learning english is a beast undertaking, and so the critics might wanna rethink their insults unless they speak a foreign language or two themselves. one of the most complex languages in the world, and there isn't a single "rule" that isn't broken multiple times throughout the whole thing. Skinnydrumma wrote: as a university english major, i can say with great authority that english is.retarded. Don't get me started on spelling, homonyms and homophones. Speaking and pronouncing are fine but it's the rules that make english difficult to learn. Plural of moose is moose, plural of goose is geese? House -> houses, mouse -> mice? Why? There's no one rule to go by, so you have to pick things up as you go along.
English is my first language but I can recognize the silliness. Understand one and you start to recognize patterns and learning subsequent ones becomes easier. What makes english so confusing is all of the exceptions to the "rules" out there. We take words from other languages and cram them into our own and they all have different rules. Maybe some pronounciations are tricky, but that's it.Įnglish is complex.
So no, I'm sorry, but english isn't complex. I'm from France and speak english, spanish and creole. Hell japanese kids can't read a newspaper well in college since the language is complex. German or especially japanese and russian are trully hard. If english was really one of the most complex languages in the world, it wouldn't be one of the most spoken.