I know 3 languages, German and French are both easier then English. And English is my mother tongue.
I know 3 languages, German and French are both easier then English. And English is my mother tongue.
Memorizing genders in German is very easy with a mnemomic method. Learning it has frankly been a walk in the park, everything is orderly and put together in discernible components.
I don't know about German but French? easier than English? Come on!
How can you be a native speaker and not understand Your vs You're or its vs it's?
> Or the fact that half our words are German and the other half are French.
Quite a few of the basic ones come from old Nordic I think. : )
How did you really learn all the German (and French I guess) genders?
I guess you either grew up in a multilingual home and as such doesn't represent the majority of us or you are incredibly gifted or just trolling.
Learning genders is easy. It's just a memory game. And most people now and days don't really care if you mess it up.
English is mostly old Germanic.
Out of the 50 most used English words, all but one are from Anglo-Saxon. Out of the top 200, all but 13 are from Anglo-Saxon. On the other hand, out of the entirety of the English vocabulary, only a small portion of them are Anglo-Saxon. English has a Germanic core but has borrowed happily from other Indo-European languages.
I hope I'm representing these numbers right. Been listening to the History of English podcast [1] which, if you like this stuff, is absolutely fascinating. The first episode is worth listening to just to hear Old and Middle English spoken.
That's on you.
English needs to /steal/ and should have stolen in all such cases. Sure, take how the thing is said and even the meaning, but strictly adhere to a single simple set of rules without exceptions for encoding that verbal language to written form and for decoding it back to speech.