 😤😤😤
Like in Soviet Russia 😅
As an ESL student I have to say, English isn’t that hard to be honest, just memorize all the common words and you’ll be fine
You don’t learn English, you memorize it
Gosh gotta love French, he is asking questions that did not even cross my mind. I share your videos with my English Teacher.
Wait you actually share it???
@undisclosed_ You mean shair it, like sh and air.
I share some of them with a friend who is a teacher 😁
@Павлина Желева Is he a teechur, you said? Chur like from church.
@undisclosed_ Well yes, I was in school in the 90s and I have been in touch with her since.
When you're language is based of every major language in the world and has English as its base
That's what happens when you mix like 10 different languages while also mixing those languages with each other
You don't get English, English gets you, has it's way with you and leaves you broken and defeated.
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I will never complain about how hard it is to learn a second language cuz English is a straight up crime
People who are born speaking English are just super lucky to know one of the hardest languages in the workd
Poor French was so enthusiastic about learning 😭
452 like and no comments, let me fix that
@Abdul Mannanno no its cannon
Tell me about it 💀
I see so much of myself in French, it hurts.
Genuinely trying to learn and understand, even asking questions and being rewarded with emotional damage and a headache. Oh god the headaches.
That wall needs an Oscar 💀
My english teacher once told me that in english there is only one rule. And that rule is, dont think, be chaotic.
What does chaotic means?
@Sapna Singhin a state of complete confusion and disorder.
and when someone makes a typo on the internet they'll start a war in the comments lmao
@Danielz sozenlthat is absolutely applicable to english what is this language. this is why teaching the sound it out method is dumb
and have good memory.
The English really went, "To conquer the world let's baffle them with bullshit!"
The French should be the last to talk with all those silent letters 😂
"English isn't a language, it's three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat."
Thats so true tho
This is the most underrated comment
Damn that was better than my explanation of “english is a language created by two people, one is overdosed on all the drugs at the same time, besides LSD just to make grammar, and the other person invented LSD and overdosed on it, and gallons of every alcohol, along with enough caffeine to give a water buffalo a heart attack, to create the spelling and pronunciation logic”
Im going to quote you
Just 3
@quinnfr😂😂😂
Nobody will ever top Gallagher's version.
French is the last language to question phonetics
As a native speaker, I never realized how hard English was😂
True
Well I'm a native Quebecan French speaker and I found English to be easier to learn than French and easier to think with it too.
@Enigma well you live right next door to one of the biggest English speaking countries in the world. It's why Spanish is easier for Americans to learn because of how often we're surrounded by it
Thats fine, ive found that most English only speakers can't speak English either
Just saying as a French myself I’d rather relearn the entirety of the English language than my native language
Edit: I’m a lucky one as I learned to properly speak English at just 5 months from my aunt
I'm not dyslexic I was just born into the wrong language 😂
Us English speakers:: "They will never know our next move...and neither will we"
If neigh is pronounced like nay, it’s pronounced like nayther, right?
*No-*
The English even try to battle against the enemy with their linguistic 'ambush' rules!😂
The perfect predator.
Even the word “neither” has too many ways to be pronounced
Neither n - eye - v - er
Neither n - ee - th - er (but with the “th” and “er” pronounced together to sound different..)
Either eye - v - er
Either ee - th - er (but once again with the “th” and “er? Pronounced together to sound a specific way)
I actually WAS down on the floor on
NEITHER DO WE!!!
As someone who had the chaos of learning English as a second language I can relate
The English language is 5 languages in a trench coat in a dark ally mugging you for pocket change
Sorry french. We native English speakers feel pretty much the same way when learning how to spell and pronounce things as kids. 😂😂😂
Even as adults! You'll find new words written down and just have to take your best shot at it until you get corrected.
@Your Little Insomniac yes good point! LoL! I'm always learning new things! I forget what it was now, but there was a word I pronounced wrong for years because I didn't say it out loud often, just read it. Finally said it out loud in front of the right person and they corrected me. English is confusing for all ages. 😆
@Mebh I'm Hungarian and when I was learning English we didn't even had to memorise any pronunciation rules, we just accepted that we have to learn it for each and every new word. I think it's true that English is not one language, but three different ones in a trenchcoat pretending to be one.😂
As a french, I would not have get that english prononciation is so messed up unless I heard the native speaker talk about it
You listen to english, and then you'll naturaly learn the prononciation
In french, there's also several ways to write a single sound, so I guess I just didn't notice while learning english
@HungarianGiraffe LOL yes! That's a perfect description! 😂
And yeah learning every word individually is unfortunately about all you can do. So much easier when it's your first language, but it has still confused me since I was old enough to talk! 😂 I actually know a french guy and a Romanian girl who speak better English then me because they don't use bad Grammer and stuff like I do. They have strong accents and make a mistake here and there but they seem to know more about English than I do because they worked so hard to learn it.
How hard do you think it would be for an English speaker to learn Hungarian? Is it a difficult language?
Bro is actually from France and knows English 😂😂😂
Just wait until French realizes that English is just three languages in the trench coat
As a native English speaker, I appreciate the ridiculous nature of the language. It makes sure anyone who wants to speak/read/write in it is willing to suspend some disbelief and just roll with the chaos.
This channel makes fun of French and Spanish often too, it’s not like English is the only one with quirks.
lol never try french nor german you'll rethink about the defintion of chaos
As a french, let me introduce you to silent letters
@Nelson Sorhaindo Why?
@Science Freak LOL Look up Twain's single sentence German article.
Now french knows how i feel when my teacher asks what gender my pencil is.
English is one of those languages where once you learn 25% of it, magically the other 75% makes sense for no reason at all other than it has become common sense for you.
As my English teachers told me: don't try to find any logic of pronunciation, just learn each word individually.
That's a terrible way to learn to read. Phonics is the superior method.
Well that explains a lot 😂
@Delai Lamahat they’re trying to say is rules and pronunciation r extremely inconsistent to the point where u could just learn words individually and maybe have better luck learning
It’s just that typically u use phonetics for when u see a new word u dk, even then though an English speaker will most likely get a word right by following what they think it’d sound like in English over using logic
@AV_Kay No. What they are talking about is known as "whole word" method of learning to read. The phonics method of learning to read is superior.
If you have kids and you want them to have the best results, you use the phonics method.
i learned through watching English cartoons when i was little
Well that’s what happens when your language is actually a bunch of languages hiding in a trench coat
A mistake French made:
Never draw with a sharpie on the wall
When my friend was learning Spanish, I had to teach her to not adjust pronunciations randomly like in English. I had to teach her to be phonetically consistent 😂
That's why I failed Spanish.
Consistency is unAmerican😂
Spanish isn’t built of as many languages as English is. Hard to be consistent with words from: German, French, Greek, Latin, and a few just invented by English.
@Nick V Spanish has a mix with ,Latin ,greek ,Iberian and Arabic. It has its mix in the pot to deal with.
Es muy frustrante. He pasado por eso.
- di "O"
- ow
- prueba alargando la "O"
- oooooooooo...
- y ahora para en seco
- ...oooow
The weird thing is that as a german, where those problems nearly don't exist, I never struggled with those things or thought about it.
As a English person I can totally agree 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣
As an English speaker I didn’t realize how true this is. 100/10 relatable😂
How is it relatable if you never realised it. Jesus
@👋🏼 shiftynow that they have realized it it is now relatable.
@Mincat that doesnt make a lot of sense. Something is relatable if you relate to it, by having the same experience, but if you never even realised it, how can you have the same experience as someone who does realise it.
@👋🏼 shiftyit can still be relatable after noticing how weirdly English works, and understanding the language.
I was today years old when I realized how difficult English could be
I just want to hear him say "you have disturbed the dirt"
His performance is everything... he deserves to get a gig from it
yep....every language class in the US talks about this as if no one has ever thought of how English is difficult/confusing...he did really great to bring up something everyone knows and talks about every time they think about the English language. Really bright individual...can't believe he recognized something people have known for over a hundred years....great job he did. really thinking outside of the box and getting as creative as I'm sure he could ever be...lmfao. Language professors....only useful as translators for people who actually use their brains like: engineers, doctors, scientists, etc.
He's a musical actor
@Matt S ok
@Matt S You want a medal or something?
@Falcon Windblade no but this guy deserves one for being so original and creative...such a great video 10/10
Me In a nutshell In english class:
My English Teacher used to tell us that English isn’t a language, it’s 4 languages stacked on top of eachother in a trench coat
Hahahah that is a good way of putting it
Definitely feels like it at times.
That’s the most accurate description I’ve ever heard.
Accurate
This one is smarter than most my students
My ESL teacher was so annoyed with me because it didn't make sense. Her solution was say it and Wright it enough you'll get used to it, I can't explain why it's that way.
we just pronounce words based on their vibe
*Smiles in etymology nerd because I know why English is so chaotic*
English is that one weird kid who makes up his own rules, and makes it hard for everyone.
As an English speaker i want to apologize to everyone who is trying to learn English.
We just do broken english
As a not native English speaker I can say: English is easy compared to other languages. Portuguese, for example, have so much rules you'd never get it. We have like 12 different words with the same damn meaning and each word is applicable depending of pronom, verbal time and plural or singular.
I'm Polish trying to learn English :D
As an Englander, I apologise for nothing! Embrace the chaos that is our language!
English is quite easy to learn honestly
This was exactly me and my nephew when he was in first grade. Gave me existential crisis.
The funny thing is that French played a big part in the great vowel shift, which altered how we pronounce our words and why we have odd spelling patterns
English: Never let them know your next move.
English took it to another level 🤣🤣
(Cont'd) English:.... because we also don't know our next move
English: you cant mind game me if i dont have a mind
I am your 420th like. Savor this moment
Portuguese: Amateurs
As someone who's first language is English, I often have moments where words simply don't seem like words- just strange sounds of gibberish.
Anyone who learns English as a second language is an actual gigachad and should be appreciated
You don't know what chaos is always happening in Russian language, as a second language English should be a lot easier
Ye
as a 3rd language English I am not surprised anymore
I'm Italian bro
English is easy, you tend to grow up being surrounded by it if you have any interest in pop culture. Don't try to make up to be some high level skill to grasp.
This is 90% of the reasons my dyslexic ass couldn’t spell stuff right till 6th grade
That's why Hindi is always best
As an American, I have no idea how to explain English to non English speakers
Relatable. The English language makes sense because it makes sense, even if this explanation doesn’t make sense, the pronunciation makes sense because it’s easy for the brain to process. 😅
Americans barely speak English anyway...😅
Uhh, actually we don't really care about Americans?! 😅🤧
@amoldivo but you bothered to comment. yeah, ok. Americans live in your head rent free.
@Phillip Erasmusmericans speak great English and some of the greatest writers of the English language are American. It’s also our form of English that is the standard for new learners and it’s the american form of English that is used all over the internet, so be real.
In the wise words of Churchill himself:
*it just works*
The only thing that made sense was the Frenchman giving up.
As an Italian who loves to read in English, I'm always a bit frustrated that any time I encounter a new word I have to check how to pronounce it.
Italian is super consistent. Any first grader, at the end of the school year, could (should be able to) read and write any new word. And that's why we don't have any spelling competition. 😁
Same with Finnish.
Super systematic, but also syllabic (so example syllable "mik" is always pronounced the same no matter the word) and children usually learn to read and write before end of the first school year.
Only problem with Finnish is that we have like 14 grammatical cases and learning to use them right takes time. But usually kids who have been read to a lot (bedtime stories and such) before school age have quite a solid grasp of the more common cases at 1st grade.
The clause is that while certain logic in cases conjugation fits with words A and B, it doesn't go with word C _even_ if it sounds similar/ends in similar fashion, and kids just have to learn to remember the exceptions... 😅
Get use to it meaning is given by context. Learn enough to understand the minimum amount then you will learn the rest even if it may be rough.
For context I am trying to learn German and french , my second language is English.
I am using it daily and it got bad now that my inner dialogue became mostly English. ;D
My mothertounge isn't related to any core european language.
Same with Spanish. When I was a kid I remember watching The Simpsons and wondering why they would do spelling contests... I thought it was SO easy. Now I get it.
In Polish this also is rarely the problem.
For non Polish speaker it's hard to pronounce words, but not because you don't know how to read them.
You mostly read the same as you write.
Honestly, English is my first language and sometimes I STILL have to look up new words to know how they're pronounced. There's nothing more annoying than saying a word out loud that you've only ever seen written, and getting weird looks from everyone in the room.
People from different countries really just don't understand our language 😂😂
so cutely he says English in the begining
My english teacher was straightforward with us about that. "A lot of times english pronunciation doesnt make sense, so don't get too attached to rules, focus on listening and practicing".
Best advice she could ever give, it made things a lot easier.
Yes, don't think about it. Just use the words that you already know, adding a few words here and there.
house
mouse
ladder
...
It is what it is ;-)
It aint no thing No, it isn't a conspiracy. The printing press cemented English spelling just as the sound changes of Early Modern English occurred/started occurring. So the pronunciation changed, but the spelling stayed the same.
Cough,dough,rough,bough,through,trough......what insanity!!!!
also, most native english speakers (the ones with half a brain, anyway) will understand what you mean regardless, at least here in 'murica. since there's a lot of non-native english speakers here anyway, a lot of us are used to hearing mispronounced words.
and if a native english speaker does still make fun of you, remind them that you're at least bi/multilingual, while they (probably) aren't.
I think it's pretty consistent. You just gotta accept that sometimes the rules are bent because there are a metric fuck ton of words that are just lifted from other languages at some point or another. That does admittedly get more confusing because of the slow morphing of pronunciation across different dialects and eras over time.
I’ve always wondered why we don’t have a system of accent marks like French or Japanese.
I was waiting for him to write
Fight
And ask, this is EIGHT and how it becomes FIGHT
Us English speakers underestimate how strange English is
Oh no we are aware we just like to watch as yall try to decipher the chaos that is english
I didn't realize until I started watching these shorts. That's also this other video reciting a confusing english poem
Dude, the word “fridge” has a D in it, but the word refrigerator doesn’t. That’s how messed up it is.
I legit have a problem with English n I only speak English soooooo........
I height it
I have never related to someone about English so much
Bro was roasted english in a minute 😂