Do you fine the English language frustrating, and if so what parts of it?
I’m making this thread because I’m just curious.
Not really… I speak and write English better than my mother tongue since I’ve been learning/using it for an eternity however it’s also my countries official language(so schools offices etc)…
Comparing it to learning german, English is a breeze
The xyz
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Der,die,das and those 3 also have family members that make things more complicated
to me, it’s definitely the misalignment between phonetics and lexemes. english isn’t very consistent in describing the sounds in a language, which makes it somewhat arbitrary. often, the only way to know how to spell and pronounce a word is by having seen it before
it's also very rich in things like idioms and other culture specific words so knowing a wide range of vocab is pretty hard
english is my 3rd language, but i don't feel like it's frustrating. i've studied english since i was 4 or 5 so it's not that bad.
maybe the tenses? like past tense, future tense, sometimes i got confused, using the right verbs. and nouns. the gender specific ones, since bahasa barely have any in it.
the UK/US spelling. I first learn english from an out of school language learning program. The 3 teacher's I had were from UK/AUS/NZ..... And during school (1st grade) we had a spelling test I got a 9/10 and the incorrect word was colour. My teacher said we're doing US spelling AFTER the test. color - colour.
Move to australia (3rd grade) we had a spelling test, again got 9/10 and the incorrect word was organization. Australia follows UK spelling, and the correct word is organisation.
Got robbed of full marks 100%. English should just use 1 spelling form.