English is the hardest language to learn
Bruno wrote:
"I believes English is hardest language to learn. I am German but how is it that Germans is always saying how English is so easy..."
He should have written:
"I believes English is THE hardest language to learn. I am German but how is it that Germans ARE always saying how English is so easy..."
Are you really German, Bruno? Because the mistakes you make here are very unnatural for a native German speaker, as English corresponds very well with German in these cases.
<< He should have written:
"I believes English is THE hardest language to learn. I am German but how is it that Germans ARE always saying how English is so easy..." >>
Or even 'I believe English is...' (yes, I know you knew that ^_-)
"Are you really German, Bruno? Because the mistakes you make here are very unnatural for a native German speaker, as English corresponds very well with German in these cases. "
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He's bound to make mistakes. He thinks English is the hardest language to learn.
English has a lot of idioms and many strange phrasal verbs which are very common in common speech. They are very difficult to learn.
But there are so many verbs in English you can avoid Phrasal verbs.
It also uses a lot of illogical Abbreviations.
And the spelling is very inconsistent in English.
Other than those problems, English is much easier than many other Non-European Languages.
Unfortunately, Romance Languages and Germanic Languages and Nordic Languages except Finnish are all much easier than English.
So English is much harder than most common European Languages.
lol, yes, you're right, Benjamin!
Perhaps he really is German and just omits features of grammar that he thinks is solely German.
I've experienced the same thing with a German who wanted to learn Norwegian and incorrectly used features of English syntax because she thought that German syntax was solely German.
I see that Bruno is very correct with his claim. I have been learning German for a very many numbers of years and still have many problems in learning this very difficult language. I say that I am fluent in conversational English yet I know I'm not perfect by any straining of the imagination. Just look at some of the terrible errors in this post from people claiming that English is not hard to learn!
Ach komm Horst, was behauptest du denn? Jeder Deutsche kann Englisch ganz ohne Probleme erlernen. Und wieso fügst du in deinen Posts soviele unnötige 'S's hinzu? Du spinnst wohl!
« Perhaps he really is German and just omits features of grammar that he thinks is solely German.
I've experienced the same thing with a German who wanted to learn Norwegian and incorrectly used features of English syntax because she thought that German syntax was solely German. »
Lol, that's like how I sometimes accidentally say the adjective *after* the noun in German (like in French) because I sort of go into 'foreign language mode'.
Dear Guest, I thinking Horst's English is still very good. You shouldn't be writing in German, otherwise he will not improve. I'm also thinking that actually you (Horst) meant that you have been learning English for many years, not German which is your mother tongue. Lol, my sides are rolling at the thought!
Thordaak
Mit seinem schrecklichen Englisch ist Horst wirklich eine Ausnahme unter den Deutschen, da fast alle super Englisch können.
Guest,
I don't think that is true. I think in fact that the reverse is true, in that English are better German speakers than Germans are English speakers.
Thord
*** ....the.....English are better German speakers than Germans are English speakers....***
Guten tag. Wie geht es Ihnen? Das ist gut!
I'd love to see concrete proof that that is really true. Forgive me for doubting that statement as the (comparatively few) Germans I've personally encountered have all spoken (for the most part) word perfect English (accent discounted). I can't recall ever having met an English (ok....to be fair, a British) person equally conversant in German. Maybe I need to get out more ( but I do, I do! - it's just I've never met up with a Brit who was fluent in German. Perhaps I have, but s/he never dazzled me with her/his skills linguistic skills in that Language.
Please bear in mind that there is a steady decline in the learning of foreign Languages in Britain. Wie schade!
Aufwiedersehen
Damian
While Germans usually speak English well, I disagree that they tend to be word perfect (although of course the ones you met might well have been). There seem to be certain typical errors that they find hard to iron out, the most obvious being incorrect use of the tenses. I don't think they are as renowned for speaking extremely good English in the way that the Dutch and Scandinavians are.
Damian wrote:
<<Maybe I need to get out more ( but I do, I do! - it's just I've never met up with a Brit who was fluent in German.>>
I'm sure you do, mate! It's not very often that a Briton, enjoying a pint together with a fellow Briton in a public ale house asks:
- Did I mention that I speak wonderful German? Shouldn't we just continue our conversation about rainy weather, Mr Blair and Sheffield Wednesday's in German, oder was denkst du, Kumpel?
lol...
« Did I mention that I speak wonderful German? Shouldn't we just continue our conversation about rainy weather, Mr Blair and Sheffield Wednesday's in German, oder was denkst du, Kumpel?
lol... »
Lol, that sounds like me — randomly saying phrases in German that I assume English speakers can understand. It seems to really annoy some people, for some reason.