On October 22 2011 20:43 HaXXspetten wrote: Is it just me, or is the bracket designed in a way that will give Stephano or Marineking a free ticket to the finals?
thorzain/elfi/sjow/cloud are obviously all scrubs who'll roll over and die amirite?
On October 22 2011 20:29 Lasbike wrote: Is he serious ? English is probably the easiest language ever.
I don't speak any other languages, but I've always heard that English a notoriously hard language...?
English is hard because of all the weird exceptions to rules and words with multiple meanings and like DOA is saying, a bunch of filler article words.
Rofl , try french xDDD
Im a German native who is studying both French and English. Just let me say that much: English is pretty easy at the beginning, but I think its really hard to master escpecially when it comes to pronunciation. The difficult thing about the last part is, imo, to choose which accent (i.e. AmE, BE, AE etc) you want to go for and stick with it. Its very easy for a German to mix accents or to, in general, to sound like a pretentious douchebag when trying to talk "proper" English. Also, as someone pointed out, there is no clear graph-sound correspondence in English, which means that there are a lot of different combinations of letters which correspond to just a single sound and vice versa. When it comes to grammer, I think French is much harder than English (could even be compared to German in terms of difficulty). In French the pronunciation is way more straight forward than in English.
I could go on and on, but this is not the thread for it. Interesting topic though
On October 22 2011 20:43 HaXXspetten wrote: Is it just me, or is the bracket designed in a way that will give Stephano or Marineking a free ticket to the finals?
That would be a sick finals.
MC vs MKP, Thorzain or Stephano would be nice too.
On October 22 2011 20:35 Toxi78 wrote: english is one of the easiest languages to learn, if not the easiest. anyone that disagrees knows nothing about languages.
I spoke to two linguists, one a professor at a prestigious school in Japan. According to them, English is one of the most complex languages. Do with that what you will.
and i speak french german and english, did you expect linguists to tell you that what they study is the most simple language in the world ? english is clearly not one of the most complex languages, and it's the easiest one to learn. did you guys seriously get hurt in your ego because we said that english is easy to learn? reality check, talking your own language doesn't make you einstein.
On October 22 2011 20:40 mighty_honour_korea wrote:
On October 22 2011 20:35 Toxi78 wrote: english is one of the easiest languages to learn, if not the easiest. anyone that disagrees knows nothing about languages.
I spoke to two linguists, one a professor at a prestigious school in Japan. According to them, English is one of the most complex languages. Do with that what you will.
and i speak french german and english, did you expect linguists to tell you that what they study is the most simple language in the world ? english is clearly not one of the most complex languages, and it's the easiest one to learn. did you guys seriously get hurt in your ego because we said that english is easy to learn? reality check, talking your own language doesn't make you einstein.
Actualy English being easy is its advantage, not the oposite. You should be glad its that way, it makes native enlish speakers life much easier.
[QUOTE]On October 22 2011 20:52 bgx wrote: [QUOTE]On October 22 2011 20:37 Sinedd wrote: [QUOTE]On October 22 2011 20:32 27raven wrote: [QUOTE]On October 22 2011 20:30 MrSexington wrote: [QUOTE]On October 22 2011 20:29 Lasbike wrote: Is he serious ? English is probably the easiest language ever.[/QUOTE]
I don't speak any other languages, but I've always heard that English a notoriously hard language...?[/QUOTE]
Nah, try czech ;P. I find german harder than english too.[/QUOTE] english is like the easiest language to learn imo
try learning polish [/QUOTE] german and english are comparable, english is just so popular and you see it everywhere, both are kinda easy, both are Germanic and have similarities
very true. it depends on your own mother tongue whether you perceive English or another foreign language as easy or difficult. German and English have the same roots (Germanic language). if I were Italian,e.g., I would surely consider French to be easier than English (Romance languages)
and also, a very important reason why so many people think English is easy in general and easy to learn, is because English is the language which is being taught the most all alround the world and we are constantly surrounded with it in our everyday lives.