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Cossty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Since I was a kid, I was always told that English is one of the easiest languages to learn. I learned it primarily from movies, shows and videogames. School wasn’t very helpful in that regard. My usage of the language is almost exclusively for listening and reading, I speak in it very sparsely. Nobody in my vicinity uses it. So I wouldn’t consider myself to be fluent because I have no idea how my conversation with native speaker would go. If I catch myself, I try to think in it every chance I get.

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themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve messed with Spanish, Italian, German, and Swahili. It is not my opinion that these languages are more difficult to learn than English, even with the reduced pronouns and gendered nouns.

I think you’re doing great.

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labbbb@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I agree that English is the easiest language, there are fewer rules than in Russian. And the difficult ones, it seems to me, are Arabic and Chinese

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- PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  English can be difficult for western Europeans because it is the mutant child of both Germanic and Latin based languages that picks and chooses which words and rules to use at random.
  
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  - kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Every (almost) language uses words and rules at random compared to what you grew up in. It’s jist how human brain works IMO.
    
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